At the final stage of the exercise, the crews of the minesweeping ships also destroyed models of floating mines with small-caliber artillery fire, and also worked out tasks for radiation, chemical and biological protection of personnelKALININGRAD, October 26.
/tass/. The Baltic Fleet's minesweeping group, consisting of the Pavel Henov base minesweeper and the RT-57 raid minesweeper, worked out tasks during the exercises to search for and destroy sea mines set by the conditional enemy, as well as to safely send warships to the area of their deployment. This was reported by the press service of the fleet.
"As part of the tasks in the Baltic Sea, the ship's trawling group of the Baltic Fleet, consisting of the base minesweeper Pavel Henov and the raid minesweeper RT-57, successfully defused mines set by the enemy," the press service said.
It is noted that in accordance with the plan of the exercise in the landfills located in the Baltic Sea, the minesweepers of the ships of the protection of the water area of the Leningrad Naval base worked out actions to ensure the deployment of the naval forces of the Baltic Fleet from the base point and on the passage by sea in the conditions of the use of mine weapons by a conditional enemy.
"During the joint search and minesweeping in a given square, the crews of the Pavel Henov base minesweeper and the RT-57 raid minesweeper successfully detected and destroyed bottom and anchor training mines placed by the conditional enemy. The mines were shot by ship's weapons at the points of their detection," the press service told TASS.
At the final stage of the exercise, the crews of the minesweeping ships also destroyed mock-ups of floating mines with small-caliber artillery fire, and also worked out tasks for radiation, chemical and biological protection of personnel.
RT-57 is a raid minesweeper of project 10750, cipher "Sapphire", designed for mine protection, search, trawling and destruction of mines in coastal areas, in areas of naval bases, dispersed basing at depths of no more than 80 m.
Standard displacement - 131 tons, full - 135 tons; length - 31.5 m, width - 6.5 m. Full speed 12 knots. Equipped with a mine-destroying seeker KIU-1 (or KIU-2M "Anaconda", a deep-water contact trawl GKT-3-MO), an acoustic trawl AT-6, a solenoid electromagnetic trawl SAMT-1 or cord charges 2x200 m.
BT-115 Pavel Henov is the base minesweeper of Project 12650. Designed to destroy mines and minefields, their installation. The full displacement is 460 tons, the length of the ship is 49 m, the width is 8.8 m. Full speed - 14 knots. Equipped with trawls GKT-2, AT-6 PET-4, ST-2, TS-1, seeker-destroyer KIU-1 (KIU-2 or KIU-2-2M), cord charges 2x200 m.
