Ocean 2024 CPX: Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft practise in-flight refuelling with IL-78 long-range aerial refuelling tanker over international waters of Barents Sea
14.09.2024
The Northern Fleet's Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft practised in-flight refuelling together with the Il-78 long-range aerial refuelling tanker during the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills.
In-flight refuelling was carried out at an altitude of about 5,000 metres at a speed of about 500 km/h.
This task element is one of the most difficult types of flight training. The Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft must approach the Il-78 aerial tanker at a distance of 10-15 metres, make a contact with the refuelling cone and then keep its place in the tight formation with the tanker until fully refuelled.
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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