Three people were killed while four others suffered varying degrees of injury after a fishing vessel was accidentally struck by a missile fired from a Russian Navy ship in the Baltic Sea off Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Tuesday, March 19. The crew of the locally-owned trawler Kapitan Lobanov said...
March 10 (Reuters) – Russia has appointed Admiral Alexander Moiseev as acting commander-in-chief of the Russian navy, the Fontanka news outlet reported on Sunday, citing unidentified sources. Reuters could not immediately verify the…
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Both the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the current attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are graphically illustrating the efficacy of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) in the maritime domain. UAVs offer economical, high-endurance search, surveillance, and attack capabilities. Therefore, their use by naval...
(Bloomberg) Russia has based its Black Sea fleet in Crimea for 240 years. Now President Vladimir Putin is at risk of losing the flagship naval hub as Ukraine steps up…
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China is not the only potentially adversarial maritime power that is flexing its muscles in the Indo-Pacific region. Russia is a cause for concern, too. Alexey D Muraviev (TheConversation) China’s…
The Russian Navy welcomes two new submarines into service as trials begin for a fisheries protection vessel for a UK operator. The Royal New Zealand Navy will conduct testing of an unmanned vehicle powered by renewable energy sources. Finally, an order has been placed for a minehunting remotely...
Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant, a division under Russia’s state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), has completed construction of a new mine countermeasures vessel ordered by the Russian Navy. Lev Chernavin is the eighth minesweeper to be built under Project 12700, otherwise known as the Alexandrit-class. The vessel honours the late Lev Davydovich Chernavin, a former Soviet Navy […]
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The Russian Navy acquires a submarine while a future Italian Navy surface combatant is launched into the water for the first time. A US builder unveils a new series of battery-powered patrol boats. Finally, the Portuguese Navy places an order for a multi-role vessel for maritime security, research, and emergency response roles. New Project 636.3 […]
Vympel Shipyard, a division of Russia’s state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, has handed over a new small hydrographic survey vessel to the Russian Navy. The vessel has been named Yakov Lapushkin in honour of a navy admiral best known for heading the Soviet Navy’s hydrographic arm during the...
By Aliaksandr Kudrytski (Bloomberg) Ukraine said naval drones struck Russian military ships in Crimea overnight in a new attack aimed at disabling defenses on the occupied peninsula. The attack damaged…