Ships of the Caspian Flotilla practiced artillery fire, destruction of a floating mine, and missile strikes during the strategic exercises "Ocean-2024". The Russian Ministry of Defense involved the missile ship "Dagestan", small artillery ships "Volgodonsk" and "Astrakhan".
The ship crews practiced tasks to destroy a sea mine posing a threat to civil navigation. The target was fired upon from standard large-caliber machine guns.
Also, the warships carried out artillery fire from 100-mm guns at a sea target simulating a warship of a mock enemy.
A tactical group of the flotilla, consisting of two small missile ships, practiced tasks to strike a mock enemy ship detachment with sea-based missile weapons, performing electronic launches of anti-ship cruise missiles "Caliber".
In addition, as part of the exercises, submarines, warships, and coastal missile systems of the Northern and Pacific Fleets launched a joint missile strike against mock enemy sea targets. In the Sea of Japan, the missile boats "R-18" and "R-14" were the first to fire "Mosquito" cruise missiles.
After that, in order to weaken the enemy's air defense assets, the corvette of the Pacific Fleet "Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov" struck the target with a Kh-35 cruise missile from the "Uran" missile system.
Another strike on a complex target position was carried out by the crew of the nuclear-powered missile cruiser "Omsk". Two anti-ship cruise missiles "Granit" were launched at the target from a submerged position. From the coast of the Sea of Japan, the targets of the mock enemy were also attacked by calculations of the coastal missile systems "Bal" and "Bastion" of the Pacific Fleet. The firing was carried out with Kh-35 and "Onyx" cruise missiles, respectively.
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