Russian Navy: Status & News #2

Project 11551 destroyer "Admiral Chabanenko" docked for repairs which will last 3 years

Military airfield Severomorsk-1 of the Northern Fleet and Chkalov οf the Baltic Fleet will be completed and put into operation in 2015. This was stated by Chief of Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy, Major General Igor Kozhin, according to TASS.

http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201502100517-pmu2.htm

So these 2 airfields will probably get Su-30SM

On Sevmash for the first time, at the same time are being built several nuclear submarines

Repair of Neustrashimy patrol ship

Russia Grows Maritime Potential, Returns to Global Geopolitics

Russia returns to global politics, signaling of intention to regain its geopolitical positions as a naval power.

Ekaterina Blinova — Russia is growing its maritime potential, signaling its intention to regain geopolitical power as a naval force, according to experts.

In the midst of withstanding NATO expansion in Eastern Europe and closely observing its national interests in the Middle East, Russia is also strengthening its military presence off its eastern coasts – in the Pacific region – where the geopolitical interests of Moscow and Beijing are overlapping.

Experts point out that for Russia and China the American pivot to East Asia and the Asia-Pacific poses a serious challenge. At the same time both Moscow and Beijing are in territorial disputes with Tokyo; wjth the balance of power in the Korean peninsula also viewed by the two global players as a guarantee for stability in the region.

So far, Moscow has been upgrading and modernizing its Pacific Fleet units, and holding joint naval drills with China on a regular basis for the last five years. Additionally, Russia's Pacific Fleet is participating in multi-national anti-piracy operations off Northeast Africa's coasts and expanding its Arctic missions.

Military analysts point out that over the last two years the Pacific Fleet has obtained new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) and Dyugon-class landing craft; Russia's second-biggest fleet will also receive the multipurpose Steregushchy-class corvettes and Yasen-class multipurpose attack nuclear submarines (SSGN) as a part of 20-year naval re-armament program.

It is also worth mentioning that Russia expects eight Borei-class vessels to enter service by 2020, while the missile-carrying nuclear submarines "Vladimir Monomakh" and "Alexander Nevskiy" will join Russia's Navy Force in the Far East this year.

Each Borei-class submarine can carry up to 16 Bulava ballistic missiles (SLBM) which are reportedly capable of overcomng US missile defense systems, making the Pacific Fleet an effective military "shield" of Russia in the Far East and bolstering its retaliatory capacity.

Meanwhile, in 2014 Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced of an ambitious plan to expand Russia's naval presence overseas, setting up access rights for Russia to foreign ports.

Remarkably, during his last visit to Latin America in February 2015, Sergei Shoigu signed a number of important deals strengthening military collaboration between Russia and Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, including agreements, allowing Russian warships to enter the countries' ports.

According to experts, Russia's naval visits to overseas havens have increased substantially over the last three years, including ports of Vietnam, the Seychelles and Singapore.

Russia's gradual naval expansion demonstrates the country's intention to regain its global position as an influential naval power, experts noted, marking Russia's return to classic geopolitics backed up by strong military fleet.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20150308/1019224812.html#ixzz3TnsjrOMv

Three boats "Raptor" entered the fleet

As reported March 5, 2015 in a press release of "Leningrad Shipyard" Pella ", at the naval base of the Black Sea Fleet in Novorossiysk State selection committee made the acceptance of three built by this company patrol boats of the project 03160 (code "Raptor") with construction numbers 701, 702 and 703, intended to serve in the Russian Navy.

Viktor wrote:Nice  

In Russia, work began on the creation of nuclear-powered submarines of the fifth generation

they mean new design or the continuation of building of Yasen?

Russia to upgrade 10 multi-purpose nuclear submarines (Acula and Oscar class) by 2020 — Navy chief

All armament and vital systems will be new, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief said, adding new hydro-acoustic and navigation equipment, control and communication systems would be installed on submarines

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Zvyozdochka shipyard in the country’s northwest and the Zvezda Far Eastern plant will be able to modernize about ten project 971 and project 949A nuclear submarines, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Chirkov said on Thursday.

"This actually means recommissioning a grouping of multi-purpose nuclear submarines with upgraded characteristics, which will operate in the Northern and Pacific Fleets," the Navy chief said on occasion of Submariner Day, which Russia is celebrating on Thursday.

The requirements for modernizing these submarines were clearly formulated by the Defense Ministry and the Navy’s command and work is proceeding under the Navy’s daily control, Chirkov said.

Profound modernization will leave only the hulls of these submarines intact, the Navy chief said.

"All armament and vital systems will be new," he said, adding new hydro-acoustic and navigation equipment, control and communication systems would be installed on submarines.

"The service life of project 971 and project 949A multirole nuclear submarines will be almost doubled while improved tactical and technical characteristics will help considerably increase the efficiency of the use of these submarines in the Russian Navy’s submarine fleet," Chirkov said.

The Russian Navy has also assigned the domestic defense industry the task to develop 5th-generation submarines, Chirkov said.

"We have formulated the task for the defense and industrial sector to develop fifth-generation submarines. This work is ongoing. There will be no pauses in the development and designing of new submarines," he said.

The need for the development of such submarines is prompted by the "objective timeframe and the cyclical nature of the use of ships and submarines, and also the swift advance of ship-building technologies and scientific and technical progress in the field of submarine-building," the Navy chief said.

Russia should look far ahead in the development of its nuclear submarine fleet to avoid any stagnation, he said.

Until 2020, Russia will work actively on building fourth-generation submarines, the Navy chief said.

"This process is accompanied by the work to maintain the combat readiness of existing-project strategic nuclear submarines and their basic armaments," the Navy chief said.