The small rocket ship Mytishchi of the Baltic Fleet successfully fired a Kalibr cruise missile at a ground target in the White Sea. This was reported on August 23 in the press service of the fleet.
"As part of the planned combat training of the Baltic Fleet forces, the small missile ship Mytishchi in the White Sea successfully fired a cruise missile of the Kalibr sea—based complex at a coastal target at the Chizha training ground," the report says.
The press service clarified that the missile firing was preceded by a complex inter-fleet passage through the Baltic Sea to the Gulf of Finland, then by inland waterways through the Neva, Lake Ladoga and the White Sea-Baltic Canal to the White Sea. On the Northern Fleet of the MKR "Mytishchi" made a call in Severodvinsk. In total, the crew of the ship overcame more than 2 thousand nautical miles (about 3.7 thousand km).
It is noted that in the near future the ship will make the same route to the place of permanent basing in the Baltic naval base in the city of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region.
Earlier, on August 17, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, said that Russia sells analog versions of Kalibr missiles abroad. According to him, they are in great demand among foreign operators of Russian submarines and surface ships. In addition, it is possible to install these complexes on foreign-made ships.
On July 27, it became known that the oldest submarine of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet), Alrosa, equipped with Kalibr missiles, will go to sea for the first time in eight years to undergo tests.
Kalibr is a family of Russian long—range cruise missiles, which are equipped with modern Russian ships and submarines.
