19 Facts About Russian Navy

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Russian Navy possesses the vast majority of the former Soviet naval forces, and currently comprises the Northern Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet, the Baltic Fleet, the Caspian Flotilla, 5th Operational Squadron in Middle East, Naval Aviation, and the Coastal Troops .

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Russian Navy suffered severely with the collapse of the Soviet Union due to insufficient maintenance, lack of funding and subsequent effects on the training of personnel and timely replacement of equipment.

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3.

On 10 January 2013, the Russian Navy finally accepted its first new Borei-class SSBN for service.

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4.

On 23 June 2021, Russian forces were involved in an incident with a British Royal Navy ship in the waters of Crimea.

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5.

In 2022 the Russian Navy took part in the invasion of Ukraine, starting with the attack on Snake Island at the beginning of the war.

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6.

Russian Navy naval manpower is a mixture of conscripts serving one-year terms and volunteers .

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7.

Russian Navy is organised into four combat services - the Surface Forces, the Submarine Forces, the Naval Aviation and the Coastal Troops.

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8.

The Russian Navy retains a rigid structure, whose levels of command could, according to military regulations, be directly equalled to the corresponding ground and air forces counterparts:.

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9.

Under the leadership of Admiral Gorshkov during the Cold War, the Soviet Russian Navy expanded the reach of the Naval Infantry and deployed it worldwide on numerous occasions, but since the dissolution of the Soviet Union its role has been greatly reduced.

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10.

Soviet Naval Infantry and their Russian Navy successors have a reputation as elite shock troops.

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11.

The Russian Navy Naval Infantry is a mechanised force, organised in brigades, independent regiments and independent battalions.

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12.

Coastal defence troops of the Russian Navy are conventional mechanised brigades with the main task to prevent enemy amphibious landings.

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13.

The rank in Russian Navy is given first, followed by the English transliteration.

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14.

Russian Navy uses Podsolnukh over-the-horizon surface wave radar for detection of ships.

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15.

Russian Navy maintains a base under the command of the Southern Military District in Syria at Tartus.

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16.

The Russian Navy had been planning to procure a new class of destroyer, the general-purpose Project 21956.

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17.

The Russian Navy has revealed that the Russia's Black Sea Fleet will receive 30 new ships by 2020 and will become self-sufficient with its own infrastructure in the Crimean peninsula.

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18.

In January–February 2022 large-scale exercise of all Russian Navy fleets took place with some 140 warships and support ships.

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19.

South of Gibraltar, in September–October 2021 Russian Navy deployed destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov that visited Praia, Capo Verde and performed anti-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Guinea.

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