Fleet 2024, November

USS Parche in the process of launching, January 13, 1973. Photo by US Navy Over the past decades, the US Navy constantly has special reconnaissance and special ships and submarines capable of obtaining information and solving other special tasks. One of the most remarkable

From Independence to Crimea The annexation of Crimea to Russia was a colossal blow to the Ukrainian Navy, already struggling with funding and combat capability since the country's independence. After the Crimean events, the country lost 75% of the personnel of the fleet and 70% of the ships, and

US Navy aircraft carriers - left USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), right USS_Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), June 4, 2020 Photo by US Navy In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of ships and the combat potential of the fleets of Russia and China. In particular, new, more efficient designs are being created

The historical essay covers the period from the early fifties to the mid-nineties of the XX century: on the creation of the first domestic reconnaissance ships and their use in order to conduct naval electronic reconnaissance (RER)

Most of the Russian ships are small ships. But this cannot be called balanced light forces. These are the remnants of the USSR Navy and a number of haphazardly tuned ships. Assessing what the ship composition of the fleet should be, it will inevitably have to resolve a number of contradictions: optimal

How it all began In 1965, the USSR Navy finally formulated the requirements for a new class of ships, which were later assigned the MRK (small rocket ship) classification. It was originally planned that the new ship will have the dimensions and displacement inherent in missile

It is better not to build a fleet at all than to build it obviously unfit for solving its direct task; this, at least, will be frank and will not entail useless expenses for a toy unnecessary for the state. Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, “On the rationality of the naval idea in

Admiral S.G. Gorshkov and SSBN pr. 941. Photo source: RT February 26, 2021 marked the 111th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy from the beginning of 1956 to the end of 1985, the creator of our

The future UDC Trieste is under construction. Photo Fincantieri Recently in Italy, completed the construction of a promising universal amphibious assault ship Trieste. On August 12, he first went to sea trials, and in the coming months will have to confirm its characteristics. According to

Watchtower Jan Mayen at sea - only on schedule In the coming years, it is planned to decommission the existing Nordkapp-class patrol ships, which are morally and physically obsolete. To replace them, we have developed and

The first and the first number of strange ships was the tsarist cruiser, completed in the USSR according to the modified project "Red Caucasus" of the "Svetlana" type. When you get acquainted with the armament of a ship that is not bad, in general, for the First World War, one can only be amazed at how disfigured the formidable combat vehicle was

General view of the submarines of the "P" project at the time of commissioning squadron submarine - a ship with torpedo and artillery weapons capable of conducting surface combat as part of a formation. In the thirties

Multipurpose nuclear submarine USS Seawolf (SSN-21) of the project of the same name. Despite the technical excellence, these ships did not become massive. While this project has a symbol

These ships can really claim to be the best Japanese light cruisers. And in the world table of ranks, they would have taken a fairly high place. The only thing that overshadows everything is that these cruisers turned out to be very unlucky in reality. But these ships had one interesting difference, about which

Having written about the British high-speed minelayer cruisers "Abdiel", I realized that it would be simply criminal to ignore what the story of the minelayer cruisers began with. Simply because the ships from which this story began, remained unsurpassed in their class and, having done things for

The system of planning and directing maritime, including naval, activities in the United States is fundamentally different from domestic. The role of the US Congress is immeasurably great. It is to Congress that the Secretary of the Navy and the Commander-in-Chief (CNO) prove the validity of their proposals. In the committees of the Senate

Small non-nuclear submarine P-750B developed by SPMBM "Malakhit". Perhaps the "Gorgon" will be similar to it At present, our country is working on several promising projects of submarines of different classes and purposes. Not so long ago it became known about the launch of the project with

The lead nuclear submarine of pr. 885M during the ceremony of admission to the Navy, May 7, 2021. The program for the construction of promising nuclear submarine pr. 885M "Yasen-M" continues successfully. So, on July 1, the newest submarine of this type, K-573 "Novosibirsk", went for sea trials for the first time. it

Photo: yuhanson.livejournal.com Our friend from the other side of the world Sebastian Roblin wrote an interesting article, translated here: https://inosmi.ru/military/20210726/250191177.html. In his work, he analyzed in detail five types of Russian ships that "can control the Black Sea." According to him

If you study everything that is in the Runet about this creation, then the main message of the overwhelming majority of authors boils down to one thing: the Americans are stupid, they spent billions of dollars on the creation, do not understand why, and then dismantled. Whether the homebrew "experts" are so right is worth investigating, since

The lead ship HMCS Harry DeWolf (AOPV-430) shortly before launching The first such ship was recently handed over to the Royal Canadian Navy, followed by

