MURMANSK, March 15. /TASS/. The latest missile frigate Admiral Kasatonov has transited the English Channel heading for the Atlantic Ocean in its long-distance deployment, the Northern Fleet’s press office reported on Wednesday.
"The Northern Fleet’s frigate Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov has passed through the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel. The Russian naval ship will subsequently make a transit through the strait zone to get into the North Sea and then into the Northeastern Atlantic waters where it will carry out a series of shipborne drills," the press office said in a statement.
The Admiral Kasatonov frigate operated in the Mediterranean waters from February 2022. The warship’s crew practiced all the assigned missions within the Russian Navy’s standing task force. In addition to the objectives of their long-distance deployment, the naval sailors practiced dozens of shipborne air defense and anti-submarine warfare drills. Over the period of its deployment in distant waters that began on January 23, 2022, the frigate Admiral Kasatonov has covered a distance of more than 65,000 nautical miles, the press office said.
The Project 22350 lead and first serial-built frigates Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov and Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov are operating within a formation of the Northern Fleet’s missile ships. Frigates of this Project carry Kalibr-NK and/or Oniks cruise missile systems as their basic strike weapons and will eventually be armed with Tsirkon hypersonic missiles.