MOSCOW. July 13 (Interfax) - A Russian destroyer, plane and diesel-electric submarine have held an anti-submarine exercise in the Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan.
"The Admiral Panteleyev destroyer of the Pacific Fleet trained together with an Ilyushin Il-38N anti-submarine plane of the Pacific Fleet's naval aviation in the Peter the Great Gulf," the Eastern Military District's press service said on Thursday.
"The Il-38N provided the coordinates of a mock enemy submarine spotted in the Gulf during the exercise. The Admiral Panteleyev deployed to the designated area and began searching for the mock enemy submarine. When the hostile submarine was found, the ship simulated firing its anti-submarine weapons," the press service said in a statement on the Russian Defense Ministry's website.
The fleet's diesel-electric submarine of Project 636.3 acted as the mock enemy. The exercise was held according to the fleet's combat training plan, the press service said.