Ocean 2024 CPX: Northern Fleet's pilots drop bombs on ground targets
12.09.2024
As part of the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the Northern Fleet's pilots of the mixed aviation corps hit ground targets of the mock enemy.
Russia's Su-24 bombers dropped bombs on ground targets, which simulated a camouflaged enemy command post.
During the flight missions, Su-24 front-line bombers used the targeting data to carry out bomb strikes on the target field at the Lumbovsky aviation training ground on Kola Peninsula.
Strikes were delivered using simple and complex manoeuvres at low and medium altitudes.
All the ground targets were successfully hit, which was recorded by objective control systems.
The peculiarity of the bombing operation was that the flight of the Su-24 front-line bombers was escorted by an Su-33 deck-based fighter jet of the Northern Fleet Naval Fighter Regiment, which provided air cover for the bombers.
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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