Russian Navy News

11/29/2007
Submarines in “sensitive areas”
Sources in the Norwegian Armed Forces confirm that Russian submarines have intensified training activities in areas outside the Norwegian coast. Orion aircrafts have dropped listening equipment to find the vessel.

11/26/2007
Russia continues reshuffle of Navy top brass
Russia's Navy will soon have new commanders of its two main fleets in the Baltic and Pacific, as part of a major military leadership reshuffle, a high-ranking Defense Ministry source said on Friday.

11/20/2007
Admiral Gorshkov overhaul slow, could be delayed - contractor
The overhaul of a Russian-made aircraft carrier sold to India under a 2004 contract could be delayed indefinitely, a source at the Sevmash shipyard said Tuesday.

11/19/2007
Navy joins search for Russian cargo ship in Caspian Sea
A Russian frigate will join the search for a Russian cargo vessel that has been missing in the Caspian Sea since Saturday morning, a Navy spokesman said Monday.

11/15/2007
Russian shipyards did not want to build research vessel
The Russian government allocated 2.4 billion RUB for the construction of a new major Polar research vessel. However, no Russian shipyards wanted to build the vessel.

11/12/2007
Russia to build ice-protected coast guard vessel
The Russian Federal Security Service is to hold a tender on the construction of a new ice-protected coast guard vessel for its border guard service. The vessel, which will have both civil and military functions, will be able to operate in 1,5 meter thick ice.

11/10/2007
Russian ship joins anti-smuggling operation in Black Sea
The Zheleznyakov minesweeper has joined a Turkey-led international operation to deter illegal trading and smuggling on the Black Sea, the Russian Navy's spokesman said Wednesday.

11/08/2007
Navy team to discuss Gorshkov price hike with Russia
Days ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Russia, a top-level Indian Navy delegation is heading for Moscow to discuss the delay and price escalation in the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier deal — perhaps, the most thorny issue between the two countries.

11/08/2007
The Arctic: rivalry or cooperation?
Russia should work more within the international community in resolving Arctic issues - including ones that are not directly related to oil and gas extraction.

10/29/2007
Goodbye to Poland's Tarantul Missile Craft
The Polish navy is decommissioning its two Russian-built Tarantul-class fast attack craft in 2008, the commander of the service's fast patrol boat squadron has told an international naval conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

10/29/2007
France to Help Russia Design Submarines?
France's semi-private naval design & construction firm DCNS has signed a "purchase general contract" for R&D cooperation with Russia's the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute, via Rosoboronexport.

10/29/2007
Navy Museum Adds Two Exhibits
The museum-memorial complex of the Russian Navy Museum has reached the second stage of its realization.

10/29/2007
The landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet completed its program in a Greel port of Pirei
The landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet- “Caesar Kunikov”- completed its program in a Greel port of Pirei on Saturday and charted a course towards the Black Sea straits.

10/29/2007
Iran and Russia may establish joint Navy in Caspian Sea
Iran will join a Russian-proposed joint naval task force in the Caspian region only after the legal status of the Caspian Sea has been determined, an Iranian analyst said.

10/06/2007
The 21-th anniversary since the Russian “K-219” ballistic missile submarine catastrophe
Today is the 21-th anniversary since the Russian “K-219” ballistic missile submarine catastrophe.  
On 3 October 1986, while on patrol 680 miles (1100 km) northeast of Bermuda, K-219 suffered an explosion and fire in a missile tube

10/05/2007
Fifty years after Sputnik streaked into the sky on Oct. 4 1957
It is hard to imagine that a metal ball about the size of a basketball could throw the United States into panic

09/20/2007
“North Pole – 35” has been deployed on the ice
Today the regularly scheduled Russian floating station calling by “North Pole – 35” has been deployed on the ice. More then 20 scientists from Russia and Germany combined in a team have started research activity on the ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.

09/14/2007
U.S. develops 14-ton super bomb, bigger than Russian vacuum bomb
The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday.

09/14/2007
India set to launch first underwater-based missile
India could soon test its first submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Press Trust of India quoted the Defense Ministry as saying Tuesday, denying that it has already test-fired an SLBM.

09/14/2007
Russian Navy commander dismissed - military source
Commander of the Russian Navy, Fleet Admiral Vladimir Masorin has been dismissed due to length-of-service limitations, a Defense Ministry's source told RIA Novosti Thursday.