In the Northern Fleet will be large-scale exercises with the participation of the aircraft carrier “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov”
In the next two months, a very rich program of combat training awaits the North Sea sailors, commander of the North fleet Vice Admiral Vladimir Korolev.
“The surface combat forces, nuclear and diesel submarines, marine aviation and coastal forces of the Northern Fleet, ”the fleet commander specified. - We have to perform a series of combat exercises using practical weapons, including rocket launches and artillery firing. "
It is planned that as early as August a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser (TAVKR) “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov” will be launched in order to complete the planned tasks of combat training in the Barents Sea. With his release to the sea, the deck pilots of the Northern Fleet will begin to hone their flight skills using the deck of an aircraft carrier.
At about the same time, Peter the Great, a heavy nuclear missile cruiser (TARKR), will be launched into the training grounds of the Northern Fleet, the crew of which will start working out and passing coursework tasks.
TAVKR "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" is today the only aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy. In February of this year, he made the sixth long hike in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
TARKR "Peter the Great" is also the only in the composition of the Russian Navy surface nuclear cruiser. He is known for his long-distance trips to the Caribbean, the round-the-world transition made in 2009, the transition to the Pacific Fleet and his participation in the Vostok-2010 strategic command and staff exercise.
Both cruisers are part of the rocket ships of the Northern Fleet.
Information