Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla ships destroy air and surface targets

16.09.2024

Pacific Fleet's warships destroyed air and surface targets during the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills and returned to their home port.

During the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the ships of the Caspian Flotilla destroyed air and surface targets of the mock enemy in the training areas of the Caspian Sea.

Having detected mock air enemy, the military engaged the targets with the use of the 30-mm Palash anti-aircraft missile artillery systems. They also set decoy targets with the use of jamming systems to prevent the enemy from identifying the right maritime object. Su-24M fighter-bombers acted as enemy aviation.

After eliminating the mock air enemy, the ship's artillery delivered massive strikes at surface targets with 76-mm artillery fire.

After successful fulfilment of the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, all the warships and auxiliary vessels of the Caspian Flotilla returned to their home port.

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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