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Three Project 22350 Frigates to Join Russia’s Pacific Fleet
Three Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates (Project 22350 ) will join the Pacific fleet of the Russian Navy. The Admiral Amelko will be the first one.
16 June 2020
Three Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates (Project 22350 ) will join the Pacific fleet of the Russian Navy. The Admiral Amelko will be the first one.
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps are looking to quickly overhaul their Cold War-era way of moving Marines around, with the services already agreeing on the basic requirements for a new Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) and in the early phases of looking at a separate small amphibious ship class.
Taiwan’s naval shipbuilder China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) held a keel laying ceremony for the country’s first ever indigenous landing platform dock (LPD) on June 9, 2020. The 10,000 tons amphibious vessel is set to be delivered to the Republic of China Navy (ROC or Taiwan Navy) in April 2022.
The Indonesian Government appears to be moving forward with a plan to procure two large displacement frigates for the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL). The frigates would be based on the Danish Iver Huitfeldt-class and built at local shipyard PT PAL.
Russian frigates of project 22350 will be upgraded. The Admiral Gorshkov is the first warship to get upgraded radars and electronic warfare systems.
The United States’ State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Taiwan of eighteen MK 48 Mod6 Advanced Technology (AT) Heavyweight Torpedoes (HWT) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $180 million. But which ROC Navy Submarines are set to get these torpedoes ?
Units and personnel from the U.S. Navy and the U.S Marine Corps are conducting integrated operations in support of regional security and stability in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in the Philippine sea on May 7, 2020.
Atomflot and Zvezda Shipyard of Rosneft signed in late April 2020 a contract to build the Leader-class nuclear icebreaker of project 10510 for operation in high latitudes, the Zvezda weekly writes.
The European Defense Agency (EDA) and the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) have just launched a research study on electromagnetic railguns in which 5 European countries are taking part. The study has been dubbed ‘PILUM’.
The Russian Navy is reinforcing its naval group in the Mediterranean Sea. Two new submarines with Kalibr cruise missiles joined it. Other warships are to arrive. The Mediterranean group is reinforced on the background of the escalating civil war in Libya and the tanker war in the Gulf.
