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December 12, 2020 (Google Translation) – A detachment of ships of the Baltic Fleet, consisting of the Boiky and Steregushchy corvettes, arrived at the permanent basing point – Baltiysk – after completing planned combat training tasks in the waters of the North Atlantic. The ships were at sea for over 70 days. During the cruise, corvettes covered about 10 thousand…
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November 18, 2020 (Google Translation) – As part of scheduled training flights, the crews of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation completed the tasks of night refueling of aircraft with fuel in the air over the Kaliningrad region. In the course of combat training, the crews of the Su-30SM multipurpose fighters and the Su-24M front-line bombers performed in-air refueling from the…
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October 27, 2020 (Google Translation) – The crew of the newest Project 22800 Karakurt small missile ship (MRK) Odintsovo, built at the Pella shipyard for the Baltic Fleet, fired from the Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and cannon system as part of state tests, together with representatives of the plant. As air targets were used small-sized aircraft targets M-6, delivered by Su-27…
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September 8, 2020 (Google Translation) – Small missile ship (MRK) “Zeleny Dol”, which has successfully completed the planned missile firing in the White Sea, makes an inter-fleet transition. At present, a small rocket ship of the Baltic Fleet is sailing along inland waterways through the White Sea-Baltic Canal, Lake Ladoga and will leave for the Neva in the coming days.…
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August 29, 2020 (Google Translation) – As part of the planned combat training of the Baltic Fleet forces, the Green Dol small missile ship (MRK) in the White Sea successfully fired a cruise missile of the Kalibr sea-based complex at a coastal target at the Chizha training ground. The rocket fire was preceded by a difficult inter-fleet passage across the…
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August 26, 2020 (Google Translation) – At a tactical exercise of the Baltic Fleet’s anti-submarine forces in the training grounds located in the Baltic Sea, the crews of the Stoyky corvette and the small anti-submarine ships Aleksin and Kabardino-Balkaria worked out the tasks of finding and destroying a simulated enemy submarine. In the course of the exercise, the ships, in…
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August 18, 2020 (Google Translation) – The crews of the Boikiy corvette, the Kabardino-Balkaria small anti-submarine ship and the Sibiryakov hydrographic vessel of the Baltic Fleet provide state tests of the Volkhov diesel-electric submarine (SSK), which are taking place in combat training areas in the Baltic Sea. The diesel-electric submarine crew, as part of the tests, conducted diving to various…
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August 6, 2020 (Google Translation) – The forces of the Baltic Fleet are currently taking part in the activities of the Russian Navy’s inter-naval exercise “Ocean Shield 2020”. As part of the maneuvers, several naval groups went out to the training ranges of the Baltic Fleet in the Baltic Sea to conduct a number of tactical exercises. Ship search-and-strike and…
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June 18, 2020 (Google Translation) – The ships of the Baltic Fleet, observing the exercises of the NATO forces “Baltops 2020”, returned to their permanent bases The ships of the Baltic Fleet completed the tasks in the naval training grounds of the fleet, returned to the main naval base of the city of Baltiysk and began planned military training and…
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June 19, 2020 (Google Translation) – As part of the flight-tactical exercise, the crews of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation worked out a search for submarines of the conditional enemy and carried out practical bombing in sea and ground ranges. The planned event was attended by more than 10 crews of attack and military transport helicopters Mi-24 and Mi-8, as…
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