The entire short life of ships of this class can be characterized by one term “unlucky”. And the main thing that these ships were unlucky for was that Japan went to war. And these cruisers, which, in general, were not cruisers, were forced to take on cruising duties. Well, what of

One can argue for a long time which class of surface ships was the most effective during the Second World War. Precisely surface, because with submarines everything is clear and understandable. As well as with aircraft carriers, but here the work is not of an aircraft carrier as a ship, but of aircraft that this launch delivers to the place

In this article I will try to understand the nuances of firing multiple ships at one target. It will be very difficult to do this, because I am not a naval gunner and have never seen such shooting. At the same time, the descriptions of eyewitnesses are extremely sparse, there are almost no photos, and about the video on

Historically, of all the branches of the military in VO, the fleet receives the greatest informational support, thanks to the efforts of such authors as Alexander Timokhin and Maxim Klimov. The very fact that the problems of the fleet are being discussed is undoubtedly positive. However, the country's defense

A few days ago, the US Navy received a new multipurpose nuclear submarine. In the near future, the USS Illinois (SSN-786) submarine must go through a number of necessary procedures, after which it will be officially entered into the fleet's combat strength, and full operation will begin. An introduction to

On September 23, 2006, an extraordinary event took place in the world shipbuilding: in the city of Marinette, Wisconsin (USA), from the stocks of the Marinette Marine Shipyard of the Gibbs & Cox corporation, the world's first ship of a new class was launched - a coastal combat ship with symbolic

After the publication in September 2013 of the report of the US Accounts Chamber on the state of the program for the construction of the lead aircraft carrier of the new generation Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), a number of articles appeared in the foreign and domestic press, in which the construction of the aircraft carrier was viewed in an extremely negative light

On November 9, the newest aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford was launched at the American shipyard Newport News. Unlike the recent launch of the destroyer Zumwalt, this time the shipbuilding industry and the military staged a ceremony. In accordance with the traditions of the stem

We will still build the submarine of project 705 in the XXI century. Director of the State Enterprise "Admiralty Shipyards" V.L. Aleksandrov on the 50th anniversary of the SPMBM "Malakhit" (1998) the nuclear submarine of project 705 became a nationwide task, an attempt to make a breakthrough to achieve military-technical superiority over the western bloc. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

In general, historically, China has always been unlucky with its fleet, the steam fleet built with great difficulty at the end of the 19th century was destroyed by the Japanese, and attempts to revive it rested on money that was not there. Then there was the second Sino-Japanese war, where the Chinese fleet fought purely nominally. Yes, and things were going in the PRC

Photo: Christopher Michel / flickr.com A long story with an unknown ending Back in 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense and the United Shipbuilding Corporation signed an agreement on

The Drive known to us the other day issued an interesting conclusion in an article by Thomas Newdick: it seemed to the author (and the editorial office) that the design (and much more, probably) was copied by the Chinese from the Swedish submarine A26. The Swedish A26 class submarine is not yet ready, work is underway on it, but

The design appearance of the AUV "Sarma". Graphics FPIK Currently, in the interests of the armed forces in our country, several autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs) of different shapes with different capabilities have been developed. Now the accumulated experience and mastered technologies are planned

Before the start of the International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg, specialists and leaders of different levels from the United Engine Corporation followed several statements and speeches at once on the topic of how things are in the UEC with engines for the Navy

Like the lotus flower from the farewell poem of a Japanese naval pilot who became a kamikaze, the last three Japanese light cruisers of the 5500-ton Sendai series have gone down in history. On these ships, the construction of cruisers with a displacement of 5,500 tons has ended. Japan Naval Command

Design look of the destroyer "055". The ship launches a rocket from a central universal installation. Graphics Wikimedia Commons China is actively developing its naval surface fleet, and one of the main measures in this direction is the construction of destroyers. Over the past decades

General view of the UET-1E torpedo. Photo Bmpd.livejournal.com Serial production of the latest electric torpedoes UET-1 continues, and finished products are transferred to the bases of the Russian Navy. Such weapons are intended for modern submarines. Due to its increased

Threat of border incidents One of the ways to exert political pressure or even create a pretext for the outbreak of hostilities is a demonstrative violation of the enemy's state border by enemy ships and aircraft. More recently, we saw this clearly in the example of the invasion

Joseph Trevithick, the voice of American "hawks" (probably still more "petrels"), hovering above (and below) the waves in his article Russia's Newest Submarines Are "On Par With Ours" According To Senior American General quoted the head of the Northern Command of the Armed Forces USA