Russian naval and air drills will be held in Mediterranean on permanent basis
Large scale naval and air exercises Ocean Shield will be held in the Mediterranean on the permanent basis, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a distance conference on Friday.
This year the Ocean Shield exercise was held for the first time.
Shoigu pointed out that a large inter-fleet naval group had been created in the Mediterranean "for independently coping with a wide range of tasks in a changing situation."
"The command of the exercise was carried out from St. Petersburg and the support facility in Syria’s Tartus," he added.
On September 1-8 a total of 26 ships, including two submarines and 34 aircraft of the Navy and the Aerospace Force conducted a joint exercise in the Mediterranean.
Missile launches from ships, helicopters and planes were carried out.
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