Ocean 2024 CPX: Baltic Fleet's helicopters trained anti-submarine warfare
12.09.2024
Within the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the Ka-27 and Ka-27M shipborne anti-submarine helicopters of the Baltic Marine Naval Aviation underwent drills to search for, track, and destroy mock enemy submarines in the Fleet's maritime training zone.
During the exercise, the anti-submarine helicopters trained searching for, detecting, identifying, maintaining shadowing contact, as well as countering submarines of the mock enemy.
During flight shifts, helicopter honed skills in detecting and identifying submarines as well as tracking them using radar and sonar. After completing tracking tasks, the Ka-27 and Ka-27-M helicopters used anti-submarine weapons against the targets. Up to 10 aircraft were involved in the flights.
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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