The troops used
unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems, artillery and tank units.
BLAGOVESHCHENSK,
April 16. /TASS/. Troops in Russia’s Eastern Military District employed a new
tactic to fight illegal armed formations during drills, the District’s press
office reported on Tuesday.
"A special
tactical exercise was held at the Tryokhrechye practice range for the personnel
of the Eastern Military District’s army stationed in the Amur Region to train
units in the new tactics of fighting illegal armed formations, using the
experience of present-day armed conflicts," the press office said in a
statement.
During the week, a
motorized infantry division stationed in the Jewish Autonomous Region were
deployed to an unfamiliar practice range in the Amur Region where they searched
for and blocked about 300 notional terrorists who employed the armor and modern
firearms, the statement says.
"The troops
maximally used unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems, artillery
and tank units. The attempts by some groups of the illegal armed formations to
break through the sealed-off area at night were halted by the tanks’ barrage
fire and by a new method where artillery set up blinding lines," the press
office said.
As the Eastern
Military District told TASS, under this method, artillery teams shell the
hostile area with special illuminating projectiles. This allows troops to see
the area well and simultaneously demoralize the enemy by impairing its night
vision devices.
The drills involved
more than 1,000 troops and about 250 items of military hardware that included
Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles, Akatsiya 152mm self-propelled howitzers and
Grad multiple launch rocket systems that went into service in the Eastern
Military District this year, as well as Sani mortars, T-72B tanks and BMP-2
infantry fighting vehicles.
Source: ITAR-TASS
16-04-2019
