Ocean 2024 CPX: commando divers undergo training in combating underwater sabotage forces and means at Baltic Fleet's home port
13.09.2024
In the framework of the Ocean 2024 CPX, commando divers prevented a breakthrough of a mock enemy underwater saboteurs to the Baltic Fleet ships conducting loading of arms at the home port. The servicemen trained to throw counter-sabotage grenades, fight under water with the use of SPP-1 underwater pistols, APS underwater rifles, and bladed arms during the training combat.
The servicemen also practised to counter a ship violating the navigation regime in the Kaliningrad Sea Canal. The alerted combat units of the commando diving team for combating underwater sabotage forces and means on high-speed boats detected a suspicious watercraft and moved on special signal to intercept a mock intruder, while releasing divers. The mock intruder resisted. It caused an assault and armed seizure of the boat.
The exercise comprised some 50 servicemen, rapid boats, special-purpose and robotic equipment controlling underwater situation.
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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