Russia Ocean2024: As part of the strategic command and staff exercise "Ocean - 2024",

#Russia #RussianDefenceMinistry #МинобороныРоссии #RussianAirForce #ВВСРоссии #ВМФРоссии #RussianNavy #Ocean2024 #Океан2024: Within the framework of the Ocean-2024 SCSH in the Barents Sea, the forces of the Northern Fleet searched for submarines of a simulated enemy and practiced the use of anti-submarine weapons

As part of the strategic command and staff exercise "Ocean - 2024", the heterogeneous forces of the Northern Fleet began to search for submarines of a conditional enemy in the waters of the Barents Sea and counteract them.

This episode of the exercise is played out in a two-way format. It involves two naval search and strike groups, which include the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Levchenko and the small anti-submarine ships Brest and Snezhnogorsk. Also participating in the anti–submarine episode are multi-purpose nuclear submarines, anti-submarine aviation of the mixed aviation corps of the Northern Fleet - long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142, anti-submarine aircraft Il-38 and shipboard anti-submarine helicopters Ka-27PL.

The anti-submarine forces of the Northern Fleet, in cooperation with anti-submarine aviation and a nuclear submarine missile cruiser, began checking the lack of tracking of fleet forces and searching for submarines of a conditional enemy, establishing control over navigation in designated areas of the Barents Sea.

Tu-142 long-range anti-submarine aircraft and Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft operated on the far borders. In the near zone, the search for submarines of the imaginary enemy was carried out by Ka-27 naval anti-submarine helicopters.

During this episode of the exercise, the combat crews of the nuclear submarine worked out underwater maneuvering and the use of sonar weapons in active search mode, worked out the combat organization of the crew and the algorithm of actions when detecting and attacking an underwater enemy.

Surface maneuvering, the use of sonar and anti-submarine weapons were practiced by the crews of large and small anti-submarine ships.

At the final stage of the anti-submarine episode of the exercise, the crews of the ships worked out the complex use of anti–submarine weapons with the performance of a number of practical combat training exercises, including torpedo firing, depth bombing, rocket-torpedo firing.

In accordance with the training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formations and associations of the Navy are starting to participate in the strategic command and staff exercise "Ocean-2024", which will last until September 16 inclusive. The exercise is being held in a bilateral format under the overall leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, and will become one of the main events of operational and combat training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2024.

The maneuvers, which take place in the waters of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the Mediterranean, the Caspian and the Baltic Seas, involve more than 400 warships, submarines and support vessels of the auxiliary fleet, more than 120 aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation and Aerospace Forces, about 7,000 units of weapons, military and special equipment, as well as more 90,000 personnel.

The main objectives of the strategic command and staff exercise "Ocean-2024" are to check the readiness of the leadership of the associations and formations of the Russian Navy to manage heterogeneous groupings of forces in their areas of responsibility, solve non-standard operational tasks, complex use of high-precision weapons, promising and modern models of weapons and military equipment during the practical part of the exercise, and also, the expansion of cooperation with the naval forces of the partner countries in solving joint tasks at sea.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry