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Friday, June 01, 2012

Russian Warship Sails to Baltic Sea for NATO Naval Drills

Ropucha class landing shipThe Kaliningrad amphibious assault landing ship from Russia’s Baltic Fleet has set sail for the Baltic Sea to take part in the BALTOPS 2012 naval drills on June 1-16, the press service of the Western military district said.

The Kaliningrad left its home base in Baltiisk in Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad on Thursday to join over 20 surface ships and some 20 aircraft from NATO countries in a variety of training missions, including anti-submarine warfare, sea rescue and counter-terrorism.

BALTOPS is an annual military exercise held in the Baltic Sea and surrounding regions since 1971. Since 1993 it has been a major contributor to the NATO program Partnership for Peace.

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2 comments:

  1. Michał Szafran2/6/12 15:46

    Few photos of Russian and others
    http://odwaszegofotokorespondenta.blogspot.com/2012/06/baltops-2012-wejscie-okretow-do-gdyni.html

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  2. Unknown2/6/12 19:29

    Thx

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