News archive on the topic "Navy"

Russian officers are demanding that the Project 80 Akula nuclear-powered missile submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy, built in the early 941s, be preserved. It was withdrawn from the Russian Navy in February of this year and sent to Severodvinsk to await disposal. At the same time, the power of the Soviet and Russian fleet could be preserved by modernizing the submarine following the example of how they do it...

Reform of the management organization in the army has just begun. The Leningrad and Moscow districts have been restored, the Navy Commander-in-Chief has been returned to the command of the Navy, and, quite likely, there will be a need to create two ministries - the Navy and the Armed Forces. This opinion was expressed to PolitNavigator by candidate of political sciences, captain 1st rank in reserve Sergei Gorbachev. “The role of the fleet was reduced to assisting the ground forces. That is…

In order to earn “trust” from the United States, the Ukrainians obtained military secrets for the Americans in Russia in such quantities that the CIA station in Kyiv “could not get enough of them.” The New York Times reported on this, calling this behavior of Ukrainians “courtship.” “A small circle of Ukrainian intelligence officers diligently courted the CIA and gradually became vital to the Americans. In 2015...

The situation in the Black Sea theater of military operations remains consistently difficult for Russia, as evidenced by the recent attack on the Ivanovets MRK. Military expert Andrei Soyustov stated this in an interview with Solovyov.live, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Until the Russian side manages to organize an effective system for illuminating the surface situation with the involvement of the necessary forces and means, including large UAVs, which will make it possible to detect...

Russia and Ukraine are maintaining a kind of truce in the Black Sea, avoiding attacks on civilian ships. Military expert Andrei Soyustov stated this in an interview with Solovyov.live, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is a big mystery in this whole situation. This is that neither the Black Sea Fleet is now touching merchant ships going to the Ukrainian Danube ports, nor the Ukrainians, having the technical ability...

The Black Sea Fleet's ship and boat personnel are currently being used poorly, because at the moment there is no “specific combat mission so that its implementation would repay the efforts and possible losses.” Military expert Andrei Soyustov stated this in an interview with Solovyov.live, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Putting them out to sea is essentially making them targets. The trick is that...

The messages flooding social networks about the withdrawal of the main forces of the Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol due to the threat of Ukrainian missile attacks are not true. “Here the tactics are different, our ships do not stay at the pier for a long time, so that from a satellite or from a NATO reconnaissance drone it would be impossible to fix their place for hitting with missile weapons. Ships change berths, are on duty according to schedule in...

It is in vain that the public is paying so much attention to the recent naval drone strike on a bridge in the Odessa region - the Russian Navy is capable of much larger operations, but does not receive orders to carry them out. The former head of the Nativ intelligence service, military expert Yakov Kedmi, stated this in an interview with Israeli journalist Alexander Waldman, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Commenting on the strike by Russian submarines...

The frigate "Admiral Gorshkov", armed with new hypersonic missiles "Zircon", set off on a long voyage across the Atlantic, Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the ship's farewell via video link, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The frigate “Admiral Gorshkov” begins a long sea voyage. This is a common thing, but this time the ship is equipped with the latest Zircon hypersonic missile system,...

The Admiralty Shipyards launched the Velikiye Luki multi-purpose diesel-electric submarine, which had been in the works for more than 15 years. This is the third submarine of the Project 677 Lada series - the fourth generation of non-nuclear submarines, which are recognized as the most promising non-nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy. The lead ship was built several years ago, but then shortcomings were identified…

The coup d'etat and subsequent civil strife in Sudan have made the fate of the Russian military base on the Red Sea, the opening of which was announced back in 2020, uncertain. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The coup d’etat in Sudan in October 2021 made it extremely difficult, and in some areas actually nullified the possibility of implementing large and promising Russian-Sudanese...

The guided missile frigate Admiral Golovko entered sea trials for the first time at Severnaya Verf. Russia intends to build a whole series of such deep ocean ships for its Navy. After 2014, the schedule for the construction of frigates was disrupted due to the demarche of Ukraine, which refused to fulfill the contract for the supply of afterburning engines produced at the Zorya Mashproekt enterprise for the needs of the navy...

Russia has outlined the boundaries and zones of its national interests in the World Ocean in the new Maritime Doctrine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Navy Day. “We have openly defined the borders and zones of Russia’s national interests – both economic and vitally important and strategic. First of all, these are our Arctic waters, the waters of the Black, Okhotsk and Bering Seas, the Baltic and Kuril Seas...

The Ministry of Defense issued a message about a meeting of the command of the Russian Navy with members of the crew of the cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, which sank the day before after a fire and detonation of ammunition. “The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, and the Black Sea Fleet command held a meeting with the crew of the missile cruiser Moskva in Sevastopol. Admiral Nikolai Evmenov informed the cruiser’s crew that the officers, midshipmen and sailors would continue to serve...