MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. A hunter-killer force from Russia’s Northern Fleet is hunting down a notional enemy’s submarine during drills in the Barents Sea, the Fleet’s press office told TASS on Tuesday.

"A hunter-killer group from the Kola Flotilla of the Northern Fleet’s Combined Armed Force has deployed to the Barents Sea as part of scheduled combat training measures. The group consists of the small anti-submarine warfare ships Snezhnogorsk and Brest," the press office said in a statement.

A mine countermeasures group from the Kola Flotilla of the Northern Fleet’s Combined Armed Force consisting of the coastal minesweepers Yadrin and Solovetskaya Yunga provided for the safe departure of the hunter-killer group from its home naval base and its deployment to the Barents Sea, the press office said.

During several days, the crews of the small anti-submarine warfare ships will practice interoperability as part of a hunter-killer group and accomplish the objectives of hunting down, detecting and tracking a simulated enemy’s submarine, employing the entire array of shipborne sonars, it said.

The drills will run in a force-on-force format. The hunter-killer group will act against the crews of the Northern Fleet’s submarines. At some stages of the naval exercise, the crews of the anti-submarine warfare ships will operate in interaction with the personnel of anti-submarine aircraft and helicopters of the Northern Fleet’s Air Force and Air Defense Army, the press office reported.