MOSCOW. Aug 28 (Interfax) - Russia's Baltic Fleet has conducted a tactical exercise involving artillery and missile strikes on targets imitating warships and aircraft of the imaginary enemy.
"Apart from artillery firing, the corvettes, small missile ship, and boats drilled electronic missile launches on ships of an imaginary enemy," the fleet said in a statement obtained by Interfax.
The ships additionally drilled searching for and tracking submarines of the imaginary enemy, as well as deep-water bombing and planting mines, the statement said.
About 20 ships of the Baltic Fleet, including the Steregushchy, Stoiky, and Boiky corvettes, the Minsk and Kaliningrad landing ships, the Geiser and Passat small missile ships, several missile boats, destroyers, minesweepers, and auxiliary ships, were involved in the exercise.