(Europa) Die russische Marine

[Erich]

inzwischen auch im MF
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23 December

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RUSSIA
Second BOREJ class submarine ALEXANDER NEVSKIY handed over (signing of acceptance documents) to the Russian navy and immediately afterwards also formally commissioned (raising the St. Andrew’s flag) into service … DefMin Shoigu attended ceremony at Sevmash shipyard (Severodvinsk).
Local media: “Before the end of this month, due to begin a cruise to the base of its permanent deployment to Vilyuchinsk on the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula” (rmks: wait and see).

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