Ocean 2024 CPX: Northern Fleet's Tu-142 aircraft practise anti-submarine search in Arctic sea zone
13.09.2024
As part of the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, two long-range anti-submarine aircraft of the Northern Fleet were scrambled to conduct anti-submarine search in the Arctic sea zone.
A pair of Su-33 aircraft provided air cover to the long-range anti-submarine aircraft as they were deploying in the assigned areas.
During the flight shift, the T-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft practised anti-submarine search together with anti-submarine ships of the Northern Fleet operating in the Barents and East Siberian seas.
The long-range anti-submarine aircraft were tasked with detecting mock enemy warships and then relaying target's position data to the Northern Fleet's surface action groups.
The T-142 North Fleet's long-range anti-submarine flights are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace over neutral waters, without crossing borders of other states.
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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