On Friday, from 9 o’clock (according to Vladivostok time), he was raised by alarm and began bringing into the highest degree of combat readiness the Pacific Fleet (TOF) in full force. This was stated by Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu at a meeting with the leading composition of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
According to him, part of the aerospace forces, military units and security units are also involved in the event. “The main purpose of this verification is determined by the buildings of the armed forces to solve the problems of reflecting the aggression of the probable enemy from the ocean and sea directions,” said Shoigu.
During the event, the Pacific Fleet will have to reflect massive missile -anti -Aviation blows, conduct exercises to search and destroy submarines, perform torpedo, artillery shooting and missile launches during the defeat of ship -to -shock groups and terrestrial objects of a conditional enemy, ”said Shoigu.
According to the head of the defense department, the audit will have a number of features. “In practice, it is necessary to work out ways to prevent the deployment of enemy forces into the quickly important area of the Pacific Ocean – the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk and to reflect its landing to the southern Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island,” the minister said.
In addition, according to Shoigu, the main exercises with ship groups will be carried out “with the designation of the enemy’s actions and in a complex interference environment.”
In turn, the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said that a sudden check of the TOF is carried out in three stages, and the first fleet will be brought into full combat readiness. “At the second stage, special attention should be paid to the timely deployment of ship forces into the regions of the formation of groups, as well as the increase in the forces of combat duty in the air defense,” Gerasimov said.
According to him, for a sudden check of the Pacific Fleet, a training environment was created, characteristic of the period of the immediate threat of aggression. “As part of the event, it is necessary to create for the tests verified the most corresponding to the content and nature of the modern armed struggle,” he issued.
“At the last stage of the teachings of the Power of the TOF in practice, educational and combat tasks will work out,” Gerasimov added.