Crews of rocket ships "Dagestan" and "Tatarstan", small rocket and artillery ships "Grad Sviyazhsk", "Uglich", "Velikiy Ustyug", "Volgodonsk", "Astrakhan", "Makhachkala" of the Caspian Flotilla and combat crews of radio engineering posts joint exercise on the detection of surface and air targets with the subsequent issuance of target indications to ships for the use of missile and artillery weapons,
says release.The training involved the over-the-horizon radar station “Sunflower”.
It is reported that "the main feature of the Sunflower Radar Station is its over-the-horizon view - it is capable of detecting sea surface and air objects at different heights both within the line of sight and beyond the horizon line."
The press service added that the exercise was carried out “to test the issues of interaction between the Podsolnukh radar and the command and control points of the ships when surface and air targets were detected, with a further release of situation data and target indications for use weapons».