Originally made by the Soviet Union, this propaganda film was re-released by the American C.I.A. complete with English narration. It features wargames known as Ocean-70 performed by the Soviet fleet. The exercise took place between 14th April and 5th of May 1970. It was conducted under the command of Admiral Gorshkov, commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy. Depicted are various types of the contemporary Soviet surface navy materiel, Soviet Navy airforce and air reconnaissance, Soviet Marines and their amphibious assault vehicles, and the first generation of the Soviet navy nuclear and non-nuclear submarines – November, Echo and Foxtrot types. The latest (commissioned 1968-1970) Soviet navy nuclear submarines do not appear in this movie.The classified part of this exercise involved the search for the sunken K-8 submarine, which foundered in the bay of Biscay on April 12th 1970 (not portrayed, understandably).
Here are some highlights:
0:52 Early version of a Tu-22, with a refueling boom (early air intakes configuration)
2:01 to 2:09 Admiral Gorshkov
2:30 to 2:32 Admiral Lobov h
2:35 Project 627 “Kit” or NATO “November” nuclear submarine
2:46 one of the early ASM and SLBM-carrying “Echo-1” or Project 679 nuclear submarines
5:06 Admiral Mikhailin
5:57 to 6:40 Myasishev M-4 (“Molot” or “Hammer”) NATO ID”Bison”
6:11 View towards an M-4-based tanker, during inflight refueling
6:54 a Tu-142 formation – NATO ID “Bear F/J”
7:00 M-4, again, viewed from a Tu-14
27:29 Admiral Sysoev
8:00 Moskva-class “Leningrad” Helicopter and ASM Carrier
8:50 to 9:08 Kamov Ka-25 (NATO ID “Hormone”) antisubmarine warfare helicopters
12:06 to 12:19 AA ship artillery mount, at 12:16 showing an airplane identification diagram on the mount’s wall by the gunner’s side13:07 KS-1 “Raduga” (NATO ID “Kennel”) nuclear-ready anti-ship-missile based on MiG-15
13:30 to 13:47 Hull breach exercise, including NBC-suit-wearing crew cleaning the deck of the simulated “radioactive fallout”
15:53 onwards – Soviet Marine corps “capture the flag” exercise on the Rybachy peninsula
15:54 BTR-60 Armored Personnel Carrier
16:00 – 16:10 BMD-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle of the Soviet Marines Corps
16:12 T-54-based Tracked Military tractor, a Common Chassis Platform for most Soviet Army tracked exploration and winterized tracked vehicles
16:28 Tu-16 (“Badger”) or Yak-28 (“Brewer”) flying in formation
17:55 onwards – BMD-1
18:08 A T-54 / T-55 tank, accompanied by a couple of BMD-1
18:32 Marshal Grechko
19:14 Project 641 “Foxtrot” diesel attack submarine followed, again, by 627/”November” at 19:21
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