In total, the participants of the exercises worked out about 30 combat exercises, including two cruise missile firings, several torpedo firings, as well as anti-aircraft missile firings MURMANSK, August 26.
/tass/. The ships and submarines, as well as the aircraft of the Northern Fleet (SF), which were involved in the exercises of the strike group in the Barents Sea and on the coast of the Arctic islands, completed combat training tasks and returned to their bases. In total, about 30 combat exercises were worked out, including launches of cruise missiles, the press service of the fleet reported on Friday.
"Surface ships, submarines and aircraft of the Northern Fleet completed joint actions within the framework of an exercise with a heterogeneous grouping of strike forces, which took place in the Barents Sea. All participants of the exercise returned to their permanent bases on the Kola Peninsula," the report says.
It is noted that more than 10 warships were involved in the exercises, including the flagship of the fleet - the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Peter the Great, the destroyer Admiral Ushakov, several nuclear and diesel-electric submarines. "During the exercise, about 30 combat exercises with the use of weapons were practiced, including two cruise missile firings, several torpedo firings, as well as anti-aircraft missile firings," the SF press service added.
Planned exercises with a grouping of heterogeneous strike forces to resolve crisis situations in the Arctic started at the Northern Fleet on August 17. They involved more than ten surface ships and submarines, as well as aviation and air defense units of the 45th Army Air Force and Air Defense. During the exercises, the tasks of defense, deterring the enemy in the Barents Sea and repelling an attack on the islands and the coast of Russia in the Arctic were worked out.
