Ocean 2024 CPX: Pacific Fleet's minesweepers practise naval mine warfare in seas of Japan and Okhotsk
11.09.2024
Two surface minesweeping forces of the Pacific Fleet have performed a mission to ensure the security of deploying all-arms surface groups, surface action groups, and naval search and strike forces of the Fleet in the waters of the seas of Japan and Okhotsk during the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise.
According to the scenario, the simulated enemy laid mines on the supposed route of the Russian ships.
The surface minesweeping force made up of the minesweepers Anatoly Shlemov, Pyotr Ilyichev, and Yakov Balyaev, the TB-100 and BT-325 сoastal minesweepers in one direction, and the second group made up of the TB-215, BT-245, and BT-256 minesweepers in the other direction, in cooperation with the naval aviation aircraft of the Pacific Fleet, practised naval mine warfare with the use of contact and non-contact trawls.
The mock mines detected on the water surface were destroyed by targeted artillery fire.
As a result of coordinated action by the crews of the minesweepers, all-arms surface groups safely crossed the mine-affected areas and started their missions in the seas of Japan and Okhotsk.
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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