Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla ships launch missile strikes and holds live-fire artillery drills at sea
11.09.2024
As part of the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise, the missile ship Dagestan, small artillery ships Astrakhan and Volgodonsk of the Caspian Flotilla as a unit of surface task force destroyed buoyant mine threatening civil shipping. Heavy machine guns were used to fire at the targets. The target was fired from standard large-calibre machine guns.
Also in one of the sea ranges, the ships performed artillery firing with the use of 100-mm guns against a maritime target simulating a warship of a mock enemy.
The surface task force made up of two small missile ships engaged vessels of the mock enemy with sea-launched missiles. The servicemen produced electronic launches of Kalibr anti-ship cruise missiles.
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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