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Military observer. (Mostly Ru.)

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“Maritime Interaction - 2025”(Joint Sea-2025) naval drills.
The first communications and joint maneuvering exercises have already been conducted.
After completing a maneuvering exercise, the joint detachment of ships practiced the tasks of repelling a conditional air attack.
📹MoD RF

04.08.2025 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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China and Russia kicked off the full maritime phase of the “Maritime Interaction - 2025”(Joint Sea-2025) naval drills on Sunday.

03.08.2025 16:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Frigate «Admiral Grigorovich».
Steregushchiy-class corvette "Soobrazitelny".
Pr. 1331M/Parchim II class corvettes «Urengoy», «Zelenodolsk», «Kazanets».
Pr. 21631 Buyan-M class corvette «Naro-fominsk».
Pr. 1265 Sonya-class minesweeper BT-115 «Pavel Khenov».
Kronshtadt.
/~Aug. 2/

03.08.2025 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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1️⃣Pr. 23550 ice-class patrol ship “Ivan Papanin”.
2️⃣Pr. 956A Sovremenny-class destroyer “Admiral Ushakov”.
3️⃣,4️⃣Pr. 1155 Udaloy-class destroyers “Severomorsk” and “Admiral Levchenko”.
5️⃣Pr. 11711 LST “Ivan Gren”.
6️⃣Pr. 22350 Gorshkov-class frigate “Admiral Golovko”.
Severomorsk.
📷A. Guryev

02.08.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Borey-A class SSBN K-555 “Knyaz Pozharskiy” arrived from Severodvinsk to its permanent deployment point - 31st Submarine Division (Gadzhievo, Murmansk Region).
Photo by MoD RF (Aug. 2)

02.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Borey-A class SSBN K-555 “Knyaz Pozharskiy” arrived from Severodvinsk to its permanent deployment point - 31st Submarine Division (Gadzhievo, Murmansk Region).
Photo by MoD RF (Aug. 2)

02.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Project 1155 Udaloy-class destroyer "Vice-Admiral Kulakov".
Baltiysk.
📹IG- "afi.shmeleva" (Aug. 1)

02.08.2025 17:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Project 1232.2 ZUBR-class LCAC Yevgeny Kocheshkov.
The Project 1155 Udaloy-class destroyer "Vice Admiral Kulakov".
Baltiysk.
📹A. Makhonko (July 31)

02.08.2025 09:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Project 667BDRM Delta IV-Class SSBN К-407 “Novomoskovsk”.
Borey-A class SSBN K-555 “Knyaz Pozharskiy”.
31st Submarine Division (Gadzhievo, Murmansk Region).
/~ Aug. 1/

02.08.2025 05:13 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The Borey-A class SSBN K-555 “Knyaz Pozharskiy” arrived from Severodvinsk to its permanent deployment point - 31st Submarine Division (Gadzhievo, Murmansk Region).
tass.ru/armiya-i-opk...

02.08.2025 05:09 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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The Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the Ropucha-class landing ship Oslyabya, the Steregushchiy-class corvette Sovershenny, the improved Kilo-class SSK B-602 "Magadan" left Vladivostok for the propaganda-patriotic campaign “Strength in Truth - 2025”(by Russian cities).

01.08.2025 07:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

⬆️Project 971 Shchuka-B/Akula class SSN K-335 "Gepard".

01.08.2025 06:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ships and submarines leave Vladivostok to take part in the Russian-Chinese exercise “Maritime Cooperation - 2025”.
📹TRK Zvezda (Aug. 1)
tvzvezda.ru/news/2025815...

01.08.2025 06:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Russian Northern Fleet Yasen(M)-class SSGN.
📸 Dracheva(July 2025)

31.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Project 877LPMB Paltus/Kilo I class SSK B-800 Kaluga.
Project 877 Paltus/Kilo I class SSK B-177 Lipetsk.
🗺️ 161st Submarine Brigade, Polyarny.
www.mk-lipetsk.ru/social/2025/...

31.07.2025 15:55 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A Chinese diesel-electric submarine(Project 636M) and Type 052D destroyer Urumqi arrived in Vladivostok today.
📹 - TRK Zvezda

31.07.2025 10:24 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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The Russian detachment of ships will be headed by the destroyer “Admiral Tributs”(Project 1155), and the Chinese destroyer “Shaoxing”(Type 052DL).
Diesel-electric submarines and naval aviation of the two countries will also take part in the exercise.

31.07.2025 10:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The joint Russian-Chinese naval exercise “Maritime Interaction - 2025” will be held in the waters of the Sea of Japan from August 1 to 5, 2025. The exercise will consist of a coastal and a maritime part.
tass.com/defense/1995...

31.07.2025 10:24 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Project 11540 Yastreb/Neustrashimy-class frigate "Yaroslav Mudryy".
Project 22160 Vasiliy Bykov-class patrol ship Viktor Velikiy.
🗺️Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region.
📸V. Karpovskaya(July 2025)

29.07.2025 18:57 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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July 28, the Baltic Fleet's training ship "Smolny" (Project 887) arrived with a business call to the Republic of the Congo.
📷 TG-ch. "La Russie au Congo 🇨🇬"

29.07.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Talwar-class frigate INS "Tamal" and the Steregushchiy-class corvette "Soobrazitelny" left St. Petersburg.
Photo by A. Akentyev(July 28)

29.07.2025 09:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NATO ships observed the exercise( "Iyulskiy Shtorm") of the Russian Baltic Fleet.
📹TV report VGTRK from the Karakurt-class corvette «Burya».

28.07.2025 12:16 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Exercise "Iyulskiy Shtorm"(July Storm).

Pr. 22350 Gorshkov-class frigate «Admiral Golovko».
Launch of 3M-54 cruise missile by the Kalibr-NK missile system for the sea target in the Barents Sea.
tass.ru/armiya-i-opk...

27.07.2025 20:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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«Iyulskiy shtorm»(July Storm) exercise.
Launch of the 3M55 Oniks missile by the K-300P Bastion-P coastal missile system.
Rybachy Peninsula 🚀➡️Barents Sea.

27.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Project 08851 Yasen-M class SSGN K-573 «Novosibirsk».
The video is probably from the sea trials.
📹 "Russian U-boats&ships" (2021)

27.07.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🔺OOA activity - Breaking

Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Pr.11540 class frigate, either SKR-772 “Neustrashimy” or SKR-777 “Yaroslav Mudryy”, VISID departed the Baltic Sea, 27 July 2025.

⚠️Unit departing for unidentified, probable regional engagement tasking.

27.07.2025 12:47 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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🚀3K95 "Kinzhal" short-range SAM system.
Project 1155M frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov".
Sea of Japan.
📹MoD RF

27.07.2025 11:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The MoD RF indicates that this is a ship of the Baltic Fleet, while all ships of this project were built for the Black Sea Fleet and the ship has not yet joined the Russian Navy and is still undergoing state trials.

27.07.2025 06:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As part of the “Iyulskiy shtorm” (“July Storm”) exercise, the crew of the Vasiliy Bykov-class patrol ship Viktor Velikiy, using the Tor-M2KM SAM system, shot down a Uran target missile launched from the Steregushchiy-class corvette Stoykiy.
Baltic Sea.
tass.ru/armiya-i-opk...

27.07.2025 06:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

”Pantsir-M“.
Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette «Tayfun».
/VGTRK/

26.07.2025 17:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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