Russian Navy Northern Fleet Receives a New K-300P Bastion-P Coastal Missile System.

The unit will perform the first live firing at sea targets set in the ranges of combat training in the Barents Sea. The unit was previously equipped with 4K51 Frontier (SS-N-2C Styx) and P-35B Redoubt (SSC-1B Sepal).

Bastion-P was accepted for service in 2010. Three battalions of Bastion-P went to service with the 11th independent missile and artillery brigade (Black Sea fleet) located near Anapa. Every battalion includes four SPL, four TL, MCP and technical support systems. The unit can be complemented with target designation vehicle equipped with Monolith-B radar.

Following Crimea's integration into Russia, one Bastion-P battalion of the 11th brigade was transferred to the vicinity of Sevastopol. On September 9, 2014 it participated in drills, firing at several sea targets located at 90 km range. According to Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), all targets were destroyed. Previously, Vietnam and Syria received, respectively, one and two batallions of Bastion-P CMMS in export modification.

The mobile coastal missile system "Bastion" with anti-ship missile "Yakhont" is designed to engage surface ships of different classes and types (convoys, surface combatants and aircraft carrier battle groups) under intense fire and electronic countermeasures . Its main objective are the protection of the coast stretching over 600 km from enemy amphibious operations.

The Yakhont missile has a range of 300 kilometers, the capacity to carry a 200-kilogram warhead and the unique ability of being able to cruise a few meters above the water surface, making it difficult to detect and intercept.