Pacific Fleet ships begin exercise off Russia`s Far East shores.

VLADIVOSTOK, October 7 (Itar-Tass) - A naval exercise involving
diverse units and forces of Russia's Pacific Fleet has begun off the
shores of the Far-Eastern Primorsky /Maritime/ territory.
Officials at the Pacific Fleet's press service said the maneuvers
engage eight warships, submarines and auxiliary seacraft, as well as
aircraft and helicopters of the Air Force and the Fleet's air defenses.
Over the three days that the ships will spend in the sea, their crews
will simulate a search operation, track down a submarine of the potential
enemy and destroy it with the aid of deepwater bombs and torpedoes.
"The submarine crew playing the role of the enemy will be expected to
break through a triple ring of antisubmarine forces in the conditions of a
virtually duel situation and to deliver a strike at the main enemy targets
in the groupings of ships," a spokesman for the press service said.
All in all, the scenario of the maneuvers envisions more than a dozen
combat exercises.
Apart from the search operation, the Pacific Fleet units will do
artillery firing at surface targets, launch missile at imagined aerial
targets, and drill anti-subversion measures
This exercise marks the last phase of the 2009 summer war games.