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The National Interest Online (blog)
April 28, 2018
As it is already nearly thirty years old, it is unclear how much more service the Russian Navy can wring from the hull. ... In short, China has recent experience building large aviation warships, while Russia has no experience building a surface ship larger than a destroyer since the end of the Cold War.
NavyTimes.com
April 17, 2018
Missiles streak across the Damascus skyline as the U.S. launches an attack on Syrian chemical weapons sites on April 14, 2018. To the surprise of Syrian forces and their Russian allies, none of the missiles came from the well-positioned guided-missile destroyer Donald Cook. (Hassan Ammar/AP). The guided-missileÃâà...
India Today
April 17, 2018
Moving closer towards buying four advanced warships for the Navy, India has finalised the price of the vessels to be bought directly from Russia at around USD ... After Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharamans visit to Russia, the Russian and Indian sides have completed the price negotiations for the RussianÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 17, 2018
In 2016, India and Russia were negotiating a possible sale of three Admiral Grigorovich-class guided-missile frigates to the Indian Navy and signed an inter-governmental agreement. The three ships, laid down in Kaliningrad in 2013 and originally destined for the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, wereÃâà...
Business Insider
April 16, 2018
When President Donald Trump threatened to strike Syria, the US Navy had only one destroyer in the region — leading people to assume it would take part. But when the attack occurred, that ship didn't fire — suggesting it may have been a distraction ploy. Instead, ships in the Red Sea fired a large portion of the missiles,Ãâà...
PortNews IAA
April 2, 2018
Ships are continuing to work out scheduled training tasks in the sea in northeast Russia, says press center of RF Defence Ministry. Today, ships have held drills on eliminating the simulated enemy's surface and air targets in the Avacha Bay. The small ASW ship MPK-82 conducted three artillery firings at theÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 2, 2018
The Army and Navy are operating together in the Pacific to fire ground artillery from Navy ships, send targeting data to land weapons from Navy ... such as the advanced Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), Maritime Tomahawk and an over-the-horizon weapon for the Littoral Combat Ship and Frigate.
Big Think (blog)
April 2, 2018
“We are now seeing Russian underwater activity in the vicinity of undersea cables that I don't believe we have ever seen,” said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Andrew Lennon, the commander of NATO's submarine forces. “Russia is clearly taking an interest in NATO and NATO nations' undersea infrastructure.”.
Business Insider
April 2, 2018
Every year, on July 29, the Russian Navy's ships, sailors, infantry, and aircraft come out in full force for parades in ports all across the country. Over 40 ships ... A warship floats past the Dvortsovy (Palace) drawbridge rising above the Neva River during a Naval parade rehearsal in St.Petersburg, Russia, July 21, 2017.
Express.co.uk
April 2, 2018
A RUSSIAN warship has sailed through the Mediterranean and is headed towards Europe today after Russian president Vladimir Putin's foreign minister suggested the poisoning of Sergei Skripal could have been in the UK's interests to cover up the Government's “failure” to secure a good Brexit deal.
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 1, 2018
The Navy hopes to increase its current submarine construction op-tempo and build as many as three Virginia-class submarines per year to more rapidly address the services' attack submarine deficit. The previous status quo had been for the Navy to drop from building two Virginia-Class boats per year toÃâà...
CBS News
March 30, 2018
Rossiya, a Russian state TV network, has said the Yantar can not only connect to top-secret cables, but could cut them and "jam underwater sensors with a special system." Russia's Defense Ministry did not respond to a request for comment. There is no hard evidence that the ship is engaged in nefariousÃâà...
The Independent Barents Observer
March 2, 2018
The ship was on its way back to home port of Severomorsk as it this week tested its guns outside the northern coast of Norway. The exercise included return of fire against an attacking simulating enemy, a press release from the Northern Fleet informs. In addition, operators of the ship's mobile air-defenseÃâà...
Polygraph.info
March 2, 2018
It was the first time the two warships deployed in the area simultaneously after participating in drills in the area in July. Equipped with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, the ships are forward deployed to Naval Station Rota in Spain but on this deployment have docked at the Varna and ConstantaÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
February 28, 2018
The massive ships have never figured significantly in the Soviet or Russian naval inventory. Currently, Russia has only one carrier—the significantly smaller Admiral Kuznetsov—launched in 1985. Multiple mechanical problems have plagued the ship ever since, and she doesn't go anywhere without anÃâà...
Express.co.uk
February 24, 2018
... Russian ships passing through the Channel. The latest flotilla was returning from supporting Russia's campaign in Syria. They were tracked up the Bay of Biscay by the French Navy which handed them on to 1,700-ton HMS Mersey. It followed them through the Channel before the Dutch Navy took over.
Telegraph.co.uk
February 22, 2018
The Royal Navy was criticised on Thursdayfor using a patrol vessel rather than a frigate to escort a Russian naval flotilla through the English Channel. For the third time in two months the Russians sent their ships past the UK's southern coast, when the spy ship Feodor Golovin, landing ship AlexanderÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
The U.S. Navy has sent a missile destroyer to Europe's Black Sea to join another warship, the USS Ross, in a move that risks irking Russia once again. ... Despite previous Russian requests to keep U.S. forces out of the region where Moscow once had four out of the five foreign navies under its thumb,Ãâà...
NavyTimes.com
February 20, 2018
“Our decision to have two ships simultaneously operate in the Black Sea is proactive, not reactive,” said Vice Adm. Christopher Grady, commander of 6th Fleet, which oversees U.S. naval operations in the region. “The continued presence of the U.S. Navy in the Black Sea demonstrates our enduringÃâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
Russia's navy appears to have responded to President Donald Trump's warning that US missiles are headed to Syria, as well as the US Navy's deployment of an aircraft carrier to the region. The Russian military has said it is tracking the movements of the US Navy. In the past, the US has used Navy ships toÃâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
Russia's navy left port in Syria out of concern for its safety after President Donald Trump threatened a strike against Syria. Russia says the US has been in contact with it, and a Russian report says the US will let it know ahead of time where it will strike to avoid Russian casualties. But the move of Russia'sÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
The Russian Navy has at least two Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates, which can launch cruise missiles, in the Mediterranean as well as submarines and support vessels, Reuters reports. There are also dozens of Russian warplanes stationed at the Hmeymim airbase in Syria. Russia also has an advancedÃâà...
TASS
December 31, 1999
MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. Russian warships and submarines are keeping an eye on US and NATO ships in the Eastern Mediterranean, a military diplomatic source said on Friday. "Warships and submarines of the Russian naval taskforce are keeping track at a close distance of US and NATO assaultÃâà...
TASS
December 31, 1999
Over 40 warships to take part in Russia's naval parade in 2018 ... One of them is the small missile ship Uragan whose construction was completed in 2018. Also, 25 ... Last year, along with warships, boats, submarines and aircraft making part of the Russian Navy, the Main Naval Parade showed off the mostÃâà...
TASS
December 31, 1999
MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. February 28, 2018 will mark ten years since the Project 20380 lead ship Steregushchiy was accepted for service in the Russian Navy. Project 20380/20385 warships are a series of multi-purpose corvettes (guard ships) developed for the Russian Navy for coastal water operations.
Stars and Stripes
December 31, 1999
The navy also played a large part in Russia's intervention in Syria on behalf of President Bashar Assad. Russia's fleet is now establishing a permanent presence in Syria by leasing a mooring facility at the Tartus base that will be expanded to hold 11 warships, Petersen said. This could lead to more RussianÃâà...
