Fleet 2024, November

The nuclear-powered underwater gas carrier, named "Pilgrim", promises to be a very futuristic product. With all the skepticism about the work of domestic design bureaus, it must be admitted that sometimes they have original ideas. Skepticism stems largely from the fact

Meeting of personnel, at which one of the NUBs receives "dolphins". Submarine "Rhode Island" (USS Rhode Island) On June 16, 2020 in The Drive magazine, under the heading The War Zone, an article was published by the former sonar from the US Navy nuclear submarine Aaron Amick "Nukes

An analysis of frigates created in Europe, Russia and the countries of Southeast Asia does not give a complete picture of the trends in the development of this class without assessing the ships of the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf zone. There is no palette of types here, but there are projects that are fully consistent with the world level. At

The construction of a powerful military grouping in the northern direction requires not only the deployment of new bases, but also the construction of appropriate ships. In the foreseeable future, the ship group responsible for protecting the northern borders of the country will have to be replenished with two universal patrol

The logical ending to the conversation about the heavy cruisers of the Japanese Imperial Navy will be the story of the Tone-class cruisers. In the material about the "Mogami", the moment was touched upon when Japan used all the unused displacement under the treaties to create 6 class "B" cruisers. Four cruisers are

Gigantomania is very bad. Proven by the Soviet Union. Huge factories, huge budgets, huge armies devouring these budgets: it would seem that all this remained in the distant past, in a bipolar world. An no. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper revealed new details about extremely ambitious plans

When you hear or read the word "raider", something Germanic immediately pops up in your memory. Either the muddy silhouette of the "Tirpitz" somewhere in the North, by its mere presence causing the relaxation of organisms among the British, or an auxiliary cruiser converted from a civilian ship with a team of selected

Kyle Mizokami. National Interest and a bunch of other publications. One of the most sober-minded analysts in the United States today and an excellent expert reflects on how things are today in the US Navy. Five Ways the U.S. Navy Will Beat Any Enemy at War

Yes, sometimes the path of a ship is similar to that of a man. To be the firstborn in a huge family, to nurture the younger ones, go through the entire war from the first to the last day, survive, burning in atomic fire, and then be shot in gratitude. All this is not about a cruiser, but about cruisers like "Pensacola". First American

Photo: CrazyMk / forums.airbase.ru Continuing the topic of our submarine forces and not the most pleasant situation associated with them. On the one hand, it is nice to know that if something happens - our underwater monsters will demolish one continent from the face of the earth, seemingly completely inhabited by enemies. Even in revenge. On the other

Yes, as promised, we will now bring the two articles together and add some analysis. And the main purpose of this material will be to answer the question: can we in 10 years even think about the fact that our fleets will be able to provide at least minimal resistance if something happens?

The situation with the Russian submarine forces is beginning, if not to cause concern, then it makes you think very hard. On the one hand, it seems like our submarine fleet, which is not like the surface one, is the guarantor of the country's security, on the other … On the other hand, problems with the submarine fleet did not begin

In general, reflective articles about how important a strong fleet is for Russia appear systematically and regularly. Perhaps the frequency of occurrence is influenced by the proximity of budget readings for the next year, but this is only an assumption

May the regular readers of the column forgive me for jumping so unceremoniously from the criticized German light troughs for some reason to the French heavy cruisers. Yes, in theory, "Hippers" should go now, but here - "Algeri". And this is no accident. At the very end there will be an answer to the question why exactly

Let's agree right away: not "pocket battleships", not "nedolinkors". Heavy cruisers. Yes, in terms of weapons, they were somewhat beyond the class, but the 283-mm was by no means the caliber of a battleship at that time. 356 mm, 380 mm, 406 mm - these are the calibers for the battleship. And 283 mm is like the Soviet light cruisers of the project

Yes, now we will go to the German shores and see what the heavy cruisers of the Admiral Hipper type were like, since the story of their appearance is already a good plot in itself. In general, the construction of cruisers in imperial Germany was very simple: a basic model was created , and then

Who, if not the Americans, can judge foreign aircraft carriers? Indeed, they are experts in this type of ships the best in the world. Kyle Mizokami, an employee of our beloved "The National Interest", gave a very interesting picture of Indian aircraft carrier ambitions. Kyle is generally quite

Have you been waiting? I know they were waiting. We wrote in the comments. Well, it's time to talk about probably the most useless ships of the light cruiser class of World War II. These are worthy rivals to the Soviet cruisers, which stood in ports (with the rarest exception, such as the Red Caucasus), throughout the war. Only

Stephen Stashwick, maritime expert for The Diplomat, believes the new approach to anti-submarine defense now being implemented in the United States and China is a step forward. What's the point? The point is in approaching the problem. The problem is Russian and Chinese submarines (Chinese project 094

And on this note (so far it is difficult to say whether it is joyful or mournful), we begin our review of the last pair of Italian light cruisers of the Condottieri class, type E. Yes, after them there were also ships of the F type, but, as they say, they did not smell gunpowder. But type E … It's debatable, but let me put it this way: they were

