The drills involve over 1,000 pieces of armament, military and special
hardware.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 2. /TASS/. About 3,000 troops have been alerted in military units in Crimea and the North Caucasus in a sudden combat readiness check, the press office of Russia’s Southern Military District told TASS on Thursday.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 2. /TASS/. About 3,000 troops have been alerted in military units in Crimea and the North Caucasus in a sudden combat readiness check, the press office of Russia’s Southern Military District told TASS on Thursday.
"Pursuant
to a decision by Southern Military District Commander Colonel-General Alexander
Dvornikov, military units and formations stationed in Karachay-Cherkessia, the
Chechen Republic, Dagestan and Crimea have been alerted in a sudden combat readiness
check today," the press office said in a statement.
The drills involve about 3,000 troops and over 1,000 pieces of armament, military and special hardware, including T-72B3 tanks, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, the press office said.
The troops
alerted in the snap check are making marches together with their organic
armament to training ranges and will repel a notional enemy’s attack on their
way to the designated areas.
Upon their
arrival at training ranges, the servicemen will practice tactical moves as part
of military units and hold firing exercises, using small arms and grenade
launchers, and also the organic armament of tanks and fighting vehicles.
"Special
attention during the snap check will be paid to assessing the work of
commanders and headquarters to organize troops’ comprehensive and qualitative
command and control, interaction and communications between units," the
press office said.
Source: ITAR-TASS 02-03-2017
