Baltic Fleet Deployments - Wk 29/2020
July 13 Russian media sources reported that the Udaloy class destroyer RFS Vice Admiral Kulakov and the Oscar-II class submarine RFS Orel held a series of exercises during the night of July 12 to 13. The exercises involved air-defense and anti-submarine warfare. the exercise reportedly took place in the Gulf of Finland. [ 1 ] July 14 Frank Bottema reported the deployment of various Russian warships in the Baltic Sea and manage to capture several of them on satellite imagery. The first set of pictures showed the Type 636 improved Kilo class submarine RFS Volkhov in conjunction with a Steregushy class corvette, a Parchim class corvette and a Sibiryakov class hydrographic survey vessel. All ships were located east of the Swedish island of Gotland. The Swedish patrol vessel HSwMS Trosso and the Latvian patrol vessel P-09 were also in the vicinity. The second set of pictures showed the amphibious landing ship RFS Pyotr Morgunov at sea near Baltiysk, together with several o...