Naval groups of the Black Sea Fleet’s combat ships returned to their home bases on the Crimean Peninsula and in Novorossiysk after large-scale drills in the Black Sea, the Fleet’s press office reported on Monday.
"At naval combat training ranges, the crews of warships operating as part of combined arms and specific-type tactical groups accomplished combat training tasks of engaging in a sea battle and holding artillery fire against the targets simulating the hypothetical enemy’s warships and air attack weapons," the press office said in a statement.
The warships’ crews held communications, ship damage control, air defense, and anti-submarine warfare drills along with an exercise of anti-sabotage defense for ships during the anchorage in an unsafe roadstead and in transit by sea, the press office specified.
After carrying out planned maintenance measures and replenishing inventories, the crews of the Black Sea Fleet’s ships will continue accomplishing assigned missions. The scheduled maneuvers of the Black Sea Fleet’s forces that came to an end involved over 20 combat ships of various classes, in particular, frigates, guard ships, missile corvettes, and missile boats, amphibious assault ships, small anti-submarine warfare ships, and also mine countermeasure ships," the statement reads.
