Baltic Fleet Tests Base Defense Against Drone Threats
Baltic Fleet mobile fire teams practiced base defense in Kaliningrad, targeting FPV drones, robotic threats and mock sabotage groups in live-fire drills.
Mobile fire teams from a Baltic Fleet security unit have practiced defending a base facility in the Kaliningrad Region against several types of threats, TASS reported, citing the fleet’s press service.
The drills took place at a combat training range, where personnel from the security unit of the Baltic Naval Base carried out a series of live-fire exercises using different types of small arms. The training targets simulated both aerial and surface threats, including unmanned and robotic systems.
One part of the exercise focused on counter-sabotage measures. Servicemen practiced responding to the appearance of underwater saboteurs in a coastal area, as well as attempts by ground-based sabotage and reconnaissance groups of a mock enemy to break into protected sites.
Mobile fire teams operating vehicles equipped with NSV Utyos heavy machine guns were involved in the firing drills. Firepoint crews using standard small arms also took part, along with visual observation posts whose personnel were armed with MP-155 smoothbore shotguns.
Unarmed FPV drones were used to represent aerial targets during the training. Fast-moving surface targets simulated unmanned boats and the mock enemy’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
According to the Baltic Fleet’s press service, the personnel confirmed their readiness to carry out base defense, counter-sabotage protection and air defense tasks in conditions where a mock enemy uses unmanned and robotic systems.