Tough training year for Northern Fleet
The next year will be even more intense when it comes to exercises and drills, said Kommander of the Northern Fleet Vice Admiral Nikolay Maksimov when opening the fleet’s new training year on Wednesday.
According to Maksimov, vessels and units from the Northern Fleet will in 2011 be involved in several exercises with submarines, surface vessels and naval infantry units. The fleet will also be conducting joint drills with air force and army units. –These are serious tasks. I believe the year will be intense, the admiral said to GTRK Murman.
The destroyer “Admiral Levchenko” recently returned to Severomorsk after five months of operations in the Gulf of Aden. Northern Fleet vessels will continue to protect ships from pirates also in 2011, Maksimov said.
In 2010 vessels and units from the Northern Fleet have been involved in the large Vostok-2010 exercise, drills in the Indian Ocean, the POMOR-2010 exercise together with Norwegian forces and series of local drills in the Barents Sea and the White Sea. In October pilots from Airwing Kuznetsov conducted drills in take-off and landing from Russia’s only Aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”, and submarines from the Northern Fleet have in course of 2010 conducted three test launches of ballistic missiles.
