A new structure may appear in the Russian Navy – Arctic Fleet. Currently, the Ministry of Defense is considering the creation of a new association.
According to a naval source, the military department is considering the creation of the Arctic Fleet to ensure the security of the Northern Sea Route. highlights, that it will be a separate association within the Russian Navy, which will remove the tasks of protecting the Northern Sea Route from the Northern and Pacific Fleets, allowing you to focus on performing combat missions as intended.
The issue of creating a new structure is currently being considered. – Russian Arctic Fleet. It will be a separate association within the Navy, whose main task will be to ensure the security of the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic coast in the area of responsibility of the Northern and Pacific Fleets
– quotes TASS source words.
The primary infrastructure for the new fleet is supposed to be allocated from the Northern and Pacific fleets, in the future, the new association will begin to receive its own ships and special equipment.
note, that there is no official information about the creation of the Arctic Fleet, these are just the words of the source, although there is no smoke without fire. Apparently, this issue is still under discussion..
At present, the Russian Navy includes four fleets: Northern, Pacific, Black Sea, Baltic and one flotilla – Caspian. At the same time, the Northern Fleet is an interspecific strategic territorial association, performing the tasks of the military district.
