Login

 

Forgot password?
Vote History of votings
Subscription

Modify subscription

submarines shipbuilding Black Sea Fleet exercise Pacific Fleet Russian Navy Northern Fleet strategy cooperation Ukraine visits Russia piracy missiles trials Sevastopol history Sevmash presence contracts drills Baltic Fleet industry incident anti-piracy shipyards training Gulf of Aden frigate Somalia India developments reforms opinion Borei policy procurements Russia - India aircraft carrier Crimea arms exports USA St. Petersburg tests France financing Bulava Yury Dolgoruky US Navy Serdiukov cruise Mediterranean Zvezdochka NATO innovations United Shipbuilding Corporation Indian Navy Medvedev Arctic agreements commission Admiralteyskie Verfi Admiral Gorshkov Vladivostok Mistral accident hijacking corvettes overhaul Russia - France Admiral Kuznetsov anniversary Rosoboronexport Vysotsky event ceremony Yantar Severomorsk defense order negotiations conflict aircraft China deployment naval aviation Putin investigations Black Sea Varyag coast guard Vikramaditya Novorossiysk landing craft Far East crime marines Severnaya Verf meeting scandals memorials Syria traditions Japan escort South Korea statistics Neustrashimy Yasen tenders Admiral Chabanenko convoys Marshal Shaposhnikov Ukrainian Navy Chirkov problems Severodvinsk reinforcement tension tragedy technology firings provocation frontier service Baltic Sea Almaz upgrade hostages search and rescue Caspian Flotilla Moskva court Dmitry Donskoy rumors Turkey keel laying helicopters Kilo class death Admiral Panteleyev Atalanta Kaliningrad World War II shipwreck Petr Veliky Rubin Admiral Vinogradov Norway launching delivery patrols
Search
Strategy strategy Combat Capability [42%], Role and Missions, Structure of the Navy, in-service ships, surface ships, submarines, chronology.
Our friends russian navy weapons world sailing ships
 
Tell a friend Print version

Home / News / News of the day

Destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov Started Escorting First Convoy

Destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov Started Escorting First Convoy 16.05.2012
Text: B-Port
Photo: Destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov. Western Military District Press Service
Northern Fleet (NF) destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov on May 15 started her anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden by escorting the first merchant convoy.

The convoy was formed at assigned point in southern part of the Red Sea. It consists of four merchant vessels flying flags of Marshall Islands, Panama, and Turkey.

Crew of the Russian destroyer will have to escort foreign ships through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the destination point in the western part of the Arabian Sea.

The trip is going to be finished on Friday. Then the Russian warship will escort another convoy backwards.

NF destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov left the fleet's main base Severomorsk on Apr 6. Through her cruise, the ship has covered about 6,000 nautical miles. In Apr 2012, destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov paid a formal call at port of Souda (Greece) where the ship's officers and mariners had an opportunity to visit NATO's international naval operations training center. The NF mariners exchanged counter-piracy experience with their foreign colleagues and held a number of practical drills. Leading the Russian Navy's task unit formed in the Mediterranean Sea, destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov on Apr 29 passed the Suez Canal and entered the Red Sea, reports Northern Fleet's press service.

Back to the list

Related Information:

News of the day
Russian Navy News