Moscow-Sana
Su-27SM3 and Su-30M2 fighters of the joint aviation unit of the Russian Southern Military District carried out training flights over the Black Sea and mock raids on enemy ships.
"The pilots of advanced fighters worked on the tasks of repelling air aggression on a naval base and directing an air strike on hypothetical enemy ships, in cooperation with the forces of the Black Sea Fleet," the head of the Information Support Department of the Black Sea Fleet Command Alexei Rolyov told Sputnik news agency. The crews of the anti-submarine aircraft and patrol ship Vasily Bykov and the Kasimov and Esk anti-submarine ships.
Rolyov added: “One of the features of this stage of training flights is the work on the implementation of joint coordination operations by fighter crews when striking at enemy floating targets,” noting that during the implementation of these tasks, the aircraft crews developed their skills in performing complex air maneuvers and tactics of intercepting and attacking air targets and confronting electronic means. enemy wireless.
On the thirteenth of this month, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that American reconnaissance planes were detected in the Black Sea region and escorted 4 NATO planes over it, stressing that "the aggressive activity of NATO represents a threat to regional security."