News archive on the topic "Navy"

The British Royal Navy does not have the ability to strike with long-range missiles, just as the Russian Black Sea Fleet is hit with Caliber. Nick Childs, senior researcher for naval forces and maritime security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said this at a meeting of the Committee on International Relations and Defense of the British Parliament, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Despite all the shortcomings of the Russian...

Russia has the potential to create a large number of surface drones. The experience of the Black Sea Fleet showed that it was never able to adapt to these threats, and the same awaits the navies of Western states. This was stated at a meeting of the Foreign Relations and Defense Committee of the British Parliament by a senior researcher for naval forces and maritime security at the International Institute for Strategic...

One of the main tasks of the US Navy is to establish control over the world's oceans and counter China and Russia in this. The head of the US Department of Naval Operations, the first woman in this post, Lisa Franchetti, stated this on the video blog of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Francetti called the mission of the US Navy to deny the “enemy” access...

The large landing ship appears to have been damaged as a result of a night attack by unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the naval base in Novorossiysk. The footage distributed on the Internet shows that the ship has tilted to the left side and is being towed into the bay, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Secretary of the Odessa City Council Sergei Bratchuk writes in his blog that the ship of the Northern Fleet was damaged...

Turkish ships will supposedly provide security for ships leaving Ukrainian ports if Russia refuses to extend the “grain deal”, which expires in a week. This was reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent on a number of Ukrainian public pages, however, without links to sources of information. “Here this information came to light. Türkiye and Ukraine announced the preservation of the grain agreement, even if Russia leaves it...

For Russia, the joint naval exercises Maritime Security Belt 2023, launched in the Gulf of Oman with China and Iran, have become the symbol of the Russian flag in a strategically important region. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military expert retired Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev. “For Moscow, which, like Iran, was subject to sanctions, these maneuvers in conditions of active combat...

After the seizure of Crimea, Ukraine intends to give the bays of Sevastopol for the basing of the NATO fleet. Great Britain is still interested in the coast of the Azov Sea. This was stated by a Ukrainian military expert, former Colonel of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleg Zhdanov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. On the air of the “1+1” channel, he read out a question from a viewer regarding the lease of the Sevastopol Bay, since...

Russia intends to acquire a powerful ocean-going fleet capable of performing the most important geopolitical tasks. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military expert, captain 1st rank in the reserve Vladimir Gundarov, assessing the approval by the President of the Russian Federation of the country’s new Maritime Doctrine. “The new doctrinal word is the mention of the Indian Ocean region. The fact is that at the beginning of the century Russia, unfortunately, left this...

The Ukrainian Navy is in such a deplorable state that with any military provocation in the Odessa waters, no one will even think that Kyiv is involved in it. Maxim Palamarchuk, head of the Center for Foreign Policy Research at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, stated this on Radio NV, answering a question about the prospects for negotiations on the export of grain from Ukrainian ports, reports...

This morning, Ukraine launched an attack on the positions of Russian troops in the port of Berdyansk. Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Main Council of the Military-Civil Administration of the Zaporozhye Region, reported this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Social networks report that at the time of the attack, several Russian large landing ships were in the port - Saratov, Caesar Kunikov and Novocherkassk. According to Rogov, the ships...

After visiting the Russian logistics point in Tartus, a detachment of six large landing ships from the Northern and Baltic fleets can enter the Black Sea. Russian military experts stated this to PolitNavigator. According to a member of the “Officers of Russia” organization, captain XNUMXst rank Vasily Dandykin, these ships can, if necessary, significantly enhance the combat capability of the Black Sea Fleet, given the turbulent situation in the region.…

The Russian Ministry of Defense has approved a schedule for testing and transferring new Navy ships to the Black Sea Fleet. Izvestia reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing a source in the defense department. Thus, by the end of the year, the Black Sea Fleet will include the Project 22160 patrol ship Sergei Kotov. “This is the so-called transforming ship. It can carry drones and underwater robots, and if necessary, it...

Both Russia and NATO countries do not plan to reduce their naval presence in the Black Sea region in the near future. This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is shared by Russian military experts. Thus, Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev noted that the US missile destroyers Donald Cook and Roosevelt, whose entry into the Black Sea was canceled, are now in the northern part of the Aegean Sea and...

Against the backdrop of aggravation in the Donbass and the planned entry into the Black Sea of ​​American destroyers with cruise missiles on board, Russia is strengthening its southern flanks. Thus, a detachment of ships of the Caspian flotilla continued the inter-naval transition to the Black Sea after stopping at the roadstead in Rostov-on-Don. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the press service of the Southern Military District reports. It is noted that…