Fleet 2024, November

The lead corvette of Project 20386 at the moment of the start of docking of the hull blocks. April 23, 2019 2019 is over, this time even according to the old style, and a new one, 2020, has begun. It makes sense to knock out some results in military shipbuilding

At the end of 1942, the Japanese strategists faced the need to urgently respond to the American unlimited submarine warfare in the Pacific. A particular case of its consequences was that the Japanese fleet could not ensure the transition of supply transports to the island Japanese garrisons. American

Surface combat ships continue to be a critical anti-submarine warfare agent. Photo: Italian submarine ITS Salvatore Todaro (S 526) and Canadian frigate HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337) during NATO exercise Dynamic Manta, February 24, 2020. Photo: USNI News

The first demonstration to the public is a further evolution of what we know as the corvette of project 203869 January 2020, a new round of the epic with the corvette frigate of project 20386 developed by TsMKB Almaz became public knowledge. This time the Almaz Central Design Bureau again jumped above its head and finally transformed the project

At the IMDS-2019 naval arms show, which took place from July 10 to July 14, 2019, one extremely atypical stood out among the many participants. One of the

Recently, the Chinese agency Sina released an article, the brief meaning of which is as follows: Russia builds its Project 6363 Varshavyanka submarines the fastest in the world. A developed state spends from four to seven years on a non-nuclear submarine, while Russia is controlled by a separate "Varshavyanka"

Last week, a large number of articles appeared in the press, mocking the Ukrainian Navy, full of skepticism about their future. So, the author of the article "$ 210 thousand and four leaks: Ukraine will buy decommissioned boats" Lydia Misnik is clearly amused by Ukraine's plans to buy decommissioned Polish

Alfred Thayer Mahan once wrote that no country that has a land "frontier" will achieve the same level of sea power as a country that does not have one and is insular - insular, or isolated, isolated. invested in massive and

SSGN pr. 949A. Two medium torpedo tubes in the bottom row - 65 cm At the end of December 1972, the ship entered service. This boat became the first carrier of new weapons: torpedoes and

Comparing what our fleet could be if the money spent on it would have been spent wisely (see "There was money for the fleet. They even spent it") inevitably have to touch on such a question as the possibilities of industry. Subcontractors manufacturing subsystems for ships - weapons, radar

Baltic corvettes in exercises, 2019 There is an opinion that the Baltic Fleet is a fleet without a future, that it is outdated and it makes no sense to develop it. There is even a joke about the former fleet. It is worth dealing with this issue.Some characteristics of the theater of operations, located on it countries and their influence

In order to understand how the Americans succeeded in what they did, it is necessary to understand what command structures governed all these events. To do this, turn to the sixties. On May 5, 1968, near the island of Oahu, which is part of the Hawaiian archipelago, a diesel submarine died - the carrier

On the night of October 27-28, 1981, an incident occurred in Swedish territorial waters that had still really invaluable consequences: next to the Karlskrona naval base of the Swedish Navy, in those days when some new Swedish torpedoes were being tested (according to Swedes, at least), in

The United States of America is the country that has achieved the greatest success in mine warfare in the past. No German successes in the Baltic or the British anywhere can compare with the American operation "Starvation" ("Starvation", translated as "Famine"), during which they were mined

In military history, there are cases when surface warships or submarines in battle sank aircraft carriers, but they belong to the period of the Second World War, with its detection and destruction ranges, with the then equipment, weapons and tactics. The aircraft carrier CV-59 "Forrestal" These cases are definitely

Incredibly, it happened. We have good news today regarding the Navy. And not just good ones, but very good ones. MOSCOW, April 9. / TASS /. Two Project 22350 frigates and two Project 11711 large landing ships for the Russian Navy will be laid down on April 23 at the shipyards in

Very often, when trying to discuss hypothetical military scenarios, one has to come across the argument that, they say, Russia has nuclear weapons, and therefore the war with it will be strictly nuclear, so no enemy will dare to attack. less

There is hardly a topic in the modern information field that is more controversial than the potential legalization of private military companies in Russia. Both President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov spoke positively on this topic. The idea of legalizing such organizations has had and still has

In the course of dialogues regarding how thoughtful the shipbuilding policy of the Russian Navy was, the question of money inevitably arises. Whoever is an opponent who does not want to admit the failed nature of the entire Russian naval development of the last sixteen to seventeen years

The experience of the past is valuable only when it is studied and correctly understood. Forgotten lessons of the past will certainly be repeated. This is more true than ever for military development and preparation for war, and it is not in vain that the military is carefully studying the battles of the past. This, of course, also applies to the naval forces

