The warships
accomplished their passage through the strait’s narrowest 14km section at night
amid intensive shipping.
MURMANSK, August 11.
/TASS/. A group of the Russian Northern Fleet’s warships has entered the
Mediterranean Sea on a long-distance Atlantic voyage, the Fleet’s press office
reported on Saturday.
"The group of
warships comprising the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov and the large
anti-submarine warfare ship Severomorsk, performing long-distance voyage tasks,
completed its passage through the narrowest part of the Strait of Gibraltar and
entered the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday," the press office said.
The Russian Northern
Fleet’s warships accomplished their passage through the strait’s narrowest 14km
section at night amid intensive shipping.
During their voyage,
the warships’ crews continued planned combat training. In the Atlantic, the
crew of the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov practiced air defense to check the
teams’ readiness to employ weapons and technical capabilities while the crew of
the large anti-submarine warfare ship Severomorsk practiced anti-submarine
warfare tasks with the use of a Kamov Ka-27 helicopter.
The Northern Fleet
warships have covered a distance of over 6,000 nautical miles since they left
the Fleet’s main naval base of Severomorsk on July 5.
Source: ITAR-TASS
11-08-2018
