Ocean 2024 CPX: units of Northern Fleet perform search for mock enemy submarines and deploy anti-submarine weaponry
11.09.2024
During the Ocean 2024 CPX, combined forces of the Northern Fleet commenced the search for the submarines of the mock enemy in the Barents Sea and countered their actions.
This stage of the drills is organised in a bilateral format. Two naval search and strike forces, as a part of which the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Levchenko and small anti-submarine ships Brest and Snezhnogorsk perform anti-submarine tasks, are involved in the drills. Multi-purpose nuclear submarines and anti-submarine aviation of the Northern Fleet's mixed aviation corps, namely, Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft, Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft, and Ka-27PL ship-borne anti-submarine helicopters, also took part in the anti-submarine stage of the drills.
Anti-submarine units of the Northern Fleet commenced to check that the Fleet's forces are not spied on, searched for the mock enemy submarines, and monitored sea traffic in the designated area of the Barents Sea waters in cohesion with anti-submarine aviation and a nuclear submarine.
On the outer reaches, Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft and Il-38 long-range anti-submarine aircraft performed tasks. In the near zone, Ka-27 ship-borne anti-submarine helicopters searched for the mock enemy's submarines.
During this stage of the drills, the crew of the nuclear submarine practised underwater manoeuvring, deployed hydroacoustic weaponry in active search mode, trained to organise the crew in combat as well as studied a set of actions when locating an underwater target and being attacked by it .
Crews of large and small anti-submarine ships practised surface manoeuvring as well as deployment of hydroacoustic and anti-submarine weaponry.
At the final part of the anti-submarine starge of the exercise, the ships' crews practised the combined use of anti-submarine weaponry with a number of practical combat training exercises, including torpedo and torpedo-rocket live fires, and antisubmarine bomb drops.
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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