This September and October the Russian Armed Forces will increase the combat training intensiveness conducting exercise of different scale, says press center of RF Defence Ministry.
According to the Training plan of the forces in the eastern part of the Mediterranean adopted in the end of 2014, an exercise with the Russian Navy formation including the Moskva missile cruiser, Smetlivy guard ship, Saratov major landing ship and the auxiliary vessels is scheduled for this period.
In the course of the training activity, the Russian ships will practice organization of antisubmarine, antiship and air defence as well as search-and-rescue activities and rendering assistance to a distressed vessel.
During the exercise, the military seamen are to perform over 40 different combat tasks including missile and artillery firings at surface and aerial targets.
To provide safety navigation, the exercise zone was declared dangerous for civil aircraft and ships according the international law.