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The Russian Northern Fleet (Russian: Северный флот, Severny Flot) is an operational-strategic part of the Russian Navy. It is the youngest of the Russian fleet, established in 1933.
The fleet's headquarters are in the closed town Severomorsk, where the main base and administrative centre for several bases located throughout the Kola Gulf are located.
The Northern Fleet is the most powerful of Russia’s four fleets. About two thirds of all the Russian Navy's nuclear force is based there. The fleet consists of nuclear-powered missile and torpedo submarines, missile warships, aircraft carriers and anti-submarine ships. Russia’s only operating aircraft carrier, “Admiral Kuznetsov”, belongs to the Northern Fleet. The flagship of the Northern Fleet is the nuclear-powered large guided missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky.
In 2008, the Russian Navy resumed its presence on the world’s oceans after several years of low activity. Northern Fleet vessels operated in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Sea.
Russian Navy gets new equipment for deep diving
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By the end of 2010, Russian submariners will be equipped with new vital emergency equipment.
A Navy spokesman told journalists that the equipment is part of a major upgrade of the Navy’s search and rescue facilities, RIA Novosti reports. A complete upgrade of the equipment was ordered acquired after the Kursk catastrophe on 12 August year 2000, the Navy spokesman said.
The new equipment enables sailors to surface from submarines diving on depths up to 60 meters. It also enables Navy divers to submerge to new depths, RIA Novosti reports.
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