Russia conducts anti-ship missile check within the Sea of ​​Japan

Launch of a missile from a Russian Navy warshipEuropa Press

They have carried out an assault on “a simulated enemy warship”

The Russian Armed Forces have carried out a check on Tuesday with anti-ship missiles within the Gulf of Peter the Great, positioned within the Sea of ​​Japan, as confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry, which has indicated that two vessels have carried out practices in opposition to a simulated enemy.

Thus, it has indicated in an announcement revealed on its web site that two vessels, a part of the Pacific Fleet, have participated in “deliberate fight coaching actions” during which they’ve launched two ‘Moskit’ cruise missiles, often called ‘ SS-N-22 Sunburn’ inside NATO.

The Ministry has detailed that each vessels have carried out an assault in opposition to “a simulated enemy warship” that was a couple of hundred kilometers away, earlier than assuring that “it was efficiently hit by a direct hit of two missiles of cruiser ‘Moskit'”. “The safety of the fight train has been assured by ships and planes of the Naval Aviation of the Pacific Fleet”, she has reviewed. After that, the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yoshimasa Hayasi, has indicated that the Russian troops have “intensified” their actions within the jap finish of the nation, in keeping with the Japanese information company Kiodo.

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