Ocean 2024 CPX: eight Pacific Fleet's anti-submarine aircraft practise anti-submarine search
13.09.2024
Two pairs of Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft and two pairs of IL-38 and IL-38N aircraft of the Pacific Fleet Naval Aviation carried out practical tasks in group anti-submarine search in the area of responsibility of the Pacific Fleet during the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills.
During this episode of the exercise, one of the Pacific Fleet's diesel submarine was assigned as a mock enemy.
During the flight tasks, anti-submarine aircraft crews flew over the Sea of Japan to hone their skills in performing anti-submarine search as well as in identifying submarines and tracking them with the use of radars and sonars.
The IL-38 and IL-38N aircraft carried out piloting at low and extremely low altitudes over the water and in the coastal zone.
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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