Russian Navy Fleet deployments Week 11-2024

Northern Fleet
March 11
Udaloy class destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov entered the Barents Sea to carry out several combat exercises [1].

March 12
Training with the deep-sea rescue submersible AS-36 took place in the Kola Bay [3]. 

March 13
Minesweeper Yadrin held gunnery exercises against simulated sea, air and coastal targets [10].

March 14
Ka-27 helicopters were deployed in an anti-submarine exercise [18].

Baltic Fleet
March 12
Frigate Neustrashimmy and Steregushchy class corvettes Boiky, Stoiky and Soobrazitelny held air defense exercises in the Baltic Sea [4].

Zubr class hovercraft Mordovia held an amphibious landing exercise as part of its K-2 training course [5].

Two landing craft held combat training [6].

March 13
Frigate Neustrashimmy and Steregushchy class corvettes Boiky, Stoiky and Soobrazitelny held an anti-submarine warfare exercise [11].

A naval task group made up of the Karakurt class corvette Sovetsk, the Parchim class anti-submarine corvettes Aleksin and Kabardino-Balkaria together with the Tarantul class missile boats Dmitrovgrad and Morshansk were deployed for gunnery exercises against simulated air and sea targets [12].

Zubr class hovercraft Mordovia held an amphibious landing exercise as part of its K-2 training course during which 50 marines were landed [13].

March 14
Ka-27 helicopters held anti-submarine exercises which included the bombing of the simulated submarine [17].

Improved Kilo class submarine Mozhaisk moored in Baltiysk during the afternoon. The submarine most likely played the part of enemy submarine during the past training exercises of the Baltic Fleet [19].

Corvettes Soobrazitelny, Boikiy and Stoykiy, as well as the frigate Neustrashimy, held gunnery exercises and electronic missile launches [20].

March 15
Fleet oiler Kola departed the Baltic Sea during the morning hours [18].

Kilo class submarines Dmitirov and Mozhaisk departed Baltiysk for their second part of the L-2 training course [23].

Karakurt class corvette Naro-Fominsk held a gunnery exercise against a simulated sea target [24].

March 16
Parchim class corvette Aleksin and minesweeper Vasily Polyakov held gunnery exercises at the Baltic Fleet training ranges against simulated floating mines and USVs [25].

Pacific Fleet
March 11
Tarantul class missile boat R-18 entered the Sea of Japan as part of her K-2 training course. The exercise involved gunnery and air defense exercises as well as the electronic launch of its missiles and electronic warfare [2].

March 13
Slava class cruiser Varyag and Udaloy class frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov take part in the Iranian led naval exercise Maritime Security Belt 2024 in the Gulf of Oman. The vessels held gunnery exercises and pirate rescue operations [7].

Ka-27 and Ka-29 helicopters were involved in an exercise to counter unmanned surface drones [8].

Corvette Gremyashchiy held gunnery exercises in the Peter the Great Bay as part of its K-2 training course [9].

March 14
Slava class cruiser Varyag and Udaloy class frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov completed the naval exercise Maritime Security Belt 2024 in the Gulf of Oman and returned to the Iranian port of Chekhbehar [14].

Minesweepers “Yakov Balyaev” and “Pyotr Ilyichev” conducted a joint mine action exercise in the Avacha Gulf of Kamchatka during which mines were laid and swept. An air defense exercise was also held during the training [15].

March 15
Command and control vessel Marshal Krylov held a combat exercise in defending against unmanned surface drones in the Peter the Great Gulf [21].

Corvette Gremyashchiy held a electronic warfare exercise in conjunction with a Tu-142MZ maritime patrol aircraft [22].

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