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Nuclear submarine K-44 Ryazan
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Russia conducts military exercises in the Arctic using submarines and fighters.
Russian nuclear submarine fired missiles from under the ice in the Arctic. On Friday, March 26, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Evmenov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports TASS.
According to him, “practical torpedo firing by a nuclear submarine from under the ice was carried out, followed by equipment of a hole at the torpedo’s ascent point and its ascent to the surface.”
Evmenov also said that for the first time in history, during an exercise in the Arctic, three Russian nuclear submarines performed a simultaneous ascent from under the ice at a distance of up to 300 m from each other.
In addition, for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy, two MiG-31 fighters flew over the North Pole with air refueling for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy.
“Within the framework of the Arctic expedition, for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy, … a flight to the polar region with refueling in the air of a pair of MiG-31 fighters with the passage of the geographic point of the North Pole was carried out,” said Evmenov.
“For the first time, according to a single concept and plan, a complex of combat training, research and practical measures of various directions is being carried out in the circumpolar regions,” said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy.
More than 600 military and civilian personnel and about 200 types of weapons, military and special equipment are involved in the expedition. The average temperature in the area is minus 25-30 degrees Celsius, the thickness of the ice cover reaches 1.5 m, and the wind is 32 m / s.
Let’s remind, last week for the first time in history Russia simultaneously withdrawn all six submarines Of the Black Sea Fleet on alert at sea.
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