The Bastion battalion performed a set of standard tasks and drills in field conditions.
SEVASTOPOL, January
28. /TASS/. A mobile coastal defense anti-ship system Bastion has carried out a
march to a deployment site in Crimea within the framework of an exercise being
held against the backdrop of the US destroyer Donald Cook’s visit to the Black
Sea, the Black Sea Fleet’s information support office said on Thursday.
Combat crews arrived
in the designated area, readied the systems for combat and carried out
preparations for virtual fire. The Bastion battalion performed a set of
standard tasks and drills in field conditions, the news release says.
In the next phase of
the battalion’s drills the Donald Cooke Bastion battalion will practice
cooperation with a Black Sea frigate. Fifteen vehicles and 100 troops are
participating in the exercise.
The mobile system
Bastion armed with anti-ship missiles Oniks was authorized for service in 2010.
According to the
International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Russian Navy has 40 such
systems. One Bastion battalion is capable of defending more than 600 of the
coast. Oniks missiles have a range of up to 500 kilometers. Firing positions
may be as far as 200 kilometers away from the coastline.
Russia’s National
Defense Command Center said on Saturday the Black Sea Fleet was monitoring the
US destroyer USS Donald Cook. Previously the destroyer visited the Black Sea on
November 23 last year. The Black Sea Fleet tracked its movements then, too.
Source: ITAR-TASS
28-01-2021
