MOSCOW. May 12 (Interfax) - The small anti-submarine ship Naryan-Mar has conducted artillery drills with aerial targets during an exercise in the White Sea, the Northern Fleet said on Friday.
"The ship practiced shooting at mock aerial targets with Osa-MA air defense missile systems, as well as AK-176 artillery weapons and AK-630 30 mm rapid-firing fully automatic artillery systems," the fleet's press service said in a statement.
Under the exercise plan, the ship repelled a mock enemy air attack and destroyed a guided aerial bomb.
Confronting the ship were Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft from the fleet's mixed Air Force and Air Defense Army air regiment.
"The plane dropped a luminescent aerial bomb, which was destroyed by the ship's anti-aircraft missiles," the press service said.
It was a planned exercise, the press service added.
The Naryan-Mar belongs to the Project 1124 Albatros series of ships designed for searching, detecting, classifying and destroying submarines in offshore and coastal zones. The ships are armed with two twin-barrel revolving 533 mm torpedo weapon systems, RBU-6000 12-barrel rocket launchers, the Osa-MA surface-to-air missile system, and AK-176 and AK-630 artillery weapon systems.