"Iron" of the new fleet of Russia
After the collapse of the USSR, the Russian fleet lost a significant part of the surface ship structure due to insufficient financing of operating costs and repair and modernization work ....
One step before winning the sea
A century ago, the Russian fleet played a key role in the war with Germany and Turkey. Autumn 1914 in the Crimea. The velvet season is in full swing like never before, magnolias bloom for a long time. On the Yalta embankment to the sounds ...
New Navy ships of India: INS Kolkata and INS Kamorta
This July has become a landmark for the naval forces of India. With a difference of several days, two new ships were built to the Indian Navy, built according to the latest designs. 10 July ...
German submarines XXI series
The German submarines of the XXI series, without exaggeration, are the best ships of this class in the world. In all the leading naval powers, they have become a role model. What is in ...
The most ambitious aircraft carriers of the world
Modern armed forces should be mobile - months-long trips on war elephants and semi-annual military expeditions on galleys are in the distant past. Now that the account is not even on ...
"Vladimir Monomakh" at the factory sea trials
Official photos of JSC "Central Design Bureau of Marine Engineering" Rubin "strategic nuclear submarine missile cruiser K-551 Vladimir ...
Ships and coastal troops of the Black Sea Fleet began to perform combat training tasks
July 4 in the waters of the Black Sea started the next exercise of the Navy of Russia. In the course of these maneuvers, the units of the Black Sea Fleet were to perform a number of different combat training tasks, ...
The largest amphibious assault ship
In a small cozy museum of the Baltic Fleet, located in the building of a German building in Baltiysk (Kaliningrad region), the guide shows historical relics - first of all ...
The sea starts from the shore
The development of the Russian Navy as a single balanced combat system involves the creation of an adequate force-based system. Such a system is designed to ensure the basing of ships and ships, aircraft ...
The ship-bomb: the history of the "sea kamikaze"
Japanese torpedoes-kaiten, driven by suicide pilots, are widely known in military history, despite the low efficiency and extremely limited use. Few people think about ...
The main stages of development of the marine strategic complexes of the USSR and the USA
Launch of the UGM-27C Polaris A-3 from the USS Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601) atomic submarine rocket carrier 20 November 1978 of the year In the USSR, ten complexes were developed and put into service ...
The 13 tern will see everything ...
Today we are witnessing how unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly entering our lives. Foresters and firefighters, ambulance doctors and geologists, police officers and ...
In Germany, laid the third frigate project F125
Germany continues to build new ships for its naval forces. 4 June at the shipyard ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Hamburg) was laid a new frigate type F125 ....
Russian Navy is ready to accept the newest submarine
At the very end of 2013, representatives of the Ministry of Defense signed the acceptance certificate for the multipurpose nuclear submarine K-560 "Severodvinsk". The lead ship of the project 885 "Ash" was adopted in ...
Low tonnage but important
The “mosquito fleet” of Russia is the last frontier of naval defense. Our rapidly aging and thinning “mosquito fleet” has not yet planned any worthy alternative. First you need to ...
The mystery of the "825 GTS facility"
60 years ago in the Crimea began the construction of one of the most unique fortifications of our time - the "nest of submarines" in Balaklava. They took a subscription from workers and engineers about ...
Submarine Market ATP
The countries of the Asia-Pacific region have already used more than half of the total number of submarines in the world. Over the recent period, submarines in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) ...
How to create a submarine fighter project 705
More than 15 years have passed since the last of the 705 project boats was excluded from the Russian Navy, and there are still disputes in the circles of sailors and shipbuilders. What is on ...
Invisible ship of the XXI century
The destroyers DDG-1000 will be the most expensive for the US Navy. The construction cost for the US Navy of three new destroyers (EM) of the project DDG-1000 "Zumwalt" has increased by more than five years in the last five years.
Exercise "Marine Interaction-2014" completed
On Monday, May 26, at the Chinese naval base Usun (Shanghai), events were held to mark the end of the joint naval interaction-2014 exercises. As part of these exercises, Russian and ...
"Mistral" on the background of the international situation
On April 30, the aft section of the amphibious assault ship dock (DVKD) “Sevastopol” was launched at the Baltic Shipyard (St. Petersburg). In the middle of June she will be sent to the shipbuilding ...
Guest from the future. Invisible and extremely dangerous
The floating pyramid of Cheops, as if coming from another dimension. Which of the eras belongs to this ship? Who and why created this outlandish construction? Perhaps everything is much simpler. The look reflects ...
Domestic anti-submarine bombers. Part II
Simultaneously with the bomb-gun RBU-2500, the staff of the Scientific Research Institute-1 under the direction of N.P. Mazurov worked on the anti-submarine system, designed to complement it. The new CURR-4500A “Burun” system was proposed ...
The enterprise "Zvezdochka" will be engaged in the modernization of "Barracudas"
In the coming years, the Russian navy should receive several new submarines of different classes and projects. In addition to the construction of new submarines, it is planned to modernize several old, ...