Live-fire exercises in the Black Sea

Live-fire exercises in the Black Sea

The ships of the Black Sea Fleet conducted an exercise to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned boats with practical missile and artillery firing. In the course of carrying out tasks to patrol the Black Sea and protect civilian ships on intensive commercial shipping routes from threats from Ukraine, a detachment of warships of the Black Sea Fleet conducted an exercise with day and night firing from standard weapons. At the first stage of the exercise, the crew of a small anti-submarine ship practiced actions upon detection of an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the sky above the anchorage area of ​​civilian ships in front of the entrance to the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal. The Osa ship-based anti-aircraft missile system was used against the UAV.

At the second stage, actions were practiced to destroy enemy unmanned boats. During the exercise, based on data from surveillance equipment, enemy boats were detected in the area where the mission was performed, which were conditionally destroyed by artillery fire and a rocket-propelled bomb launcher. In order to improve the training of ship personnel, artillery firing and bombing were carried out in the dark. After completing combat exercises, the crews of the Black Sea Fleet ships continued to carry out missions to patrol the Black Sea and intensive commercial shipping routes.