Russian Navy - News and Analysis

Baltic Fleet Monday June 16 A combat exercise was held involving the Buyan-M class corvettes aro-Fominsk, Zeleny Dol and Serpukhov. All three vessels held electronic/simulated launches against coastal targets of a simulated enemy. At the same time, Bastion anti-ship missile systems were deployed and simulated launches against seaborn targets before relocation to new firing positions link . Parachim class anti-submarine corvettes Aleksin and Kabardino-Balkaria held tactical exercises at the Baltic Fleet training grounds. The exercises involved detecting and destroying a simulated enemy submarine followed by naval gunfire against a enemy surface warship which was simulated by a floating sea shield link . Ropucha class landing vessel Alexander Shabalin was deployed in a tactical exercise with the vessel firing against simulated floating mines, UAVs, and USVs link . 5 Su-24 tactical bombers of the naval aviation regiment practices striking simulated surface warships in the Baltic ...