During their
long-distance deployment, the combat teams of the Yaroslav Mudry practiced
searching for and detecting a notional enemy’s submarines.
KALININGRAD, October
7. /TASS/. A group of the Baltic Fleet’s warships has passed through the
English Channel as part of its deployment to the Indian Ocean, the Fleet’s
press office reported on Monday.
"A group of the
Baltic Fleet’s warships comprising the guard ship Yaroslav Mudry, the sea tug
Viktor Konetsky and the tanker Yelnya that are accomplishing planned
long-distance deployment missions has completed its transit of the Strait of
Dover and the English Channel," the press office said in a statement.
During their
long-distance deployment, the combat teams of the Yaroslav Mudry practiced
searching for and detecting a notional enemy’s submarines during
anti-subsurface warfare drills in the Atlantic.
The warships embarked
on their long-distance deployment from the Baltic Fleet’s main naval base of
Baltiysk in the westernmost Kaliningrad Region on October 1 and are heading for
the Indian Ocean where they will take part for the first time in the naval
component of the Indra-2019 Russian-Indian drills that will run on December
10-19. The warships are on their long-distance deployment in compliance with
the plan of the Russian Defense Ministry’s international activity this year.
The Indra-2019 drills
will run at land and naval training ranges and at a military aerodrome of the
Indian Armed Forces. About 300 troops from Russia’s Eastern Military District
will take part in the drills.
Source: ITAR-TASS
07-10-2019
