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As part of the ongoing Russian exercises "July Storm", the Baltic Fleet demonstrated for the first time a new Russian sea drone. In the video you can see how the unmanned boat hits a target. The model of the sea drone is unknown. It is reported that the sea drone will be adopted by the fleet.

 

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As part of the recent Russian naval exercises "July Storm", we publish unique footage of the use of the Tor-M2KM air defense system on a Russian corvette. In the video, the Tor-M2KM air defense system is located on the deck of the Viktor Velikiy patrol ship of Project 22160. The ships of this project were initially built without air defense systems, but the installation of the Tor-M2KM air defense system improved the protection of these ships. The video shows how the Tor-M2KM air defense system shoots down an Kh-35 anti-ship missile. Construction of Project 22160 ships has been discontinued.

 

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The Russian Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies "Rubicon" has begun to form units with sea drones. We recently showed the declassified tests of sea drones during the "July Storm" exercises. Since there is practically nowhere to use sea drones now, it can be assumed that unmanned boats are being created to destroy maritime infrastructure, ports and ships located in them. According to Ukrainian experts, the Rubicon center can already organize group work of up to 400 sea drones. It is not yet clear what sea drones will be used, one of them looks like a modified sea drone "Orkan", it was shown earlier

 

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The lead patrol icebreaker Ivan Papanin of Project 23550 was delivered to the Northern Fleet of Russia. The flag-raising ceremony on the ship took place at the Northern Fleet base in Severomorsk. The ships of Project 23550 were developed by JSC Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and have no analogues in terms of the combination of technical characteristics. Three more ships of this type are currently under construction. The patrol icebreaker is capable of breaking through ice 1.7 meters thick. The ship can be used as a tugboat, icebreaker and combat ship, it can escort and tow detained ships and perform other tasks. The ship is armed, depending on the modification, with Igla or Verba MANPADS, a 76.2-mm AK-176MA artillery mount. Up to four 12.7-mm Kord machine guns and two 30-mm AK-630M artillery mounts can be installed. The ship can be equipped with Kalibr-K, Kalibr-NK, Onyx or Zircon missiles. It is possible to base a Ka-27 or Ka-226 helicopter, a UAV and two boats. The full displacement of the military icebreaker is 8.5 thousand tons, the speed is up to 18 knots (33.3 km/h), the endurance is 70 days, the cruising range is up to 12,000 miles. The crew is from 60 to 110 people.