Bombing and providing air cover for a ground grouping of troops were practiced by pilots from the Baltic Fleet (BF) bombing aviation crews, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"As part of routine drills the crews of Sukhoi Su-24 frontline bombers of the Fleet's aviation group carried out precision bombing strikes and destroyed the manpower and military hardware of an adversary at an aviation site in the Kaliningrad region," the BF said in a press release obtained by Interfax-AVN on Thursday.
The crews carried out precision bombing against full-size targets simulating engineering structures, manpower and hardware of an adversary.
The four major Russian Navy fleets will hold a joint exercise in late
January in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It will be the biggest
such event in decades.
Commands for the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific fleets have
been preparing for the exercises since December of last year, the
Russian Defense Ministry has announced. Warships detached for the event
are currently sailing to those regions.
