VLADIVOSTOK, Sept 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Two MIG-31 Foxhound long-range fighters have effected cruise missile interception from an on-duty sector for the first time in the Pacific Fleet aviation history, a spokesman for the fleet headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
The missiles, which are used to inflict strikes on sea targets, were launched by strategic missile carriers, the spokesman said. The MIG planes implemented this task during a command post exercise that has ended in the Pacific Fleet.
Actions with the group of forces as a unity of formations from different branches under the single command has been trained only once before since its establishment, said Pacific Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Gennady Suchkov. Nevertheless the exercise showed that control over such a structure has been worked out and a precise algorithm of control over the group's forces has appeared. This helps to plan thoroughly the group's application for accomplishment of assigned missions.