The Russian Pacific Fleet has conducted a practice firing in the sea area between Japan and Vladivostok, which is said to have led to protests on the Japanese side.
Moscow information
"In the waters of the Sea of Japan, two Pacific Fleet missile boats each fired a Moskit cruise missile at a simulated enemy sea target. The target at a distance of 100 kilometres was successfully hit by a direct hit from two missiles," according to the Russian Ministry of Defence's announcement on 28 March 2023.
Video worth seeing
The Kremlin has also published image sequences worth seeing of at least one of the two Russian Tarantul III-class missile carriers from various angles via the ministry: "R261" with the hull number 991, one of the nameless Tarantul-III-class missile ships (project 1241M, 56 metres long, 450 tonnes displacement), which are equipped with two twin launchers for four SS-N-22 Sunburn (3M-82 Moskit-M, P-270, 160 kilometres), fires a cruise missile in the sea dotted with ice floes - incidentally also against an island backdrop. As can also be seen in the video, "R261" was accompanied by the "Marshal Krylov" with the number 331 (Marshal Nedelin class, project 1914, 25,000 tonnes, 1990), the Pacific Fleet's platform responsible for orbital surveys in the firing range. The Pacific Fleet has a total of eleven Tarantuls and four Nanuchkas.
Firing range survey ship "Marshal Klylov". Photo: chinamil.com
No reason for protest
If you take the video, then this shooting could not have taken place far from the Russian coast. Even if relations between Japan and the Russian Federation have deteriorated significantly recently due to the war in Ukraine and the Sino-Russian naval movements in and around Japan's coastal waters, this shooting is certainly newsworthy, but not a major cause for protest that the media should be polishing up!
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