The Northern fleet's birthday. Today he is 283 years. Birthday of the Northern fleet, the crew of the nuclear submarine "Smolensk" was met with exercises in the Barents sea.

Conditional emergency situations liquidated a few minutes. Autonomous navigation in a submarine can be compared with the flight of man into space. For several months the crew hears only the noise of the screws sees the partitions of the compartments. Not to surface the boat more than 100 days and is able to attack the enemy right out of the water.

The commander of the combined arms army of the southern military district of the armed forces of the Russian Federation Mikhail Sushko "Power severe, we are confident that the North direction is covered with a protective shield".

How can you attack the forces of the Northern fleet recently saw students of the Academy of the General staff during the exercise "Trout in 2016." The observation deck was the nuclear cruiser "Peter the Great". Today, the Northern fleet is a powerful nuclear missile foothold of Russia in the Arctic region. Armed with the largest military-sea connections is Russia's only heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov".

283-anniversary of Northern fleet meets the raising of the flag on all ships. Some crews will do it away from home. Long hikes has not been canceled.
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