The Kaliningrad amphibious attack alighting boat from Russia’s Baltic Fleet has set cruise for a Baltic Sea to take partial in a BALTOPS 2012 naval drills on Jun 1-16, a press use of a Western troops district said.
The Kaliningrad left a home bottom in Baltiisk in Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad on Thursday to join over 20 aspect ships and some 20 aircraft from NATO countries in a accumulation of training missions, including anti-submarine warfare, sea rescue and counter-terrorism.
BALTOPS is an annual troops practice hold in a Baltic Sea and surrounding regions given 1971. Since 1993 it has been a vital writer to a NATO module Partnership for Peace.
Warships from Russia’s Baltic Fleet formerly took partial in BALTOPS exercises 19 times.
The Kaliningrad vessel entered use in Dec 1984 and has carried out a series of training missions in a Baltic, North and Mediterranean seas, as good as in a Atlantic Ocean.
Kaliningrad category ships are able of carrying adult to 500 tons of cargo, 13 tanks and some-more than 200 naval infantry.