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16 of July, 12:32

Ships of the U.S. Navy and Romania held anti-aircraft gunfire in the Black sea
General shooting anti-aircraft artillery systems in exercises in the Black sea met American Missile destroyer and Romanian Corvette, said the press service of the Sixth fleet of the U.S. Navy.
"Missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy Porter type Arleigh Burke held a joint Exercise with the Navy Corvette Romania Macellariu in the Black sea ", - is informed in the report.
"Porter entered the Black sea on the 5th of July to participate in naval exercises with NATO Breeze-2015, which ended July 13. In the teachings of the Commonwealth were involved 30 ships and support ships, as well as 1,700 soldiers "- quoted by RIA "Novosti" letter of the press service of the Sixth fleet of the U.S. Navy." in the framework of the teachings of the ships held a General maneuvers, worked the landing and capture of the ship by the special forces detachment and performed combat shooting anti-aircraft artillery systems ", - informs the press service. Teachings Breeze-2015 was launched in the Black sea on the 7th of July, they took part of the naval forces of Bulgaria, Romania, USA, Greece and Turkey ? 23 surface ships, one Turkish submarine, as well as rotorcraft and military aircraft of Bulgaria. The purpose of the exercise was to witness the dedication NATO support security in the Black sea "based on the scenario of the crisis response operations, which are aimed at strengthening the compatibility between the host country, invited countries and NATO," according to the report of the press service of the Commonwealth. In early autumn, NATO plans to hold in the Black sea, the Sea Breeze Exercises, take part, and Ukraine. The commander of an American destroyer Porter Blair guy said that " the presence of military vessels in the Black sea not only strengthens the relationship with colleagues, but also promotes overall stability in the region ". At the end of June in the Black sea the USS guiding missiles (UB) Laboon the same class Arleigh Burke participated in the General exercises with the Navy Corvette Romania Admiral Eustatiu Sebastian, in which the crews worked on skills of defense. As reported by the print edition OPINION, over the past year and a half, the intensity of military training of NATO forces at the Russian borders has increased significantly and in the conditional opponent, which were opposed by the allies during military exercises, the Russian defense Ministry sees the image of Russian troops.

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