Moscow. The 14th of February. INTERFAX - Ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) have worked out the destruction of a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk, the press service of the fleet reported.
"After joint maneuvering in the Sea of Okhotsk, the detachment of the forces of the Pacific Fleet was divided into tactical groups of ships and performed the first episode of combat training exercises to destroy the ships of a conditional enemy from artillery installations," the report says.
A group consisting of the corvettes "Perfect", "Loud" and "Aldar Tsydenzhapov" performed artillery firing on a group of targets simulating a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy. At the same time, the second group consisting of the frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov", the large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Panteleev" and the corvette "Gremyashchy" conducted artillery fire on targets simulating an enemy landing party.
"Soon, as part of the exercise, the crews of the ships will have to perform artillery firing on air targets, having worked out the standards for repelling the means of air attack of a conditional enemy, as well as destroy mock-ups of floating mines in an area with a conditional mine danger," the message added.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Marshal Shaposhnikov forced an American submarine to leave the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril region, where the Russian Navy is conducting exercises.
The incident occurred on February 12 at 10:40 in the area of a planned exercise of the Pacific Fleet forces in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation near the island of Urup of the Kuril Ridge. A US Navy submarine of the Virginia type was found there, the ministry said in a statement.
It was noted that the crew of the submarine was notified of its presence in Russian territorial waters, he was given a request for immediate surfacing, which was ignored.
"In accordance with the guiding documents on the protection of the state border of the Russian Federation in the underwater environment, the crew of the frigate of the Pacific Fleet Marshal Shaposhnikov used appropriate means," the report says.
"The American submarine used a self-propelled simulator to split targets on radar and acoustic monitoring equipment and left the territorial waters of the Russian Federation at maximum speed," the report says.
