Russian ships practise in the Barents Sea

Together with the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Peter the Great (Project 1144), more than ten Russian units have been training in the Barents Sea. The minesweepers, submarines, submarine hunters and missile ships of the Northern Fleet trained a range of different scenarios under the command of the Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet, Vice Admiral Oleg Golubev. After leaving the Severomorsk base, they first had to cross a fairway through simulated minefields and fend off attacks from attackers in speedboats. The exercises on the high seas then centred on submarine hunting exercises, in which Ka-27 helicopters with their APM-73V-MAD submersible sonar system were also deployed. In support, an Ilyushin Il-38 submarine hunter laid a chain of hydroacoustic buoys.

Text: mb; Photo: MoD Russia