MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Destroyers performed a complex of artillery and anti-aircraft firing in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet said.
"The combat units of the destroyers Admiral Levchenko and Vice-Admiral Kulakov practiced elements of sea battle with a mock enemy's surface ship using on-board artillery weapons. Artillery batteries AK-100 were used to hit a towed sea target," the report said.
The Admiral Levchenko destroyer conducted an exercise to repel an air attack using antiaircraft weapons.
"Kinzhal missiles were fired to hit an air target simulating a mock enemy's cruise missile installed by the small anti-submarine ship Snezhnogorsk," the fleet said
"The areas of the drills in the Barents Sea were closed to commercial navigation and aircraft," the report said.
"Upon completing their mission at sea, the destroyers of the Kola flotilla of the Northern Fleet returned to their main base," the report said.
The warships are Project 1155 destroyers armed with ASW missile systems, depth charges, torpedo tubes and other kinds of artillery and missile weapons. "In recent years, Northern Fleet destroyers have been actively used in missions during long-range deployments to the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and exploration of the Arctic," the statement said.