The project to build a series of eight SSBN was reported in May 2018 when a defense industry source disclosed a decision to build another six submarines of project 955A at Sevmash Shipyard.
The navigation and oceanography department of the Russian Defense Ministry will receive a dozen new hydrographic boats and vessels by 2021. Each Russian Navy fleet will be reinforced with them. The Army Standard online publication studied the prospects of the hydrographic fleet.
The Slava-class missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ (project 1164) is returning to the Russian Black Sea fleet. It has powerful anti-aircraft and missile weapons and is dangerous for any adversary group of warships.
Pella Shipyard in St. Petersburg launched two more Raptor-class patrol boats (project 03160) for the Baltic Fleet. These vessels are the 15th and 16th built for the Russian Navy.
The Russian Navy’s search-and-rescue service is planned to receive 14 more Marlin-350 remote-controlled unmanned submersible vehicles before the end of 2020, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
Russian defense industry sources confirm that the Russian Navy’s Pr.1164 Atlant (NATO: SLAVA Class) will get a new lease of life.
Borei-A-class SSBN of project 955A will operate in the Far East. Five out of eight submarines will serve in the Pacific fleet. The Russian Navy is restoring the Far Eastern nuclear arsenal which was nearly lost thirty years ago.
Against a backdrop of the uneasy deal between Turkey and Russia in Syria, and growing national emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian warships continue to pass south through the Bosphorus.
The main missions of big-displacement warships armed with a major number of missiles is to provide air defense to warship formations and deliver missile strikes at sea and coastal targets.
Open sources reported in July 2018 that it had been decided to take a break in the creation of a prospective destroyer (heavy nuclear missile cruiser) of project 23560. A publication in February 2020 in FlotProm online media outlet did not add anything new. However the headline Leader Destroyer Listed as Outsider and some statements (project stopped because of lack of funds, prospective nuclear cruiser is not even discussed, it is a distant future) caused concern of specialists. Expert Alexander Shishkin writes about project 23560 prospects in his blog.
