Severodvinsk, 1 November 2025 - The nuclear-powered submarine "Khabarovsk" (project 09851) has been launched at the Sevmash production association's shipyard. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, it is the first series-produced carrier of the autonomous nuclear torpedo "Poseidon". Unlike the "Belgorod", which was built as a one-off conversion, the "Khabarovsk" marks the beginning...
In mid-August, the fifth Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate (project 22350, 135 metres, 5,400 tonnes) was christened "Admiral Amelko" and launched at the Severnaya-Verf (Northen Shipyard) in Saint Petersburg in the presence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Russian Federation, Admiral Alexander Moiseyev. While the "Amelko" and the...
The Russian diesel-electric submarine "Novorossiysk" (Project 636.3, Improved Kilo) has been making contradictory headlines since last weekend. While opposition Telegram channels from Russia are reporting a serious technical defect on board, including a fuel leak with a risk of explosion and a lack of spare parts, NATO observations on the European Atlantic coast have so far painted a different picture.
Western observers' questions about the surprising departure of three Northern Fleet warships from Baltic waters before St Petersburg Navy Day and the speculation surrounding a finding by the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) about the threat posed by Ukrainian drones have now been answered: As the...
The "Yasen" class (Project 885/885M, 133 metres, 12,000 tonnes submerged) is the benchmark for Russia's nuclear-powered attack submarines. The type boat K-560 "Severodvinsk" has been on its keel for 30 years, but the subsequently modified M-boats only followed a good 15 years later. The construction numbers 2 and 3, K-561...
The guided missile frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" (type ship, project 22350, 135 metres, 4,500 tonnes) allegedly left Severomorsk, the Arctic home port of the Russian Northern Fleet off Murmansk on Kola Bay, shortly before the end of the year with a load of nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles "Zircon". According to Moscow, it will be used as a command platform from January to lead a convoy towards the Mediterranean...
A Russian convoy consisting of the cruiser "Marshal Ustinov" (Slava class, project 1164, sister ship of the "Moskva"), the destroyer "Vice Admiral Kulakov" (type ship of the Udaloy class, project 1155) and the tanker "Vyazma" (Kaliningradneft class) is reportedly on a transfer from the Mediterranean back to the Northern Fleet and its home ports on the Barents Sea. The...
On the morning of 7 July 2022, the Russian frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" (Hull number 454) passed through the Fehmarnbelt. The ship, which belongs to the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, is expected to take part in the Russian Navy's naval parade in Kronstadt/St. Petersburg. Remarkably, the 3D surveillance radar FURKE rotated. This appears to be unusual in that Russian units in the Russian...
Following manoeuvres by the Baltic Fleet in the Baltic Sea and the Russian Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea, units of the Black Sea Fleet have now also left their bases for training exercises, according to the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. Here, too, more than twenty ships and boats are said to be travelling from the...
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