Great planned exercises of Pacific Navy finished in Japanese Sea

During exercises in the Japanese Sea, crews of battleships and auxiliary ships of Primorye branch of Pacific Navy (TOF) coped well with set tasks including test missile target gunnery, as the chief of TOF information and public relation service, captain Roman MARTOV reported to RIA Novosti. “Exercises of Pacific Navy Primorye branch with participation of over 20 ships and sea aviation were held in Russian waters of the Japanese Sea in the framework of summer battle training on July 8-15. During this time Pacific sailors did about 50 different exercises including gunnery,” the agency interlocutor noted. According to him, during the exercises trawler crews destroyed minefield, mass of maneuver repulsed “air attack.” Group shooting from missile cruiser “Varyag” and destroyer “Bystryi” with missile complex was the culmination of the exercises.” “The Pacific Navy commander vice-admiral Konstantin SIDENKO was in charge of the final stage of the exercises. According to him, the ships’ crews coped well with set tasks during the exercises,” MARTOV noted.