02.01.2013, 14:45
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31 December
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RUSSIA (Mediterranean Deployment)
Baltic Fleet task group with frigate YAROSLAV MUDRIY, landing ships KALININGRAD and ALEXANDER SHABALIN and two auxiliary vessels has passed the Strait of Gibraltar and arrived in the Mediterranean.
Black Sea Fleet ROPUCHA class landing ship NOVOCHERKASSK passes through the Turkish Straits enroute the Mediterranean Sea.
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01 January
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RUSSIA (Mediterranean Deployment)
MoD press office announces “large-scale exercises” in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea … to be conducted in late January … involving deployed naval task groups from all four !) fleets … “practice the issues of establishing a multiservice grouping of forces (troops) outside Russia” … one focus on amphibious operations (at the “rough” Caucasus coast).
(rmks: so the Northern Fleet task group with destroyer SEVEROMORSK should not be in a hurry to deploy for anti-piracy operations to the Gulf of Aden, and even the Pacific Fleet anti-piracy group with destroyer MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV might head north for the Mediterranean)
Unconfirmed rumours that Baltic Fleet SOVREMENNIY class destroyer NASTOICHIVIY (610) is being prepared for Mediterranean deployment.
(rmks: sounds rather unlikely, but one never knows)
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