VLADIVOSTOK. Aug 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The large-scale exercise that is underway in the Russian Far East and Pacific Ocean will allow the Russian Navy to elaborate combat documents determining its role in the state of emergency and in combating terrorism, Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Kuroyedov said on Tuesday.
"Collection of material for working out the Navy's guidelines for combat that must determine the Navy's role and missions in the state of emergency and active combat against terrorism as precisely as possible on the basis of federal laws and the National Maritime Doctrine is among the most important goals of the exercise," Kuroyedov, who supervises the exercise, told reporters.
"Let us consider, for example, the Law on National Emergency on the Russian Territory that has existed since 2001. The Navy must work out documents supporting the law and joint documents with other ministries and departments," the commander-in-chief stressed.
The Navy in general and the Pacific Fleet in particular have accomplished missions related to actions in the state of emergency and full-scale combat against terrorist formations, and "the current exercise will make it possible to bring theory and practice together," Kuroyedov stressed.
"In particular, scientists of the Naval Academy are assigned the mission to work out methods of involving all Navy branches in special operations of that kind both on the ground and in the sea," Kuroyedov said.
He stressed that missions of the exercise's first stage have been accomplished. The stage ended on Tuesday.
"During this stage, the Navy's control bodies worked out and made appropriate decisions acting in accordance with instructions for a special operation on the ground and in the sea. Planning of operations is underway," Kuroyedov said.