NOTAM for Russian Navy Exercise (Training Flights and Rocket Test Firings) 10-15 November and 17-22 November 0500-2100 hrs.
Two
six-day training blocks ? In a war zone ?? Are these guys complete green-horns just getting their first sea-legs or practising for an air show ? If they don’t go live on real targets inside Syria by day two of the first block, I’d send them all to the salt mines to earn their keep.
Black Sea Fleet Tug SB-5 went into Tartus, Syria a few days ago. She towed a barge from the Black Sea. I wonder if it is target barge for the exercise?
I would have thought one bomb would sink that barge if they hit it. I wonder if it’s to assist with Kuznetzov going alongside in Tartus for some R & R, or perhaps it's just a complete red herring ?
Or showing the flag, on the way to support the Russian rebels in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine, and solidify the general status quo up there in the Black Sea?
Indeed, not forgetting Moldova.
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