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Ocean 2024 CPX: MiG-31BM interceptors cover surface action group

13.09.2024

During the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, a pair of MiG-31BM high-altitude interceptors were tasked with covering the Northern Fleet surface action group over the international waters of the Barents Sea. While performing the mission, the high-altitude aircraft intercepted a mock air enemy.

An Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft acted as the enemy and attempted to approach the surface group to bomb the warships.

Having received coordinates from the radio engineering units, the MiG-31BM interceptors were scrambled from one of the airfields, and entered the assigned area to identify the target. After that, they launched long-range air-to-air missiles to hit the target.

After completing the tasks, the fighter jets practise air-to-air operations to fight against mock enemy fighter jets which were covering enemy bombers.

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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