| | The Black Sea Fleet (BSF) is an operational-strategic
association of the Navy of Russia in the Black Sea. The Russian Black Sea Fleet,
as a part of the Navy, is a means of ensuring Russia's military security in the
south. To perform the tasks the Black Sea Fleet has in its composition diesel-driven
submarines, surface ships for operations in oceanic and near-sea areas, naval
missile-carrying aviation, anti-submarine and fighter aviation, units of coastal
troops. Currently, the main tasks of Russian Black Sea Fleet are as follows:
- Protection of the economic zone and areas of productive activities, suppression
of illegal productive activities;
- ensuring safety of navigation;
- implementation
of foreign policy actions of the Government in economically important areas of
the oceans (visits, routine entries, joint exercises, actions as a part of peacekeeping
forces, etc.) | |
