According to the Baltic Fleet Public Affairs Office on 19 August 2025, a Baltic Fleet naval minesweeper group, consisting of the offshore minesweepers Aleksandr Obukhov and Lev Chernavyn in the waters of the Baltic Sea, conducted an maneuvers to search for and neutralize mines.
In the sea combat training range, the crew of the offshore minesweeper Lev Chernavyn successfully completed the task of laying contact and non-contact sweeps, and completed the trawling of the shipping fairway from the training anchor and bottom mines laid the day before. Additionally, the crew of the minesweeper destroyed mock-ups of floating mines from large-caliber machine guns.
During the search and sweep in the assigned quadrant, the crew of the Lev Chernavyn successfully detected and destroyed all of the training mines.
The next combat training task was a drill to destroy the unmanned boats of the notional enemy. The “enemy’s” boats rapidly approaching the ship were detected by surveillance assets in the task execution area. At the command of the duty watch officer, the deployed anti-aircraft machine gun group destroyed the designated target with precision fire.
In addition, the crew drilled in counter-sabotage defense with practice grenade throwing, along with nuclear, biological, and chemical protection activities.
The next stage of training will involve interaction within the minesweeper group.
Translation © 2025 by Michael Estes and TranslatingHistory.org
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