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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Completes the First Stage of its Modernization
The Black Sea fleet is actively developing into a self-sufficient and balanced force.
21 May 2020
The Black Sea fleet is actively developing into a self-sufficient and balanced force.
The Knyaz Vladimir Borei A-class nuclear submarine of project 955A began underwater trials in the White Sea before the handover to the Northern fleet, the Defense Ministry said.
The Russian Navy’s Baltic fleet will receive a series of six Karakurt-class corvettes of project 22800. Four of them will be armed with Pantsir-M air defense launchers, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov said.
The Black Sea fleet will be the first to obtain the Vice Admiral Paromov first tanker of project 03182.
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 Zvyozdochka Shipyard is planning to prepare the Admiral Kuznetsov heavy aircraft carrier for shipbuilders sea trials by the fall of 2022 after its repair and upgrade are completed
The Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia has floated out a multi-layer superstructure for the Project 20380 corvette Strogy (NATO reporting name: Steregushchy-class), the shipyard’s press office said.
The Khabarovsk nuclear submarine of project 09851, which is the second carrier of Poseidon underwater craft, is likely to be floated in late June, a defense industry source told TASS.
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.
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.
