Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla's coastal troops protect bases and positions of Bal coastal missile system
12.09.2024
The Coastal Troops of the Caspian Flotilla involved in the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills have deployed Bal coastal missile systems equipped with Kh-35 anti-ship missiles. They are on combat alert duty to protect a naval surface group from the shore.
Moreover, Caspian Flotilla sailors protect infrastructure of the bases along the shore, where enemy landings are most likely. To successfully repel possible attacks launched by sabotage and reconnaissance groups of a mock enemy, attacks of the enemy UAVs and uncrewed surface vehicles, the Caspian Flotilla employs 25-mm 2M-3 automatic anti-aircraft systems, mobile groups on protected special vehicles, and high-speed pick-up trucks equipped with large-calibre machine guns. Electronic anti-drone guns are also used.
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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