Ocean 2024 CPX: Baltic Fleet's naval helicopters hone skills in searching and destroying mock enemy uncrewed surface vehicles
11.09.2024
As part of the Ocean 2024 CPX, naval helicopters practised a set of tasks to search and detect uncrewed surface vehicles in the Baltic Sea.
The Baltic Fleet's Ka-27 helicopters made group training flights over the Baltic Sea and performed tasks to fight against uncrewed surface vehicles.
During the flight shift, the helicopter pilots made more than 10 joint sorties to the designated areas of the maritime training ground. The Ka-27PS and Ka-27P teams gradually performed the tasks to search for small-sized mobile targets, and, upon the detection of the mock enemy uncrewed surface vehicles, they hit the targets with large-calibre machine guns.
Up to ten crews of Ka-27P and Ka-27PS helicopters were involved in the flights.
According the training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formations and units of the Russian Navy started taking part in the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise, which will 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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