Corvette "Persistent", which in the long March, successfully fulfilled the task of search, detection and elimination of submarines of the conditional opponent.
Together with "Persistent" in the March went average sea tanker "Cola" and sea tug "James Grebelsky". A detachment of ships left the main base of the BF in Baltiysk on December 16. Their main task is to provide a naval presence and display the St. Andrew's flag in various areas of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
During the transition, an order was received to find and destroy an enemy submarine. On Board the "Resistant" based helicopter Ka-27PL. In cooperation with him, the crew of the corvette conducted exercises to search for, track the submarine and strike it with the use of an anti-submarine weapons system.
As part of the combat training at the sea crossing, training was also held to repel attacks by air attack vehicles from various heights and directions, Captain Roman Martov, head of the information support department of the press service of the Western Military District for the Baltic Fleet, told the Military-Industrial Courier.
Vladislav Rzhevskiy, the correspondent of "MIC" (Kaliningrad)