VLADIVOSTOK. May 4 (Interfax) - Russian Pacific Fleet anti-submarine ships destroyed a mock enemy submarine during an exercise off the coast of the Primorye Territory, the fleet's press service said on Thursday.
"The crews of small anti-submarine ships conducted an anti-submarine tactical qualification exercise in the Peter the Great Gulf," the press service said.
In line with the Pacific Fleet's combat training plan, the initial phase of the drills saw steps to form two search and strike groups, with one group made up of the Sovetskaya Gavan and Koreyets small anti-submarine ships, and the second group consisting of the MPK-82 and MPK-221.
Each group of ships was assigned to a certain combat training sector, where it had to detect and destroy a mock enemy submarine.
The fleet's diesel-electric submarine, which posed as the mock enemy submarine, intensively counteracted the ships during the exercise.
One search and strike group tackled its task in interaction with a Kamov Ka-27PL helicopter from the Pacific Fleet's air force, while the second group of ships used onboard anti-submarine weapons during the drills.
The ships used a sonar to detect the mock enemy submarine and fired torpedo weapons to simulate its destruction.