Story by TASS Russian news agency “It was towed from the pool. The difficult operation is unprecedented in shipbuilding,” Sevmash Shipyard Sevmash CEO Mikhail Budnichenko, acting Arkhangelsk regional
Forpost drones can not only detect the adversary at sea, but also transmit coordinates to combat aviation in real time. The new system has been recently tested during Black Sea fleet maneuvers.
The armed forces will receive Be-200 amphibious aircraft, as the Defense Ministry plans to create several air units. The first amphibian is operating in the 859th naval training center in Yeisk. Experts believe Be-200 can be engaged by the Navy in rescue operations and anti-submarine warfare in future, the Izvestia daily writes.
The Udaloy-class ASW destroyer “Vice Admiral Kulakov” of the Russian Navy’s Northern fleet is currently sailing in the Bay of Biscay to “ensure Russian naval presence in the region”. It will eventually join the Mediterranean sea.
The Ocean Shield 2020 exercise has kicked off in the Baltic Sea on 3 August, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press office said. The exercise is being directed by Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, the press office added.
The “Ivan Rogov” and the “Mitrofan Moskalenko”, the first Russian LHD / amphibious assault ships of project 23900 will be able to operate as floating headquarters or command ships.
The Russian Navy will begin trials of new modular systems by the end of the summer. They include weapons and equipment carried in ordinary sea containers which can be loaded on various warships and plugged into onboard power supplies and controls.
The Amur Shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia’s Far East held a keel laying ceremony for the Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette ‘Pavlovsk’ on 29 July. This is the 16th corvette of the Karakurt-class and it is intended for the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard laid the keel of the “Lev Chernavin” on 24 July. It is the 8th Alexandrite-class mine counter measure (MCM) vessel of project 12700 for the Russian navy, the enterprise said.
Work to develop and produce the latest naval weapon systems, such as the underwater unmanned Poseidon craft and hypersonic Tsirkon missile is successfully nearing completion, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
