The Indian navy will use the refitted Russian aircraft-carrier Admiral Gorshkov for a year-long sea-trail in the Barents Sea slated for 2011-2012. Also, what is said to be the final price-tag for the takeover of the second-hand aircraft-carrier was agreed in New Delhi on Wednesday.
FSB’s coast guard in Murmansk has received a new vessel to use in the fight against poachers. “Sprut” was supposed to become the first in a series of modern coast guard vessels, but the project is now terminated.
Russian Minister of Defence Anatoly Serdyukov wants to cut the number of military towns from 8000 to 184. That will especially affect the Russian North.
The Russian Ministry of Defence on Tuesday rebuffed unofficial information about the loss of 200 aircrafts and helicopters in a wild fire in Kolomna, near Moscow. The air base houses parts of the Navy’s aircrafts.
A large-scale military exercise involving several submarines, surface vessels, aviation and more than four thousand men is currently unfolding in the Barents Sea. Also test shooting with the S-300 missile system is part of the training.
Plans to use Typhoon submarines for under-ice deliveries of oil and ore in Arctic waters is inexpedient, says the designer of the world’s largest ever built submarine.
Jet-fighters from Bodø airbase in Northern Norway take off Monday to take part in the international military operation to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.
After 18 years of construction, Russia’s first multi-armed Graney-class nuclear powered submarine set course to the White Sea on Monday for the first sea trails.