Ocean 2024 CPX: four anti-submarine aircraft set up mine barriers off Kamchatka coast

16.09.2024

During the Ocean 2024 CPX, a group of anti-submarine aircraft of the mixed aviation regiment of the Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces set up mines at a naval training ground.

Reconnaissance means located the mock enemy's ship detachment heading towards the Kamchatka Peninsula. Four Il-38 and Il-38N aircraft were scrambled from the Yelizovo base airfield and set up mine barriers at the possible routes of approach of the mock enemy's amphibious assault craft in the Avacha Bay.

Four lines of mines were installed at different distances off the coast in areas of possible deployment of amphibious assault craft. More than 50 training mines were dropped on parachutes, thus blocking a 10-km area of the seashore. The aircraft spent more than three hours in the air to patrol the offshore areas and coastline of Kamchatka.

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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