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Baltic Fleet ships undergo artillery live fires in Baltic Sea waters

14.09.2024

During the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the Baltic Fleet's ships successfully trained in repelling air attacks and in launching an artillery strike on maritime and coastal targets.

During the naval drills, the Baltic Fleet ships carried out a series of measures to repel air attacks of the mock enemy. According to the scenario, the Fleet's reconnaissance means recorded a mass takeoff of the mock enemy aviation, which was attempting to destroy the Baltic Fleet's ships in an area of the Baltic Sea. The data was immediately transmitted to the ships.

Su-24 front-line bombers and Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopters of the Navy simulated high-speed and low-flying aerial targets.

Electronic warfare equipment was activated on the ships with active and passive jamming. Upon approaching the targets, the ships opened fire from the AK-630 and A-190 shipborne systems simultaneously.

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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