It is unlikely that someone will now argue with the fact that China has every chance of becoming a new superpower if it has not already become one. Among other things, the PRC has recently paid enough attention and ...

Progress is not an accident, but a necessity. The answer to the development of air attack was the emergence of specialized air defense ships. The first representative of this class ...

It seems that the navy of the Soviet Union unwittingly followed the rule “the smaller the ship, the greater the benefit from it”. This was the patrol ship of the 1135 project under the code “Stormy Petroleum” ....

The USS Long Beach atomic missile cruiser (CGN-9) has opened a new Era in the history of the fleet - the era of a horizontally, surgically accurate war at sea with the use of rocket weapons. The world's first missile cruiser ....

To one of the main types of quality assurance of combat training (combat operations) of warships is the radio-electronic systems included in the complex of engineering and radio-electronic ...

The rocket launcher installation is designed to conduct single and multiple rocket launchers with RSL-60 rocket depth bombs in order to destroy the enemy’s attacking torpedoes and submarines ....

Official historical background: The cruiser was laid on July 31 on the 1979 shipyard at the “Name of the 61 Communard” shipyard as the Red Chervona Ukraina. Named at the request of the Council of Great Veterans ...

In DCNS, the assembly of the 2 th nuclear submarine of the Barracuda project has begun. The 12 and 13 sections of its enclosure are already connected. The assembly of ten sections has also been completed, and eight more are now in the process of assembly. The whole ...

Just recently, an interesting article was published in the American magazine Jane's Navy International, in which some known details of the newest project to create...

Among all the talk about the purchase by Russia of the French Mistral-class ships, a very obvious and logical idea is very rare. Its essence is that this cooperation, among other things ...

The history of the submarine is rooted in the man after whom it was named - Robert Surcouf. The French privateer and pirate in his time received the nickname "The Storm of the Seas", because he was ...

The latest information from the margins of the military-industrial complex - the submarines of the 949A Antey project will begin to undergo a rearmament program. Granit missile systems will be replaced by Caliber and Onyx. At this time...

Our country’s possession of nuclear weapons that can be delivered covertly by submarines to any part of the planet will not prevent economic and social cataclysms in Russia, however ...

The main objective of the working trip of the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, was to check the readiness of the Northern Fleet's aircraft carrier group led by a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser ...

It is no secret that there are no things that would be only positive or only negative. In some ways, are no exception to this rule and submarines. With all the pros ...

Much has been written about the Mistral-class amphibious assault and force projection ships. (Landing ships of the Mistral class) In this article I would like to pay more attention to the amphibious ...

For some reason, many military experts believe that the era of missile boats has come to an end. Mass production of these ships fell on the 60-80s. They have reason to believe so - a boat ...

Mistral and Tonnerre BPC (bâtiment de projection et de commandment) are the new French 21300-ton amphibious assault and power projection ships. The ships were built by the DCN in partnership with ...

Russia, which occupies a vast territory in Eurasia, cannot but influence the politics and economy of the continent. And although the Russian borders are washed by the waters of three oceans, it’s impossible to call it a sea power ....

At the beginning of 80, the US began to appear atomic submarines with Tomahawk missiles capable of hitting the target at a distance of 7 thousands of kilometers. In the Soviet Union of. Chelomey after urgently ...

The B-380 first went into service in the 1982 year, and from the year 1991 stood at the pier and required repairs. In 2000, the boat was finally put in repair at the dock "PD-16". However, today the boat and now ...

The end of the naval cooperation between Russia and India may come as a result of the current situation with the Russian nuclear submarine. The contract of the Russian military with the Indian on the lease ...

The recent visit of the head of the military department of the Russian Federation A. Serdyukov ended with an open question about the modernization of the Black Sea Fleet. The main obstacle to the solution of this issue is ...

Replenishment in the Navy: in the 13.00 14.10.2011 of the Year, the naval flag of Russia for the first time hoisted on the multipurpose corvette "Soobrazitelny". SK "Northern Shipyard" handed over the ship, laid back in May ...