SEVEROMORSK. Oct 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Pilots of deck-based aircraft of the Russian Northern Fleet started exercises to improve their piloting skills in open seas immediately after a group of Northern Fleet vessels left Turkey's territorial waters.
Three crews performed about a dozen takeoffs from and landings at the deck of the anti-submarine vessel Admiral Chabanenko and the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky, the Northern Fleet information and public relations department told Interfax.
The crews practiced their piloting skills during both daylight and nighttime flights when the ships were in motion.
The Pyotr Veliky also replenished its stocks in the Aegean Sea using the Shakhtyor rescue boat belonging to the Black Sea Fleet.
"During the naval exercises aimed at training the replenishment of stocks, the loading of containers during anchorage was practiced. The cargos were loaded using both the loading equipment on board the cruiser and the Black Sea Fleet vessel, which delivered the cargo," it said.
Despite rough seas, the crews of both the cruiser and the rescue boat quickly and efficiently carried out their task of replenishing the stocks, it said.