Ocean 83

" Ocean-83 " - the naval maneuvers of the Navy of the USSR, held in September 1983. They became the largest in terms of the number of civil courts involved.

Content

1 Background
2 Engaged forces and individual tasks of maneuvers
3 Geographical coverage
4 Sources

Background

In April and May 1983, the US Pacific Fleet , during major maneuvers, fulfilling the plan of the exercises, acted in such a way as to find holes in Soviet intelligence and early warning of a possible US attack in the Pacific Ocean . The Americans, among other things, simulated attacks on Soviet atomic submarines . The Ocean 83 and ground exercises, which soon followed, were the Kremlin’s response. In September of the same year, the next phase of the operation of the NES also began ^[1] .

The forces involved and the individual tasks of maneuvers

The maneuvers involved more than 40 surface ships and a large number of submarines. During the maneuvers, air strikes against the carrier targets of a conditional enemy, as well as attacks on naval convoys of the enemy, were practiced. The largest number of Soviet merchant ships in the history of Soviet naval exercises took part in these maneuvers - about 40. The participation of merchant ships was due to the fact that in addition to testing attacks on convoys of the conditional enemy, the Soviet Navy carried out the same testing protection of convoys of Soviet civil courts against attacks by the air forces and naval forces of the capitalist countries ^[2] .

Geographic coverage

“Ocean-83” became the first after the “ Ocean-75 ” maneuvers of the Soviet Navy, the place of action of which was the whole world ocean. The development of attacks on approaching Soviet merchant ships of conditional enemy carrier groups deployed in the Norwegian Sea , the North Atlantic , the Baltic and the Mediterranean Sea , the Indian Ocean , the South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific Ocean ^[3] .

The maneuvers also involved a significant number of naval aircraft from airfields located in Cuba , Ethiopia , Libya , Syria , Vietnam , and from the territory of the Soviet Union ^[2] .

Sources

↑ Zubok, Vladislav M. Old Guard's Exit, 1980-1987 // A failed empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev . - Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 .-- P. 272-273. - 467 p. - (The new Cold War history). - ISBN 978-0-8078-3098-7 .
↑ ¹ ² Polmar, Norman. The Okean Exercises // The Naval Institute guide to the Soviet Navy ( United States ) / United States Naval Institute. - 5th ed .. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991 .-- P. 40-41. - 492 p. - ISBN 0-8702-1241-9 .
↑ Center for Naval Analyses. The Soviet and other communist navies: the view from the mid 1980s (English) / Preface by James L. George. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1986. - P. 220. - 436 p. - ISBN 0-8702-1670-8 .

[1] Zubok, Vladislav M. Old Guard's Exit, 1980-1987 // A failed empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev . - Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 .-- P. 272-273. - 467 p. - (The new Cold War history). - ISBN 978-0-8078-3098-7 .

[Polmar-2] ¹ ² Polmar, Norman. The Okean Exercises // The Naval Institute guide to the Soviet Navy ( United States ) / United States Naval Institute. - 5th ed .. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991 .-- P. 40-41. - 492 p. - ISBN 0-8702-1241-9 .

[3] Center for Naval Analyses. The Soviet and other communist navies: the view from the mid 1980s (English) / Preface by James L. George. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1986. - P. 220. - 436 p. - ISBN 0-8702-1670-8 .