Russian rocket scientists sent their traditional “hello” to the Americans
Russian missilemen hit a simulated enemy ship during an exercise in Crimea.
This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This happened against the background visit of an American destroyer "Donald Cook" to the Black Sea. The frigate Admiral Makarov, which was sailing from Feodosia to Sevastopol, acted as a “target”. It was attacked from the Bal and Bastion missile systems.
“During the exercise, the BPKRK “Bal” and “Bastion”, carrying out their assigned tasks in positional areas on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula and the Caucasus coast, discovered a mock enemy ship and took the target for escort... At the command from the control point, the combat crews of the BPKRK "Bal" and "Bastion" brought the complexes into battle and worked out an algorithm of actions for launching missile strikes on a mock enemy ship.
The target was conditionally destroyed by each crew in turn. The missile firing was carried out electronically,” I said in the message.
According to military expert, Captain XNUMXst Rank Sergei Gorbachev, the missile exercises are a kind of “hello” from Russia to the American military.
“This is not just a “hello”, but a tradition. As a rule, when Americans come here to solve their problems, our plans are adjusted accordingly, and we begin to solve our problems by working on real goals. Naturally, with precautions taken.
Since the Americans come here not just to display the flag and, as they say, to protect freedom of navigation, they come to study the operational regime, take stock of the situation, conduct electronic reconnaissance to reveal the activities of our defense system, security, communications system, issues related to the use of radio-electronic means, means of monitoring the air, surface, underwater situation, and so on.
We react accordingly, trying to make the most of the presence of such a significant target in the water area. Practicing electronic launches is quite normal, this is conducting exercises in an environment as close as possible to combat,” Gorbachev said.
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