Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla's ships and anti-sabotage boats destroy uncrewed boats and launch grenades
13.09.2024
During the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the guard ship Dagestan in cooperation with the anti-sabotage boats Yunarmeyets Dagestana and Yunarmeyets Tatarstana launched grenades to destroy the enemy uncrewed surface vehicles and met the time standards of the exercises.
In the actual combat situation, uncrewed surface vehicles pose a significant threat to naval forces, as they are more manoeuvrable and can carry ammunition weighing several hundred kilograms. The task and one of the main objectives of the Caspian Flotilla's ships is to increase the efficiency and improve the skills of combating uncrewed surface vehicles.
Seamen of the Caspian Flotilla successfully hit targets with 14.5-mm KPVT machine guns and other small arms. Moreover, the anti-sabotage boats trained in using PD-65A anti-sabotage grenade launchers and PD-64 grenade launchers, and RGD5 hand grenades to eliminate mock enemy commando divers.
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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