MOSCOW. July 1 (Interfax) - Russia's Baltic Fleet ships have conducted an air defense exercise, the fleet's press service said in a statement on Monday.
"Under the exercise plan, while implementing operational exercise tasks at one of the fleet's training ranges, the air defense crews from one of the ship groups discovered several unidentified targets classed as unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs]. Upon command, the ships' air defense weapons were put on standby," the statement said.
After identifying the objects as hostile, the UAVs were destroyed by the ships' air defense weapons, it said.
Baltic Fleet ships regularly train to counter mock enemy UAV attacks both in the sea and at permanent bases, it said.