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Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla ships destroy surface targets and repel mock air attack

13.09.2024

The Caspian Flotilla ships destroyed the enemy's surface targets with tube and rocket artillery and repelled an air attack during the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills.

Upon detecting an air enemy, the sailors placed pneumatic radar reflectors to mask the Flotilla's forces. They destroyed the enemy's aircraft with the AK-306 artillery systems.

The artillery, in turn, engaged the targets more than 10 kilometres away.

A unique feature of the 2024 naval drills is that the Caspian Flotilla seamen deliver combined massive strikes against the enemy.

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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