The commander of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF), Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov, said the fleet’s warships now constantly counter US and NATO carrier groups in the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet operates in contact with Aerospace Forces aviation from the Khmeimim base in Syria, the officer said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
At present, the tasks of combating the carrier groups of the United States and NATO are constantly solved by the forces of the operational formation of the Russian Navy. Including, in cooperation with the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces based at the Khmeimim airbase (Syria)
says Sokolov.
According to him, the Black Sea Fleet has been testing robotic artificial intelligence systems that help detect and classify mines, as well as sonar and radar systems with non-traditional detection methods.
He clarified that the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the Mediterranean carry out tasks as part of the Navy Task Group. The operational command of the Black Sea Fleet in the region will be ten years old in 2023, the vice admiral recalled. According to him, the first composition of the operational command in the far sea zone entered the Mediterranean Sea in May 2013.
Earlier it was reported that the introduction of Zircon hypersonic missiles, which are equipped with the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, which entered combat service, can affect the balance of forces in the oceans and reduce the combat capability of NATO countries. This is written by the UK edition of Express. According to him, there are warships of NATO countries, including the US Sixth Fleet, in the Mediterranean basin, the appearance of Admiral Gorshkov in these waters will become a kind of “sobering up” for the bloc western.
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