Ocean 2024 CPX: mine countermeasures vessels train laying mines at sea and conducting mine sweeping missions
10.09.2024
As part of the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise, the group of mine action vessels made up of the coastal and inshore minesweepers German Ugryumov and Magomed Gadzhiyev, as well as RT-234, RT-233, RT-71, operating as part of the surface task force, have carried out combat exercises to lay mines at sea and conduct mine sweeping missions in the designated area in the northern part of the Caspian Sea.
As part of the drills, the minesweepers German Ugryumov and Magomed Gadzhiyev laid mines on the route of a surface minesweeping force to practise mine-detection missions. Seamen also carried out underwater reconnaissance and searched for training mines using electromagnetic, acoustic and contact trawls, and neutralised them.
While at sea, the ship crews of the Caspian Flotilla ships also practised grenade throwing, performed survivability training missions, and countered enemy underwater sabotage forces and assets.
According the training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formations and units of the Russian Navy have started taking part in the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise, which is to last until 16 September 2024. The exercise, which is one of the most important operational and combat training events of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2024, is to be conducted in a bilateral format under the overall command of Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
More than 400 warships, submarines and support vessels, over 120 naval aircraft, some 7,000 units of weaponry, military and special hardware, and more than 90,000 personnel participate in the drills, which take place in the waters of the Pacific and Arctic oceans, Mediterranean, Caspian, and Baltic seas.
The Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise is aimed at checking the readiness of the senior staff of the Russian Navy to operate all-arms groups of forces in the areas of responsibility, to solve non-standard operational tasks, to make full use of high-precision weapons, advanced and modern weapons and military hardware in the practical part of the exercise, and to expand cooperation with the navies of partner countries to perform joint maritime missions.
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