The ships’ crews
conducted electronic missile launches, the Fleet’s press office specified.
SEVASTOPOL, April 28.
/TASS/. The Black Sea Fleet’s latest missile corvette Ingushetia and missile
boats eliminated a notional enemy’s surface ships with Kalibr and Moskit cruise
missiles during drills, the Fleet’s press office reported on Tuesday.
"The crews of
the small missile ship Ingushetia and the missile boats Naberezhniye Chelny and
Ivanovets accomplished the assigned missions within a surface action group. At
the final stage of the drills, the crews of the Fleet’s ships successfully
fulfilled the assignment of eliminating a notional enemy with Kalibr and Moskit
anti-ship missiles," the press office said in a statement.
"In
accomplishing their mission, the crews achieved simultaneous calculated target
destruction at different distances to the targets and time of launches and also
with different types of missiles," the statement reads.
The ships’ crews
conducted electronic missile launches, the Fleet’s press office specified.
Before that, the
sailors practiced the ships’ joint deployment and combat maneuvering as a
homogeneous naval tactical group and held drills for providing communications
and air defense for a naval group during its transit at sea, the statement
says.
The small missile
ship Ingushetia has been built for the Black Sea Fleet and is the eighth
upgraded Project 21631 ‘Buyan-M’ vessel. The new warship was floated out in
June 2019 and entered service with the Black Sea Fleet on December 28, 2019.
The Ingushetia is not
the first warship of this class in the combat structure of Russia’s Black Sea
Fleet.
Project 21631
Buyan-M-class small missile ships are outfitted with the latest artillery,
missile, anti-saboteur, air defense and radio-technical armament, including the
most advanced Kalibr-NK precision missile system designated to strike naval and
coastal targets.
Source: ITAR-TASS
28-04-2020
