The crew of the minesweeper "Alexander Obukhov" (the lead ship of Project 12700 "Alexandrite") completed tasks on setting contact and non-contact trawls and forcing a mine barrier in the Baltic Sea. This was reported by the press service of the Baltic Fleet.
The minesweeper "Alexander Obukhov" arrived in the designated square of the sea range. There, the sailors discovered training anchor (held at a certain depth using a steel cable — a mine rope) and bottom mines (installed in shallow water, reacting to the acoustic, magnetic, or hydrodynamic field of the enemy's ship).
The completion of task K-2 ended at sea with a series of artillery firings at sea and air targets.
As part of the course task, the crew's readiness to conduct combat in various operational and tactical situations is assessed. For the Baltic Fleet's personnel, this is "an exam for combat maturity", the fleet's press service summarized.
About the Minesweeper "Alexander Obukhov"
The basic minesweeper of Project "Alexander Obukhov" of the third rank is designed to search for and destroy mines in the near and far sea zone. The ship was designed at the Central Marine Design Bureau "Almaz".
It was laid down in 2011 at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant in St. Petersburg. The ship was launched in the summer of 2014. "Alexander Obukhov" was transferred to the Russian Navy in 2016.
The minesweeper is equipped with artillery, missile, mine-torpedo weapons, including the "Gelatin" trawl simulator and the "Livadia-M" mine detection sonar station. Multifunctional unmanned complexes "Orlan-10" are placed on board.
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