... country turn back to the operational strategic approaches employed in similar situations in the past. As a result, the defence system that is now being deployed in the Arctic region to set up the bastions, (so-called “Protected Operating Area” in Russian military terms), may be compared with the central mine and artillery position that the Baltic fleet was primarily tasked to develop and defend during the First World War, now adjusted for geography and technological advancement. The transformation of this concept depends not only on the future development of the Russian economy and the creation ...
... far away from Russia’s borders.
Prospects for Russian Navy amphibious forces development in the wake of the cancelled Mistral contract: ships and equipment
Recent events testify to the fact that the experts promoting the idea of developing the Russian Navy first and foremost as a coastal fleet, capable of controlling the 200-mile exclusive economic zone in peacetime and of defending our seacoast during the war, proved to be wrong.
Russia has political and economic interests away from its shores. Moreover, it has overseas allies and rendering ...
... Norway, Japan and some other countries. The existing tasks necessitate maintaining a fleet of at least 20 such submarines capable of solving problems on closed theaters of naval operations without involving nuclear-powered submarines.
As of today, the Russian fleet has only 18 Paltus-class diesel-electric submarines (better known as Varshavyanka-class), which were built in the 1980-1990s and
most of which are unfit for comba
. The recovery of conventional submarine potential goes in two directions: the repair ...
... the only state to have the political will, resources and technology to build and maintain so powerful a navy. Other maritime powers have been deprived of these factors. Some countries, such as the UK, lack the political will to actively expand their fleet. Others, like Russia, lack the required resources. And others, such as China, India and Turkey, lack the requisite modern technology.
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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
Economic development, the spread of relatively cheap and simple naval technologies, as ...