The “Grand Fleet” of the USSR: scope and price
The fourth shipbuilding program of the Soviet Union was distinguished by two features: it was the first Soviet construction program of the “Big Fleet” and the last one approved in the USSR before the war ...
New ships laid. Not without major surprises
Laid 23 on April 2019, the BDK is fundamentally different from what we know as the 11711 project. Frigates, apparently, will also be different ...
Nuclear reactor for NNSL. Will “Poseidon” lay Dollezhal's egg?
Submarine device "Poseidon". Weapons that caused a lot of controversy. Can it become a source of technology for the submarine fleet? Is there a potential for equipping non-nuclear submarines with small-sized ...
What is wrong with the “newest” PMK of the 12700 project?
In the existing form of the PMC of the 12700 project - a ship "before the first mine" with a modern non-contact fuse, on which either he or his only self-propelled underwater vehicle will explode ...
The night before Tsushima. Why did the hospital ships give out the location of the Russian squadron with lights?
In the course of working with materials about how the last days of the Russian squadrons passed before the Tsushima battle, the author first drew attention to some absurdities in our usual interpretation of detection ...
Idzhisam never dreamed: Type 55 radar destroyers will surprise the Pentagon
China has demonstrated a triumph in the field of shipborne radar architecture. We are talking about the successful finals of the project Type 346B radar complex ...
Frigates and BDK instead of aircraft carriers and atomic destroyers
Reflections on naval news ...
The battle in the northern waters. Time to sum up
The consequences of the "sea battle", in which the naval forces of NATO and the Russian Navy caused themselves serious losses ...
What is wrong with our minesweepers?
Questions of the critical state of the mine defense of the Navy have been raised many times, however, the current mine action forces are not capable against the modern mine threat and have a military-technical backlog ...
Does the fleet need small rocket ships?
Once, small rocket ships (IRAs) were very effective and very dangerous for the enemy percussion means. Is this true in our time? Not really! ...
What is dangerous Sea Hunter and how to deal with it
The United States is actively developing the direction of the unmanned surface ships, and one of the main developments in this area is the anti-submarine defense boat ACTUV / MDUSV / Sea Hunter. In perspective, this ...
"Like" instead of "Husky". What will be the fifth generation Russian submarine
Another turn in the program to create a Russian submarine of a new generation: the research work has been completed under the cipher "Husky" ...
Real threats in the Arctic: from under the water and from the air
The real situation and the balance of forces in the Arctic are far from favorable for Russia. The threats in the Arctic are real, and they emanate from the air and from under the water (ice) ...
Shooting reconnaissance boat "Marine Lizard". A new word in the control of controversial archipelagoes and littorals
The striking reconnaissance boat “Marine Lizard” is considered by the command of the Chinese Navy as a “primary asset” for monitoring the operational-tactical situation “on ...
"Eagles" go for disassembly
TIRK "Kirov" and "Admiral Lazarev" utilize ...
Destroyed management. Single fleet command is long gone
We used to say "navy". But this is a long time "naval units of the land forces" without a single command ...
Jewels of the Russian Imperial Navy. "Pearls" and "Emerald". Madagascar - Tsushima
You can say that Z.P. Rozhestvensky saw "Pearls" and "Emerald" not by scouts, and not "fighting" cruisers, but intended to use them as repetitive ships and for the protection of armored ...
What happened to Lissa. Part of 2. Battleships of Mobile Bay
In the summer of 1862, the Southerners lost Florida and New Orleans. Mobil became for them the only port in the Gulf of Mexico, through which their high-speed vessels could deliver military equipment ...
Thousands of tanks, dozens of battleships, or features of military construction of the USSR before the Great Patriotic War. Fleet
On the programs of shipbuilding in the pre-war military construction of the Soviet Union. In 1920, the young country of the Soviets did not have the means to build the armed forces. Fleet always ...