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Northern Fleet Practices Rescuing Crews From Submerged Submarine

July 12 2017

Russia

The Russian Northern Fleet says it has successfully completed a training mission aimed at rescuing a simulated sub in distress, reports Interfax-AVN (Russia).

The exercise took place at a combat training range in the Kola Bay, said a fleet spokesman on Tuesday.

The AS-34 submersible was launched from the Grigory Titov rescue ship. The submersible dived, located the stricken sub and landed on the coaming of the mock boat, the spokesman said.

During the mission, the crew of...

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