Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 33/2021

Daily Events August 16 An Improved Kilo class submarine operated in the Gulf of Finland during the morning hours. The submarine was most likely the RFS Magadan for the Pacific Fleet which currently…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 32/2021

Weekly Brief A large task force of at least eight warships was present at an amphibious landing exercise at Kaliningrad on August 11. This task force, from a naval point of view, trained in interoper…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 31/2021

Weekly Brief At least three submarines were at sea this week, all of them Improved Kilo class submarines. Submarine operations were limited to training the crew of the RFs Krasnodar and completing fa…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 30/2021

Weekly Sitrep Naval activity during this week was almost entirely dominated by Northern Fleet warships leaving the Baltic Sea following their participation in the Navy Day Parade. Training exercises …

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 29/2021

Weekly Brief Naval exercises were limited to the simulated launch of Kalibr cruise missiles by the Karakurt class corvette RFS Mytischchi as it was heading out to sea. The exercise is a break from no…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 28/2021

Weekly Brief Naval activity remained limited to the Gulf of Gdansk at the beginning of the week and the preparations for the Navy Day parade at Saint Petersburg. Training at Kaliningrad continued wit…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 27/2021

Weekly Brief Aside from the influx of several Northern Fleet warships, naval activity remained largely absent in the Baltic Sea as the Baltic Fleet is preparing for the Navy Day parade on July 25. Th…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 26/2021

Weekly Brief With the majority of the Baltic Fleet stationed near Saint Petersburg and preparing for the Navy Day parade on July 25, no naval activity was reported throughout the week. Land forces st…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 25/2021

Daily Events June 21 Tank crews stationed in Kaliningrad held a night time combat training exercise which saw the use of the tank carousel. Around 100 tankers, manning 30 T-72B3M tanks, took part i…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 24/2021

Daily Events June 14 Several Russian warships were observed on satellite imagery outside the port of Baltiysk. These vessels were reported as a Steregushchy and Gremyashchy class corvette, two Kara…

Ropucha LST deployment - Spring 2021

Summary In the second half of March, an unusual deployment of Ropucha class landing ship-tank (LST) was observed in the North Sea and Mediterranean. Two separate groups, one of the Northern and Balti…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 07/2021

February 15 Around 10 Su-27 fighter aircraft are involved in tactical exercises over the Kaliningrad Region. The exercise includes various stages which include evading an incoming airstrike and reloc…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 06/2021

February 09 The Zubr class amphibious landing vessel RFS Yevgeny Kocheshkov has entered the Yantar shipyard at Kaliningrad for a repair and maintenance period. These repairs are expected to last two …

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 05/2021

February 02 The Air assault battalion of the 336th Naval Infantry Regiment was involved in a combat readiness exercise at Kaliningrad. Over 300 marines were put on alert and marched out to their asse…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 04/2021

January 25 Large scale combat readiness exercises have started in the Kaliningrad region which involve over 3.000 servicemen and 300 pieces of military equipment. The exercises are part of a multi-st…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 03/2021

January 19 Neustrashimyy class frigate RFs Yaroslav Mudry held an air defense exercise at the training ranges in the Baltic Fleet. Su-24 bomber aircraft and Ka-27 simulated enemy aircraft attacking t…

Baltic Fleet Deployments Wk53/2020

December 29 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the autumn draft of new conscripts has come to an end. Around 7.000 conscripts have joined the armed forces station in Kaliningrad. The Balt…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 51/2020

December 15 Altay class fleet oiler RFS Kola reportedly left the Kaliningrad Anchorage around 18:20Z [ 1 ]. The vessel arrived at the anchorage last week on Saturday December 12 [ 2 ]. Command traini…

Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 50/2020

December 07 TASS agency reports that a new motorized infantry division will be created and deployed at the Kaliningrad Region as part of the 11th Army Corps. The decision is made in response to the d…