According to Russia’s
National Defense Control Center, participants of the exercises are practicing
radio-suppression of location and navigation systems.
MOSCOW, June 15.
/TASS/. Russia’s Baltic Fleet is monitoring the joint exercises of NATO
Baltops-2019, Russia’s National Defense Control Center (NDCC) informed
reporters on Saturday.
"In order to
identify the threats to navigational safety of civilian vessels, related to the
use of radio-electronic warfare means by NATO ships, the corresponding units of
the Baltic Fleet are monitoring the radio-electronic situation in the area of
the drills," the message by the NDCC informed.
According to the
center, participants of the NATO drills in the southern part of the Baltic Sea
are practicing radio-suppression of location and navigation systems.
Vessels and aircrafts
from 16 NATO member countries (Belgium, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Spain,
Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the USA,
Turkey, France and Estonia) are participating in the drills, along with two
NATO partner states (Finland and Sweden).
Source: ITAR-TASS
16-06-2019
