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Monday, September 15, 2014

Russia’s Pacific Fleet Begins Spot Checks Over Seas of Japan and Okhotsk

Tu-142 Bear-F/JThe Russian Naval Aviation's Pacific Fleet has started spot checks in airspace over the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk to check the combat readiness of the Eastern Military District (VVO), the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.

"Crews of the long range Tu-142 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft and Il-38 medium-range ASW aircraft from Pacific Fleet air bases started to working out a series of tactical objectives in anti-submarine warfare in the airspace over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. Aircraft took off from airfields stationed in Primorye and Kamchatka," according to a statement from the Defense Ministry.

The aircraft tests include search tasks, classification and tracking mock enemy submarines using radar and sonar anti-submarine warfare.

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