Sea Lion "Alexandrite" Destroys Mines in the Baltic Sea

Project 12700 minesweeper practiced setting contact and non-contact trawls

The sea minesweeper "Lev Chernavin" of project 12700 "Alexandrite" of the Baltic Fleet conducted a training search for mines. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.

Sea minesweeper "Lev Chernavin" of project 12700 "Alexandrite" 
Sea minesweeper "Lev Chernavin" of project 12700 "Alexandrite"

In the naval training ranges, the crew successfully practiced setting contact and non-contact trawls, and cleared the navigable fairway of training anchor and bottom mines set the day before by a mock enemy.

Then the crew of "Lev Chernavin" destroyed mock-ups of a floating mine with small-caliber artillery fire, and also worked out a number of elements for radiation, chemical and biological protection.

Ships of this project have the world's largest hull made of monolithic fiberglass, formed by vacuum infusion - its mass is significantly less compared to a metal hull, while the strength is significantly increased.

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