When the Marine Nationale's latest submarine, Suffren (Q284) conducted its first test dives it grabbed headlines. What went largely unnoticed by the world was that a Russian ship had been loitering in the area.
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.
India will receive two Project 1135.6 frigates currently under construction at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad in west Russia by the end of the first half of 2024, the press office of Russia's Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation told TASS.
The Petr Morgunov amphibious assault ship of project 11711 built by Yantar Shipyard began factory running trials, the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said.
The Pacific Fleet’s Project 1155M frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov currently being upgraded has left the dry dock of the Dalzavod Shipyard in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East and gone to the outfitting pier, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
