“The main task during the event was to improve the skills of performing the assigned tasks by the crews of the MiG-31BM fighters when on combat duty for air defense in the regions of the Far North,” the Ministry of Defense said.

In October, two Tu-95MS missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces completed a scheduled 12-hour flight over the neutral waters of the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.