Moscow. May 22. INTERFAX - Military personnel of the Anti-sabotage Forces and Means Squad (PDSS) The Leningrad Naval Base conducted tactical exercises and firing from patrol boats in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Sunday.
"An episode of countering a watercraft violating the navigation regime in the Gulf of Finland was worked out. The combat group of the PDSS detachment on patrol boats moved forward to intercept the conditional violator, simultaneously "ejecting" the divers. The violator resisted, as a result, the assault and seizure of the boat was carried out with the use of weapons," the report says.
At the second stage of the exercise, the crews of patrol boats practiced firing from standard weapons, large-caliber 14.5 mm machine guns and 7.62 mm Pecheneg machine guns at surface and coastal targets near the island of Powerful.
"In addition, during the exercise, the personnel of the anti-DSS squad prevented the breakthrough of conditional underwater saboteurs to the ships. Techniques of underwater combat with the use of special underwater pistols SPP-1, underwater APS submachine guns, as well as cold weapons were worked out," the fleet reports.
According to him, the exercises are planned, they involved several dozen military personnel, patrol boats of the Grachonok and Raptor types, as well as special and robotic equipment for monitoring the underwater situation.
