The drills involved
over 500 personnel.
KALININGRAD, April 6.
/TASS/. Missile and artillery personnel of the Baltic Fleet’s army corps
accomplished over 200 various fire missions during field exercises at practice
ranges in the Kaliningrad Region, the Fleet’s press office reported on Monday.
"The combat
training measures at several practice ranges in the Kaliningrad Region involved
over 200 items of combat hardware of the army corps’ artillery and missile
units, and also the Fleet’s marine infantry formations," the press office
said in a statement.
The drills involved
over 500 personnel, the press office specified.
As part of the field
exercises that lasted a month, the artillery and missile troops accomplished
over 200 various fire missions, employing Grad multiple launch rocket systems,
Giatsint large-caliber guns, Msta-S, Akatsiya, Gvozdika, Pion and Nona
self-propelled artillery systems, Podnos mortars and other armament, the
statement says.
Apart from the
live-fire, the crews and combat teams practiced measures while on the march and
accomplished procedures within the required time limits to deploy weapon
systems and assume firing positions, equip and camouflage them, according to
the statement.
"At various
stages of the field exercises, the artillery and missile units practiced their
cohesion, sharpened the personnel’s combat skills and the commanders’ skills of
fire control in a training battle during defense and in an offensive," the
Fleet’s press office specified.
Source: ITAR-TASS
06-04-2020
