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Before her commissioning on 30 December 1992, she was renamed Nastoychivy. On July 31, 2011, the Navy Day, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the destroyer at the main naval base of the Baltic Fleet in the city of Baltiysk (Kaliningrad region). [3] Currently, Nastoychivy is the flagship of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy. For twenty ...
This improved 956EM version is also the first to be armed with the newer version of SS-N-22, which is reported to have a designation of 3-M80MBE and possibly funded by China (according to Russian sources), and the new missile differs from the older ones mainly in that the range is increased from 120 km (75 mi) to 200 km (120 mi).
Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov; B. Soviet destroyer Bezuprechny (1983) P. Project 23560 Lider-class destroyer; S. Russian destroyer Smetlivy; Soviet destroyer ...
Sovremenny was laid down on 3 March 1976 and launched on 18 November 1978 by Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad. [2] She was commissioned on 25 December 1980.. From 15 January 1985, the ship was on active service in the Mediterranean Sea together with the aircraft carrier Kiev, the cruisers Vitse-Admiral Drozd and Marshal Timoshenko, and the destroyer Otchayanny.
Russia launched a new non-nuclear ballistic missile with medium range on Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Thursday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in a televised statement, marking another ...
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Russia was the second nation, after Great Britain, to build torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs), [1] basing their first ones upon the Yarrow design. [1] Sokol, which was built for Russia by Britain's Yarrow Shipbuilders, was laid down in 1894 and completed in January 1895; she was 190 feet long, displaced 220 tons, and attained a speed of over 30 knots during her trials. [2]
The USS Stewart arriving under tow in San Francisco Bay, California in early March 1946. / Credit: Donald M. McPherson / U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command