The guard ship
Yaroslav Mudry, the tanker Yelnya and the sea tug Viktor Konetsky took part in
the drills.
KALININGRAD, February
26. /TASS/. The Baltic Fleet’s naval task force comprising the guard ship
Yaroslav Mudry, the tanker Yelnya and the sea tug Viktor Konetsky practiced
repelling a terrorist attack during its deployment to the Indian Ocean, the
Fleet’s press office reported on Wednesday.
"The anti-terror
squad participating in the long-distance deployment has held a training
exercise to repel a notional terrorist group’s attack on the naval group,"
the press office said in a statement.
The guard ship and
the sea tanker are carrying specially trained groups from the Baltic Fleet’s
marine infantry.
The crew of the guard
ship Yaroslav Mudry also replenished fresh water and fuel supplies from the sea
tanker Yelnya. The warship’s crew also held ship damage control drills.
The ships 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 set off for the
Indian Ocean. In December, the warships took part for the first time in the
naval phase of the Indra-2019 Russian-Indian drills, in the Maritime Security
Belt Russia-China-Iran naval maneuvers and in the Russian-Japanese anti-piracy
exercise.
The Yaroslav Mudry is
a Project 11540 ‘Yastreb’ guard ship (frigate) built at the Yantar Shipyard on
the Baltic coast in Kaliningrad. It is designated to search for, detect and
track enemy submarines, provide anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare defense for
warships and support vessels, deliver strikes against surface targets at sea
and at bases, support land troops’ combat operations and provide for the
landing of amphibious assault forces and accomplish other tasks. The Yaroslav
Mudry has been operational in Russia’s Baltic Fleet since July 2009.
Source: ITAR-TASS
26-02-2020
