The power of the Russian Baltic is expanding and growing stronger. A quarter of a thousand graduates from the Russian Ministry of Defense have joined the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad region, which can completely cover its needs for staffing primary officer positions, Baltnews writes with reference to the Russian defense department.
As reported, a good half of the newly minted officers graduated from naval institutes and is already preparing to take positions in ship formations and parts of the fleet.
“About 50% of young officers are graduates of naval institutes in the specialties of navigators, miners, gunners, missilemen, signalmen. They will take the positions of seafarers in ship formations and units. About 100 more lieutenants are specialists in the field of medical and logistics services, repair and operation of armored vehicles and weapons, organization of military communications, air defense, protection of state secrets, physical training and many others”.
As Vice Admiral Viktor Luina said, over the past few years, an increasing number of warships of the fleet have taken on tasks not only in the Baltic area, but also in the far sea zone. In addition, the fleet is regularly replenished with modernized equipment, and the naval infrastructure itself is currently undergoing an active phase of development.
The day before, young officers arrived at a training camp to pass tests and consolidate the necessary skills. Large-scale planned exercises were also held there to repel a simulated enemy attack from the sea, during which the marines managed to work out in detail the actions of antiamphibious defense.
Recall that the Kaliningrad region is fraught with great danger for the North Atlantic Alliance – the region, as numerous experts say, the enclave can be compared to an “unsinkable Russian aircraft carrier” – a section of Russian territory is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, which are part of the military bloc, which quite allows Moscow to deploy forces on the northern flank NATO.
Today, a dense air defense system has been created on the territory of the region, missile ships, submarines, naval aviation, a tank regiment are deployed, powerful missile brigades, as well as strike aviation regiments are concentrated.
A powerful military base gives the Russian army the ability to repel possible attempts by Washington to block access to the Baltic waters and significantly narrows the field for maneuver of the North Atlantic Alliance in the Baltic lands and Polish territories.
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