In summer the fleet’s
personnel will take part in more than 20 naval exercises.
KALININGRAD, June 1.
/TASS/. Russia’s Baltic Fleet warships will make voyages to the Atlantic, the
Arctic, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the summer
training period, the fleet’s press office reported on Friday.
"The fleet’s
warships and vessels are set for long-distance voyages in the Atlantic, the
Arctic, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Overall, the
fleet’s 10 surface ships and nine vessels will be involved in accomplishing
inherent missions in remote areas of the World Ocean until the end of the 2018
training year," Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Alexander Nosatov was quoted
by the fleet’s press office as saying. The vice-admiral spoke before the
personnel of units and formations in the fleet’s main naval base of Baltiysk at
a meeting devoted to the start of the summer training period.
Currently, three
surface ships and three support vessels of the Baltic Fleet are accomplishing
assigned missions in distant waters, Nosatov said.
"The fleet’s
combat ships and vessels will continue accomplishing missions in various areas
of the World Ocean both on their own and as part of the Russian Navy’s
permanent Mediterranean taskforce… We also face an important state task to
protect Russia’s frontiers in the Kaliningrad direction," the vice-admiral
said.
During the summer
training period, the Fleet’s personnel will take part in more than 20 naval
exercises to drill practical actions of the Baltic Fleet’s shipborne forces,
coastal defense troops and naval aviation. The Fleet’s combat training will be
followed by its taskforce’s control tactical exercise to land marines onto a
rough coast. In July 2018, Su-30SM fighter jets of the fleet’s airbase will
take part in tactical drills at the Ashuluk training range to fire missiles
against practice air targets.
Source: ITAR-TASS
02-06-2018
