Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla ships destroy mock UAVs and uncrewed surface vehicles
12.09.2024
During the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, warships of the Caspian Flotilla destroyed mock enemy unmanned aerial vehicles and trained to eliminate uncrewed surface vehicles posing an attack threat.
During the exercise, the crews employed passive jamming systems, 30-mm Palash anti-aircraft missile artillery systems and artillery systems, and AK-306 automatic artillery systems.
When repelling an attack of uncrewed surface vehicles, they engaged manoeuvring targets with large-calibre machine guns and small arms.
More than 30 warships and support vessels - the missile ship Dagestan, the small artillery ships Astrakhan and Volgodonsk, the small missile ships Veliky Ustyug, Grad Sviyazhsk, and Uglich, the coastal minesweepers Magomet Gadzhiyev and German Ugryumov, other anti-sabotage boats and inshore minesweeper - are involved in this stage of the strategic command post exercise in the waters of the Caspian Sea.
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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