March 28, 2019 – USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) returned to sea March 28 following a scheduled planned incremental availability (PIA) during which the ship received innovative upgrades. One of the upgrades of note was the installation of the NULKA decoy system. “A disciplined and thoughtful approach to the basics brought us here,” said Capt. Kyle Higgins, Ike’s commanding…
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March 15, 2019 (Google Translation) – The rocket ships Dagestan and Tatarstan, as well as the small rocket ship Uglich of the Caspian Flotilla, within the framework of working out the K-2 course task, struck ground targets simulating a submerged enemy command center on Chechen Island. In the course of fulfilling combat training tasks, the naval group struck from the…
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October 14, 2018 (Google Translation) – The RF Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov inspected progress of arranging stationing sites for the Caspian Flotilla (CF) within his working visit to the Southern Military District. “By the end of this year, it is planned to complete the construction of the CF stationing sites for ships and vessels in the Port of Makhachkala,”…
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October 3, 2018 (Google Translation) – Combining the ships guarding the water area of the Caspian Flotilla together with aviation carried out anti-submarine and anti-mine search operations. During the exercise, the ship group consisting of small anti-submarine ships and minesweepers with the support of the Su-24M bomber link, the Be-12 aircraft and Ka-27 helicopters carried out a control search of…
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The small artillery ship Makhachkala is preparing to sail off for her mission. During the cruise, the ship will call at ports of Iran with a friendly visit. The ship crew will ensure security for maritime economic activity of the Russian Federation in the Caspian Sea. During the 30-day cruise, the Russian seamen will pay a friendly visit to the…
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Caspian Flotilla troops located in Astrakhan and Kaspiysk are holding ship damage control exercises. All exercises are held in real conditions in special training complexes. Crews of the missile ships Dagestan and Tatarstan, small missile and artillery ships Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich, Veliky Ustug, Volgodonsk, Makhachkala, and Astrakhan are involved in the training.
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The Caspian Flotilla’s ships practiced a set of ship exercises. The task of combat training in the northern part of the Caspian Sea was carried out by the ship group consisting of two roadstead minesweepers and a small artillery ship (SAS) Makhachkala. During the first stage of the exercises, seamen carried out mine-laying, conducted control-and-reconnaissance searches and eliminated the minefield…
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First Deputy Defence Minister Ruslan Tsalikov has paid a visit to the Southern military district in accordance to the order of General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. Ruslan Tsalikov headed the working session in order to discuss issues of development and modernization of the Caspian Flotilla infrastructure. Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, Commander of the Southern MD troops Colonel General…
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