Ocean 2024 CPX: Pacific Fleet's Ka-29 combat helicopters launch strikes against mock amphibious units and ships in Kamchatka region
13.09.2024
A pair of Ka-29 naval transport and combat helicopters of the Pacific Fleet aviation engaged amphibious units and ships of a mock enemy.
At a sea range, two Ka-29 helicopters struck the target position simulating small ships of a mock enemy with unguided air-to-surface missiles and aircraft guns.
Moreover, the helicopters engaged targets on the shore. Unguided air-launched missiles and aircraft guns were used to hit the targets designating fortified firing positions, military hardware, and personnel of the enemy landing party. The pilots also improved flight skills in a pair.
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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