<p>Moscow: Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber planes flew over the Barents and Norwegian seas as part of a major naval exercise, the state-run <em>RIA</em> news agency quoted the defence ministry as saying on Wednesday.</p><p>It said the flights were part of the "Ocean-2024" drills that Russia launched a day earlier.</p><p>The exercises, the biggest since the Soviet era, will involve more than 90,000 servicemen, over 400 vessels and 125 aircraft and will run until September 16 across a vast area including parts of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Mediterranean, Baltic and Caspian seas. </p>
<p>Moscow: Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber planes flew over the Barents and Norwegian seas as part of a major naval exercise, the state-run <em>RIA</em> news agency quoted the defence ministry as saying on Wednesday.</p><p>It said the flights were part of the "Ocean-2024" drills that Russia launched a day earlier.</p><p>The exercises, the biggest since the Soviet era, will involve more than 90,000 servicemen, over 400 vessels and 125 aircraft and will run until September 16 across a vast area including parts of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Mediterranean, Baltic and Caspian seas. </p>