RF Navy’s Pacific Fleet is beginning a summer training period, says press center of RF Defence Ministry. During the summer training period, the Fleet’s servicemen are to take part in more than 100 combat training events aimed at increasing their sea, field, air and special skills to the level necessary for successful accomplishment of combat tasks. Practical actions of ship and submarine forces, coastal troops and naval aviation of the Fleet will be practised during many exercises. In addition, warships and support vessels will perform tasks in remote areas of the World Ocean both independently and as part of the permanent operational formation of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.
The priority directions for the summer training period are qualitative increase of the level of combat training of the forces and troops of the Pacific Fleet, selection and training of professional cadres of officers, warrant officers and sergeants, and increase of the effectiveness of training in formations and units of the Fleet. In the summer, for the first time in recent years, a large group of young officers will arrive at the Fleet – about 150 Lieutenants, graduated from higher educational institutions of the Russian Defence Ministry and military subdepartments of civilian educational institutions.