SEVEROMORSK. March 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The Large Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Ship "Admiral Levchenko" and the Large Landing Ship (LLS) "Olenegorsky Gornyak" of the Northern Fleet (NF) have begun a joint exercise with the Baltic Fleet's LLSs "Kaliningrad" and "Minsk," an NF spokesman 1st Captain Vadim Serga told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
"The exercise involving the four ships, which make up the Russian Navy's inter-fleet group of ships, is taking place in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of the Island of Cyprus," Serga said.
The exercise is held under a single command carried out from the ASW Ship "Admiral Levchenko," he said.
"The crews carried out a number of joint exercises in sailing and formation re-arrangement with the use of visual and technical means of surveillance, and conducted an exercise for organizing of communication with signaling in accordance with the international standards for radio traffic," Serga said.
NF and BF sailors are also to take part in air-defense drills aimed at repelling aerial attacks from a variety of altitudes, he said. The exercise will also include a number of ship damage control and search-and-rescue drills.