MOSCOW. Sept 18 (Interfax) - Anti-submarine ships of the Russian Baltic Fleet's Leningrad Naval Base have practiced hunting for and destroying simulated enemy submarines in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Fleet said on Wednesday.
"A hunter-killer group comprised of the Urengoi and Kazanets small anti-submarine ships of the Baltic Fleet's Leningrad Naval Base practiced their core functions, looking for a simulated enemy's submarines and destroying them by imitating the use of anti-submarine weapons," it said.
Apart from anti-submarine missions, the ships practiced deploying mines, firing artillery systems upon seaborne and aerial targets, and carrying out joint maneuvers, it said.
The exercise in the Gulf of Finland was planned in advance, it said.