Ocean 2024 CPX: Northern Fleet's ships strike mock enemy in Barents Sea

16.09.2024

During the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills, the Northern Fleet's warships launched a strike against a mock enemy in the Barents Sea.

A surface action group of the Northern Fleet comprising the missile cruiser Marshal Shaposhnikov and the frigate Admiral Golovko used onboard artillery weaponry to engage a surface ship of the mock enemy.

Missile artillery crews of the ships performed artillery live fires to hit a target position. The batteries of the AK-130 automatic naval gun and the A-192M shipborne artillery system were involved in the live fires.

The frigate Admiral Golovko also trained in engaging a mock air enemy with the use of Palash anti-aircraft missile artillery system against the aerial target of the SAB-250 flare bomb, which was delivered by a Su-30SM fighter jet.

Sailors of the Northern Fleet also honed their skills in destroying coastal targets located on the coast of the Sredny Peninsula. Missile artillery crews of the combat units of the ships fired at visible and defiladed coastal targets imitating firing points, command posts, and strongholds of the mock enemy.

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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