>The Russian naval website rusnavy.com reports that Russian Black Sea Fleet will receive six Admiral Gorshkov class (Project 22350) frigates, six Lada (Project 677) diesel submarines, two Ivan Gren class (Project 11711) large landing ships, four ships of other projects, modernized bombers Su-24M instead of obsolete versions, and ASW aircrafts, Il-38 instead of amphibious aircrafts... Continue Reading →
>Turkish General Staff announced today that Turkish Coast Guard was conducting a joint exercise with the Russian Coast Guard (Maritime Guard of the Border Service)The exercise started on 20th September will end on 23rd September. The purpose of the exercise is to conduct cross training and search and rescue training, to improve cooperation and good... Continue Reading →
>Dr. Gorenburg from Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has an excellent blog where he tracks the developments in the Russian military. Last few weeks he has written several blog entries about the future of the Russian Navy. I have found his comments interesting and enlightening. He predicts that Ten years from now, Russia... Continue Reading →
>The Slava class cruiser Moskva returned to the Black Sea today. The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was away since April 2010. In June she took part in Vostok-2010 military exercise held in the Sea of Japan. There were rumors that she might be permanently rebased to Vladivostok. Apparently that is not the... Continue Reading →
>© RIA Novosti. Vyacheslav PopovRussian news agency Ria Novosti reports that the fifth Russian Mangust class patrol boat has arrived in Abkhazia to help the former Georgian republic guard its maritime border in the Black Sea.A Russian coast guard division, based at the Black Sea port of Ochamchira in Abkhazia, is expected to have up... Continue Reading →
>© RIA Novosti. Igor ChuprinThis is an interesting coincidence. Little did I know when I wrote almost one week ago that the operational status of Russian submarine Alrosa was doubtful.Today the Russian news portal RIA Novosti ran an article about that submarine. It seems that the repairs work is finished and the submarine is back... Continue Reading →
>Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov, stated that the life of the only operational Bulgarian submarine Slava has expired, and it will probably be retired in the coming months.“Calling it a submarine force is too strong because any such unit must include at least two vessels. As you know, we have only one submarine. Its life... Continue Reading →
>FFG-50 USS Taylor, crew members participated in a compliant visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) exercise with the Turkish navy frigate F240 TCG Yavuz July 19, during exercise Sea Breeze 2010. The two ships used the training opportunity to familiarize themselves with each other’s VBSS equipment and techniques, which is remarkably very similar as most of... Continue Reading →
>The exercise Sea Breeze will end today. But finally I was able to find the names of (almost) all participating ships:US Navy:FFG-50 USS Taylor, frigateTurkish Navy:F-240 TCG Yavuz, frigateP-330 TCG Kılıç, missile boatP-331 TCG Kalkan, missile boatUkrainan Navy:U-402 Konstantin Olshansky, landing shipU-401 Kirovograd, landing sahipU-311 Cherkassy, minesweeperU-331 Mariupol, minesweeperU-360 Genichesk, minesweeperU-206 Dnieper, frigateU-209 Ternopil frigateU-705... Continue Reading →
>This important news slipped my attention last week. Vice Adm. Vladimir Korolyov has been appointed the new commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Korolyov, former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet, replaces Vice Adm. Alexander Kletskov, who will formally retire in August when he passes the mandatory age limit for active service. Russian Navy... Continue Reading →
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