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08:50, 23.04.2008 | Far East Russia

Ships of Russia’s Pacific Fleet have begun a tactical exercise off the shores of the Primorye territory, the Fleet’s press service said.

The grouping of the naval war games includes surface ships, submarines, auxiliary seacraft, patrol and sea-based aircraft.



The scenario of the exercise is not trivial this time, as the marine units of the potential enemy force are expected to get through to the coast and organize a landfall maneuver.



The enemy should do substantial preparations for this and the assault ships carrying the marines are escorted by fleet ballistic missile ships and an impressive contingent of anti-submarine ships.



The friendly submarines will have to get through the obstacles put up by the enemy aviation and ships and organize a torpedo attack, thus frustrating the landfall operation.



This is far from the sortie of the Pacific Fleet forces into the sea since the beginning of the year,



The most recent exercise on the Sea of Japan ended at the beginning of April. In the course of it, ship crews did missile launches and artillery firing, including the one from the main anti-submarine weapons system, minelaying and drilling of all types of defense a sea voyage may involve.



At the culmination point, surface ships and submarines did a chasing maneuver, in which they pursued each other.



A submarine of the potential enemy – the role was performed by the Varshavyanka sub – clandestinely approached the friendly forces at a distance allowing of a torpedo attack at a surface ship, while the anti-submarine vessels with the aid of sea-based and patrol aviation hunted it out in the depths of the sea and incapacitated it by a precisely-targeted strike.





-Itar-Tass