We condemn the man-torpedoes of the Japanese Imperial Navy "kaiten" in about the same way as the kamikaze pilots. Fu, barbarity. And we have reasons for that. But "kaitens" are just a fresh example. And since the history of the fleet goes back more than one century, there is a whole barge of examples. Moreover, the main

Naturally, your comments on both my format of fighter ratings and the article about Zero prompted me to continue the topic. Okay, I agree: the Zero is the most outstanding carrier-based fighter of the Second World War. And it is issued by the fact that not a single model from any country sent to the next world

Today we will talk about the continuation of the series of Italian light cruisers of the "Condottieri" type, series D, which consisted of two ships. The first was "Eugenio di Savoia" (in the text - "Savoy") and "Emanuelo Filiberto Duc D'Aosta" (in the text - "Aosta")

It looks like the story that began in 2008 is starting to end. The so-called coastal zone ships of the US Navy are leaving for mothballing. We wrote about the existence of an LCS-class ship, and now we are starting, apparently, to observe the last act of the presentation

If such a text were written, for example, by a Russian expert, it could easily be declared an information war. However, the opinion belongs to the Americans. Precisely in the plural, since not only the author David Wise (very, by the way, a serious analyst), but also a bunch of US Navy admirals

Our story begins in fact from the moment the First World War ended. The French admirals were in deep thought, because if the French fleet did not signify participation in the war by trampling in a Mediterranean puddle, then one could say that France at sea and not

Yes, we can already say that "who is talking about what, and here everything is about diesel engines." What if this is the case? If the situation is not something that does not improve, it gets worse. We stand, and soon we will even stop smoking. Sources Mil.Press FlotProm allow in publications to conclude that the situation

Coastal defense. This, if you look into the dictionary of terms, is a set of forces and means of a fleet with fortifications and a system of anti-landing and anti-aircraft structures designed to protect naval bases, ports and important coastal areas. Let's also do

The bell of the naval agreement in Washington blasted through Britain as well. More precisely, according to the budget of the "Lady of the Seas", and blasted no worse than the armor-piercing shells of German battleships and cruisers in the Battle of Jutland. Having agreed with the rest of the participants, Britain began to build its heavy cruisers, and … it became clear

David Ax of The National Interest put out a very original analyst: “Watch Out! Russian Submarines Are Prowling Off the U.S. Coast "

Yes, our today's story is about them, about the forerunners of the class of heavy cruisers and the first Washington cruisers. Well, and how it all turned out in general. It all began during the First World War. If you look like this, then the entire Royal Navy was engaged in this kind of game of catch-up. because

Dear readers, surely many of you were taught in childhood that doing several things at the same time, and even more carelessly, is not very good. It is even harmful, proved by the fifth points, in case the head did not think about what the rest of the body was doing

I must say right away that we will be talking about the times, not so far away, but about those when the radar was a miracle of the sea and, rather, an additional gadget for bangers from large and not very large calibers. That is, about the times of World War II. The fact that during that war the plane showed itself in all its glory and completely

Imperceptibly, without fanfare and generally almost without unnecessary memories on February 26, the 110th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov passed. Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, a man who left behind not some kind of virtual legacy in the form of memoirs, memories, reflections, but quite real

WIGs. Very original and peculiar machines with great potential, as they say now. The brainchild of the Minister of Defense Marshal Dmitry Ustinov, who greatly helped the appearance of these machines in general and the "Caspian Monster" in particular. In the history (unfortunately) of the USSR, the first serial

Comparisons, of course, will be. They are in the front as they go through materials on British and American (especially) ships. But this point cannot be dispensed with, it is needed like a cup of sake before a battle. More than once I expressed my opinion that Japanese heavy cruisers were … controversial. But not deprived

Yes, our readers, who are like cognac, seasoned and experienced, are something! They are able to start a discussion, let's say, out of the blue, splashing gasoline on seemingly extinct coals. However, sometimes it brings quite amazing results. This is how one of our readers (Valery) suddenly threw in

Today's story is about such wonderful ships that it is simply difficult, perhaps, to find the cruisers that made the most noise. Even the Deutschlands cannot be compared to the effect that the appearance of these ships produced. The story began on April 22, 1930, when, in the process of signing the London

Photo: IA "Arms of Russia" Lately, we have only talked about whether we need to build another whopper, a nuclear destroyer the size of a cruiser, a nuclear aircraft carrier with a displacement of 100 thousand tons, and so on. Meanwhile, we cannot give crazy available big ships (yes, I am all

The next stage in the development of the Japanese shipbuilding program, and specifically of heavy cruisers. From "Myoko" to "Mogami" and "Tone" the path of Japanese shipbuilders lay through the project of heavy cruisers of the Takao class. Cruisers of the Takao class became a further stage in the development of the Myoko project. When designing ships, so