Naval forces in the Black Sea theater
The Turkish fleet is the strongest and most powerful on the Black Sea, both in terms of the number of combatants and the total combat power. The basis of the battle line of the Turkish fleet are 8 frigates MEKO 200, ...
Small, but very dangerous for the enemy
“A wonderful“ Alpha ”was named by the US Navy specialists of the Soviet nuclear submarine of the 705 Project. At the end of 1958, when the state tests of the first national nuclear submarine passed, the State Committee ...
The navy of Russia will be replenished with invisible ships
31 March 2010, in St. Petersburg, another combat ship designed for the Russian Navy, the corvette Soobrazitelny, was launched. The new corvette is the second separate combat unit ...
China is preparing a carrier fleet
At the end of July, the Ministry of National Defense of China officially announced that it would soon begin testing its first aircraft carrier. This 300-meter ship is now ...
The balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region and aircraft carriers
So far, Russian Defense Minister A. Serdyukov says that we have no plans to build aircraft carriers, even in the long term, in Beijing, Delhi, Tokyo, think differently. Celestial completes from the former ...
Where was born, there was not useful
The air-cushion landing craft (DKVP) of the 12061E project (code Murena-E), created by the Almaz Central Maritime Design Bureau, is practically the only one currently available ...
The Northern Fleet restores the navigation regime of the Soviet Navy
In recent years, the saturation of exercises in the Northern Fleet has increased by almost a quarter. The ships of the fleet regularly take part in long-distance expeditions to the Indian and Atlantic ...
Why does Russia need a nuclear fleet?
Last week was marked by a number of statements by the heads of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian military-industrial complex. President of the United Shipbuilding Company (USC) R. Trotsenko during the International ...
Are there any strategic weapons on the Russian Black Sea Fleet?
It is necessary to return strategic aviation to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Major General A.Otroschenko, the head of the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, said this in an interview ...
Invisible ships become reality
In order to incapacitate a modern warship, the 1 of a successful missile hit is enough. With all this, even shoot down one anti-ship missile launched - it is difficult. And in that case ...
Great Underwater Wall
Past, Present and Future of Chinese Atomic Submarines In 2009, the PRC Navy celebrated two significant dates - the 55 anniversary of the formation of national submarine forces and the 35 anniversary of the commissioning ...
Nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles Project 941 "Shark" (NATO-Typhon)
At the beginning of the 70s in the United States (as the Western media wrote, in response to the creation of the Delta complex in the USSR), the implementation of the large-scale Trident program began, involving the creation of a new ...
Ships of the future at the Navy Salon in St. Petersburg
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Vladimir Vysotsky and Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko right after the solemn ...
Will Russia build aircraft carriers?
On Wednesday, June 29, the 5th International Maritime Defense Show began its work in St. Petersburg. The organizer of the grand event is the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation with the support of ...
Project armored "Gyurza"
Russian and Ukrainian shipyards have many years of experience in design work, construction and modernization of river warships of various classes and sizes. From the beginning of the twentieth century they were built ...
Carriers go out of fashion? (Wired.com United States)
For seventy years, they have personified the power of the United States. When a conflict broke out in the world, it was the American aircraft carriers - fast, mobile and having such firepower, which ...
Ships of wide profile
The Russian Navy needs to be replenished quickly — primarily with frigates and corvettes capable of performing a wide range of tasks. Difficulties encountered in the construction of modern ...
The US Navy sentenced to destruction a unique stealth ship Sea Shadow
The US Navy has decided to cut into metal the unique ship Sea Shadow ("Sea Shadow"), built in the 1980s using "stealth" technology, reports the news ...
Corvette is finally ready!
Soon the next naval salon will open in St. Petersburg, where the second corvette of the 20380 project will be demonstrated. In the summer of this year, he should be commissioned by the Russian Navy, ...
Submarine fleet: the main offensive force of the Israeli Navy
Israeli command submarines are defined as “the main offensive force of the Navy,” but they should also collect intelligence information both in times of peace and during wars and ...
Flying over the waves
When on one of the days in the second half of 1960, another report with the results of deciphering photos of a spy satellite lay on the table of the director of the US National Intelligence Directorate, he did not believe ...
The American magazine listed four significant shortcomings of the Chinese "Varyag"
1 June in one of the American military journals listed four significant shortcomings of the Chinese aircraft carrier Shi Lang, which is an unfinished version of the Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, ...
Marine scuba weapons: challenges and opportunities
Our fleet today is forced to buy expensive and morally obsolete torpedoes. The unconditional mistake made in the USSR in the 50s was the monopolization of the development of the homing system (CLS) ...
The fate of the fleet superintelligence
The unique nuclear ship "Ural" 25 rusts for years without the use of the atomic reconnaissance ship "Ural" of the 1941 project moored to one of the Far Eastern berths with a list of five ...