Russian Baltic Fleet corvettes return home after Atlantic deployment

KALININGRAD, December 9. /TASS/. A group of the Baltic Fleet’s warships comprising the corvettes Boiky and Steregushchiy returned to its home base of Baltiysk after successfully accomplishing long-distance deployment missions in the North Atlantic, Fleet Spokesman Roman Martov told TASS on Wednesday. "During their deployment that lasted 77 days, the corvettes Boiky and Steregushchiy covered a total distance of almost 9,500 nautical miles. In the Atlantic Ocean, the warships’ crews held drills for air, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare defense and practiced assigned tasks," the spokesman said. While staying in the Atlantic, the corvettes dealt with the tasks of searching for, detecting and destroying a notional enemy’s submarine with anti-submarine armament in interaction with the crews of Ka-27 helicopters of the Fleet’s naval aviation based on the decks of the Boiky and the Steregushchiy, the spokesman specified. The warships also held drills for delivering a missile strike from Uran anti-ship missile systems against a notional enemy’s naval groups with electronic missile launches and held training for the corvettes’ personnel and anti-terror squads to defend the ships against saboteurs, he said. Read more