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[Pelican]

Navy Lookout Retweeted David Parody@dparody:

Cleaner edits of Russian Navy ships departing the Mediterranean tonight 531 Soobrazitelnyy (Corvette) 545 Stoikiy (Corvette) 494 Admiral Grigorovich (Frigate) and unknown Tanker.
See - https://twitter.com/dparody/status/1649857811956809731

[Brian James]

The oldest active Russian Dry Dock, Nikolayevsky Surgin Dock at Kronstadt, built in 1830/46...after 25 years without use has two Fireboats and a Dive Boat from the Leningrad Naval Base docked in 2020.

[Pelican]

Indications of Poseidon Test Launch From Submarine Belgorod

http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-Po ... OSINT.html

[Pelican]

Unseen Threat: Russia Adds Unusual Defenses To Secretive Navy Base

In a new move, the Russian Navy has started building defenses at a secretive submarine base in the Arctic. The floating barrier is similar to what they have deployed in Crimea to protect against Ukrainian attacks. This is highly unusual.

See - https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... navy-base/

[Brian James]

Russian Intelligence Gathering Ship RFS Kildin, (a converted Moma Class Survey Ship), pictured during a cold move from the Fitting Out Embankment at Admiralty Shipyards where she had undergone a refit, being moved to the Degaussing Station at Lesnaya Gavan Harbour, St Petersburg on June 26th 2023....In Dry Dock earlier.

[Pelican]

Russia's sole aircraft carrier may re-enter service by 2024-end-TASS

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ru ... 023-07-04/ - LFT

[Pelican]

VARIOUS INFO & PHOTOS CAN BE FOUND HERE - https://twitter.com/hashtag/NavalNews?src=hashtag_click

[Brian James]

Russian Corvettes latest upgrade to their CIWS....the Pantsir-M jamming resistant CIWS is equipped with a friend or foe identification system and armed with the naval version of the Pantsir's 57E6 missiles and Hermes-K missiles. Its secondary armament are two six-barreled 30×165mm GSh-6-30K/AO-18KD rotary cannons (range 5 km), same as on Kashtan-M. Pantsir-M is fully automated and can engage up to four targets simultaneously at a range of up to 20 km and can operate as a battery of up to four modules. Pantsir-M can intercept sea skimming missiles flying as low as two meters above the surface. If a target isn't sufficiently destroyed by Pantsir's missile attack it can automatically direct its cannons against it.

[Pelican]

The source said that the cost of repairing "Admiral Nakhimov" exceeded 200 billion rubles.

MOSCOW, 24 August. /TASS/. The cost of repair and modernization of the heavy nuclear missile cruiser (TARKR) "Admiral Nakhimov" of project 1144.2 "Orlan" of the Northern Fleet, carried out at Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), has already exceeded 200 billion rubles. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian Navy.
Continues at - https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/18573155

[jbryce1437]

The source said that the cost of repairing "Admiral Nakhimov" exceeded 200 billion rubles.

Equates to £1,669,176,224.40 Pounds sterling


Jim