VLADIVOSTOK. Oct 16 (Interfax) - The R-79 corvette of the unit guarding the main base of Russia's Pacific Fleet in the Peter the Great Gulf has practiced artillery fire at naval and aerial targets, the fleet's press service said on Wednesday.
"The 76-mm Ak-176 artillery system was used to fire at an artillery shield that simulated a naval target of the imaginary enemy," the press service said in a statement.
The artillery fire was part of drills to conduct combat by a single ship, it said.
The Ak-176 multipurpose artillery system was also used on a simulated aerial target as part of repelling an aerial attack, the statement said.
The ship additionally drilled actions to deliver a cruise missile strike on a group of mock enemy ships without the actual use of weapons, it said.