The transit of a Russian submarine from the Mediterranean took an unusually long time. It turned into a communications drama for no good reason. The redeployment of the Russian submarine NOWOROSSIJSK from the Mediterranean in October 2025 attracted unusual attention in the media, security policy circles and political commentary. According to everything that optical reconnaissance, Russian shipyard signals and movement data...
Return to the Baltic Sea On 7 May 2025, the Russian submarine "Krasnodar" (B-265), a boat of the improved Kilo class (project 636.3, Russian "Varshavyanka"), passed through the Danish straits together with the ocean-going tug "Evgeniy Churov" (SB-921) in the direction of the Baltic Sea. A few days later, the unit arrived at its home port of Kronstadt as planned. The escort unit...
At the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation had six conventional submarines of the Varshavyanka class (Project 636.3, Improved Kilo). Two boats ("Novorossiysk", "Krasnodar") were transferred to the Mediterranean before the start of the war and have not yet been able to return to the Black Sea, while "Rostov-on-Don" was lost in Sevastopol in September 2023 by...
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...On the last weekend in January, the large workshop ship "PM-82" of the Russian Navy could be seen travelling eastwards in the Fehmarnbelt. The Amur-class vessel (project 304, 122 metres, 5,600 tonnes) was accompanied on its journey from Tartus in Syria to Baltiysk by the support ship, which has been shuttling between the Baltic Sea and the Middle East for almost a year...
After taking part in the Russian Navy Day celebrations in Saint Petersburg at the end of July, the new submarine "Magadan" (B-602) of the modified Kilo II class (project 636.3) was allowed to embark on a relocation voyage lasting several months. The submarine, which was put into service on 12 October 2021, was deployed on the 9,000 nautical mile...
On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defence published a video sequence on the Telegram messaging service showing the underwater launch of a Kalibr cruise missile from a conventional Kilo III-class submarine in the Black Sea, aimed at Ukraine. Whatever the optics have captured - it has not become a documentary masterpiece! The shots in the...
The rejuvenation of the Russian Federation's conventional diesel-electric submarines is slowly nearing completion. The Kilo class (project 877/636) already comprises 24 boats with a fairly equal distribution between the three fleets, with the first boats already looking back on forty years of service. At the end of October, the "Volkov", the second boat of the third...
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