Hello, NATO: Russia checks air defense in Crimea
Anti-aircraft missile units of the Black Sea Fleet practiced hitting enemy air targets and tested air defense systems in Crimea.
The press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported this, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The anti-aircraft gunners conducted about a hundred training sessions over two weeks of exercises.
“During the training, which took place at the Opuk interservice training ground, commanders of all levels developed skills in managing subordinate personnel while repelling air strikes of a mock enemy with crews of the Osa air defense system and Igla MANPADS.
During the first two weeks of field work, anti-aircraft gunners conducted about 100 training sessions to detect and engage aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and mock enemy missiles, performing electronic missile launches,” the statement says.
PolitNavigator previously reported that an entire squadron of NATO military aircraft was circling the Crimean border , conducting reconnaissance and practicing possible strikes on the peninsula. Ukraine provided the Americans with airspace.
PolitNavigator also wrote that US bombers in the skies over Ukraine foreshadow bloody provocations.
Hello , NATO: Russia Tests Air Defenses in Crimea