Vice Admiral Kulakov visits Norwegian port Tromso

Northern Fleet (NF) large ASW ship Vice Admiral Kulakov called at Norwegian port Tromso on May 16. The visit is associated with Norway's national holiday – Constitution Day – and will close the 2-day joint exercise Pomor-2011. 

The exercise has been conducted since May 11 in the Barents Sea with participation of Vice Admiral Kulakov and Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad. 

NF Band which is on board the Russian ship continuing to practice added solemnity to the event. Rescue of distressed ship with participation of NF aircrafts was conducted in the last day of the exercise.

DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare Game Goes Live

Can you best an enemy submarine commander so he can't escape into the ocean depths? If you think you can, you are invited to put yourself into the virtual driver's seat of one of several Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) configurations and show the world how you can use its capabilities to follow an enemy submarine.

DARPA's ACTUV program is developing a fundamentally new tool for the Navy's ASW toolkit and seeks your help to explore how best to use this tool to track quiet submarines.

Before autonomous software is developed for ACTUV's computers, DARPA needs to determine what approaches and methods are most effective.