Major surface combatants Future aircraft carriers. In 2005, it was announced that the Russian Navy was planning a class of two to four new aircraft carriers, the production of which could start in 2013–14 for initial service entry in 2017. Jane’s said it was not clear whether “this was a funded programme”.

French navy ship equipped with cruise missiles that could strike Assad was ‘aggressively buzzed by a Russian warplane’ in the Mediterranean. A naval source said the low-flying Russian warplane flew over a French warship

“Essentially, we have the disappearance of the Soviet blue water navy and the transition to something like a green water navy,” Michael Kofman, a research scientist specializing in Russian military affairs at the Center for Naval Analyses told The National Interest.. The modern Russian surface fleet retained traditional Soviet tasks of defending the ballistic …

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the USA within the bounds of its capacities supports and organizes various cultural events. The Embassy’s cinema club is a venue for regular screenings of Russian movies, which always appeal to the interest of English-speaking audience.

As the situation in Syria continues to escalate, guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook has weighed anchor off Syrian territorial waters, and is reportedly being “harassed” by low-flying Russian warplanes, which have buzzed the “Arleigh Burke” class warship at least four times according to CNN

In Memory of Chief Yeoman of Signals George Smith, DSM, Royal Navy 1904-28 (Part 2 of 7). NORTH RUSSIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 1919, …

has russian and chinese missile technology doomed the u.s. navy in the upcoming planned third world war?

Today, 6 decades later, the U.S. Navy and its hostage-along-for-the-ride, the marines have been hampered by their own narrow, egotistical way of operating from the sea trying to relive only part of what worked in WW2 that gratifies the ego (Seaplanes and LTA Blimps excluded). To patrol the seas for subs, land-based civilian turboprop airliners …

This List of active Russian Navy ships presents a picture which can never be fully agreed upon in the absence of greater data availability and a consistent standard for which ships are considered operational or not. The Soviet Navy, and the Russian Navy which inherited its traditions, had a different attitude to operational status than many …

Apr 11, 2018 · Alexei Kondratyev, a deputy head of the upper house’s defense committee, said on Wednesday that in addition to ground-based air defense systems that Russia has in Syria. the Russian navy in the eastern Mediterranean will also be involved in fending off a potential attack.