A lot of bad things can be said about the various forces of the Russian Navy, and not very much good, but against this background, mine action forces stand out. The fact is that this is the only type of force in the Navy, whose capabilities are equal to zero - strictly. No more. Yes, the submarine fleet does not have modern torpedoes, does not have

As previously announced, on April 23, two new frigates of Project 22350, named Admiral Amelko and Admiral Chichagov, were laid, as well as two new ships, as promised, Project 11711, named Vladimir Andreev and Vasily Trushin ". And it was then that everyone was surprised: the Navy and

A joke about something in a healthy person and the same thing in a smoker becomes an unexpectedly capacious metaphor when it comes to patrol ships. It has already been said about what a "smoker's patrol ship" looks like. Now, within the framework of a detailed study of someone else's experience, it makes sense

The engine room of the project 20380 corvette The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to begin the serial production of warships with gas turbine main power plants - BOD (now classified as TFR in the Russian Navy, as destroyers in the Indian Navy) of Project 61, the famous "singing frigates"

The advent of anti-ship missiles in the second half of the last century triggered the naval revolution. True, the West realized it only after the Egyptians sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in October 1967. A pair of Arab missile boats armed with P-15 "Termite" anti-ship missiles effortlessly sent

Considering Japan's military build-up, one must be very clear about two things. First, the Japanese lie in military matters. And second - they know how to show things not as they really are. Japan's military programs are an excellent illustration of both theses

The abundance of criticism addressed to the domestic fleet, and especially the direction in which naval development is developing, should, in all fairness, be accompanied by some kind of explanation of how everything should have been done

The information circulated in the article "Fleet without ships. The Russian Navy is on the verge of collapse" that a submarine in a submerged (underwater) position can be detected by means of radar caused some excitement, and even a response - the article "On the collapse of the Russian Navy and new methods

Despite the fact that the Russian Navy is absolutely not ready for a "big" war, this will not stop any of our opponents. Therefore, you will still have to fight against the enemy naval forces, just the main load will fall on the aerospace forces, and not on the incapacitated fleet. In this regard, it is worth considering one fundamental

A little geography for beginners. Periodically, in discussions of issues related to submarine warfare, or, as it was recently, with the atomic super torpedo Poseidon, some citizens begin to speak out on the topic of “going out into the ocean”, about finding a submarine or “Poseidon "In the ocean is unrealistic due to

The large landing ship "Konstantin Olshansky" belongs to the family of Project 775 landing ships. At the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, it became clear to the fleet command that the Union landing fleet no longer met its requirements. Therefore, in 1968, at the direction of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy

At the Khudun-Zhonghua shipyard a landing helicopter-carrying dock of project 081 was laid down. Almost the same DVKD, but with more modest combat capabilities, will be exported. The technical characteristics of project 081, according to open sources, are as follows: length - 260 meters, width - 40 meters, full displacement

The author (and other experts) repeatedly raised questions of the critical state of the mine action forces of the Navy, not only incapable of fighting the modern mine threat, but also having a military-technical lag behind the modern level of military affairs, unprecedented in our armed forces

Despite the bravura assurances of a number of officials about the allegedly successful solution of tasks by the old minesweepers of the Navy, their absolute obsolescence and limited combat capabilities are clear to all objective observers and specialists

As you know, Iraq has a very limited access to the Persian Gulf, between the borders of Iran and Kuwait. As a result, the development of the fleet has never been given much attention - even with small forces operating from the Persian Gulf, the entire Iraqi fleet is easily blocked at its bases

Presumptive appearance of the Zircon rocket. Figure Riafan.ru Russia continues to develop a promising anti-ship missile 3M22 "Zircon". This ultra-high performance hypersonic weapon will become a unique and extremely dangerous means of dealing with the surface fleet of the probable

Even before the end of World War II, the United States developed a secret plan for atomic bombing of 20 largest cities in the USSR. The list includes Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky, Kuibyshev, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Saratov, Kazan, Baku, Tashkent, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Perm, Tbilisi

The notification received by the author on the positive result of the examination of the application for the invention of "Ekranoplan" will allow to promote this project, which is able to say a new word both in transportation and in the creation of a real ocean-going fleet of Russia

We can say that the conclusions are somewhat premature, because only the first week has passed since the group of our ships headed by the TAVKR "Admiral Kuznetsov" operates in Syria. However, we can already say that everything went a little not as planned. As I understand it, "Admiral Kuznetsov" was sent to

Introduction Equipping Russian ships under construction with imported equipment has a long history. This is confirmed by the ships built according to the programs of the military shipbuilding of the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, the pre-war shipbuilding programs of the USSR (1935-1938