Ocean 2024 CPX: Northern Fleet ships arrive in Chukotka
13.09.2024
As part of the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the Arctic expeditionary group of forces (troops) of the Northern Fleet operating in the eastern regions of the Arctic Ocean has arrived in the area close to Mys Shmidta in the Chukchi Sea.
The group includes the large anti-submarine ship Vice Admiral Kulakov, from which the forces are controlled, the large landing ship Aleksandr Otrakovsky, the rescue tugboat Altay, and the tanker Sergei Osipov.
The large anti-submarine ship Vice Admiral Kulakov and large landing ship Aleksandr Otrakovsky anchored and prepared for the landing operation on the unequipped coast.
The landing ship is manned by Marines, who have already practised a number of various combat training missions in the Arctic.
As part of the Ocean 2024 manoeuvres, the Northern Fleet will practise tactics in the Arctic zone near Chukotka, both on the continental coast and in the seas of the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
To participate in the Ocean 2024 manoeuvres, the ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet made a transition along the Northern Sea Route from the home port on the Kola Peninsula to the training area.
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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