Moscow, May 17 -- Flexing its military muscles, the Russian Navy conducted tactical drills in the Baltic Sea, with anti-submarine ships from its Baltic Fleet partaking in search and destroy exercises. The drills were part of a broader effort to enhance the fleet's readiness in coastal defence and near-sea operations.

"The crews of the small anti-submarine ships (MPK) Zelenodolsk and Kazanets of the Baltic Fleet conducted a tactical exercise in the marine combat training grounds in the Baltic Sea to search for and destroy submarines of a simulated enemy with the simulated use of anti-submarine weapons systems," the fleet said, according to Russia's state-owned-media, RIA Novosti.

The exercise featured coordinated submarine-hunting manoeuvr...