More than ten crews of the Su-30SM and Su-30SM2 multirole fighters of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation practiced bombing and artillery strikes against targets in the east of the Kaliningrad region during the exercises. This was reported by the press service of the fleet, reports TASS.

It is noted that strikes against full-size targets, which imitated airfields, manpower and equipment of a mock enemy, were carried out using OFAB-250-270 high-explosive fragmentation bombs and shells from 30-mm cannons at altitudes from 600 to 900 meters.

The press service added that the crews of the aircraft worked out strikes against ground targets day and night. The actions of the pilots were recorded by an objective control complex, the elements of which are installed on the ground and on aircraft.

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In November 2022, the Russian Aerospace Forces received a batch of Su-30SM2 multirole fighters and Yak-130 combat training aircraft. The planes were manufactured and handed over to the Irkutsk Aviation Plant.

In February 2022, Izvestia, citing sources in the military department, wrote that Su-30SM2 fighters would be able to control the S-70 Okhotnik incorporeal aircraft.