Russia Holds Navy Day Parade In St. Petersburg

July 31, 2022, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation: These images show the main celebrations in St. Petersburg as Russia held its Navy Day parades on Sunday (31July2022)..President Vladimir Putin attended the event in St. Petersburg, which also took place at the nearby naval base at Kronstadt..After inspecting Russia's Baltic fleet, Putin made a short speech in which he announced his country's navy would leer más receive hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles in months. The missiles can apparently travel at nine times the speed of sound..He also signed a new 55-page naval doctrine, outlining its ambitions to assert itself as a "great maritime power" across the world..More than 40 ships, cutters, and submarines, as well as 42 aircraft and more than 3,500 troops took part in the parade..The vessels that took part in the parade on the Neva river in St. Petersburg included the counterterror boats P-468, Vladimir Nosov and Nakhimovets, the landing boats Ivan Pasko and D-67, Raptor-class patrol boats, the base minesweeper Pavel Khenov and the ocean minesweeper Aleksandr Obukhov, the missile boat Chuvashiya, the guided missile corvettes Zelyony Dol and Odintsovo, and the patrol boats of Mangust, M14 and Marlin 900 classes..Taking part in the parade in Kronstadt were the missile cruiser Dimitrovgrad, the guided missile corvettes Passat and Sovetsk, the small anti-submarine ships Urengoy and Kazanets, the corvettes Stoiky and Soobrazitelny, the patrol boat Yaroslav Mudry, the coast guard vessel Ladoga, the training ship Perekop and the diesel-electric submarine Magadan..The naval aircraft group taking part in the parade in St Petersburg included Mi-8, Ka-31 and Ka-27 helicopters, An-72, Be-200, Il-38, Tu-154, Tu-134, Tu-142MK and Su-24 planes, and Su-27, MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighter jets..The 54-gun sailing battleship Poltava, recreated from 18th century drawings and models at the historic St Petersburg shipyard, led the par
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