The anti-submarine
warfare forces will practice the final stage of the drills on May 26 and return
to their permanent bases, according to the Fleet’s press office.
MURMANSK, May 26.
/TASS/. The Northern Fleet ships completed anti-submarine warfare drills in the
Barents Sea, the Fleet’s press office reported on Tuesday.
The drills that
lasted several days involved the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, the large
anti-submarine warfare ship Severomorsk and small anti-subsurface ships from
the water area protection brigade of the Northern Fleet’s Kola Flotilla of
All-Arms Forces, the press office specified.
"The ships’
maneuvers lasted several days. While searching for a notional enemy’s
submarines in the close-in maritime zone, the naval sailors practiced
inter-operability with anti-submarine warfare aviation. At various stages of
the exercise, the tasks in the Barents Sea were accomplished by the crews of
Tu-142, Il-38 and Ka-27PL anti-submarine warfare aircraft and helicopters,
which operated from coastal aerodromes," the press office said in a
statement.
Several submarines of
the Kola Flotilla simulated the enemy force operating against the naval search
and strike groups, the press office specified.
The anti-submarine
warfare forces will practice the final stage of the drills on May 26 and return
to their permanent bases, the statement says.
Source: ITAR-TASS
26-05-2020.
