The drills involve
about 500 personnel of a coastal defense large unit from the Black Sea Fleet’s
army corps and over 70 items of military hardware, according to the Fleet’s
press office.
SEVASTOPOL, July 8.
/TASS/. The troops of the Black Sea Fleet’s army corps will seize and defend a
bridgehead during drills on the Crimean coast, the Fleet’s press office
reported on Wednesday.
"Force-on-force
battalion-level tactical drills with units of the Black Sea Fleet’s army corps
began at training ranges of the Crimean Peninsula. The personnel of units from
a coastal defense large formation will practice measures in a constantly
changing maneuverable battle to accomplish firing, tactical, engineering and
special training assignments on the terrain in an environment close to real
warfare," the press office said in a statement.
"The troops will
alternately practice the assignments of conducting an offensive, holding
defense and switching to a counter-offensive," the statement says.
As the Black Sea
Fleet specified for TASS, the troops involved in the drills will practice
operations to seize and defend a bridgehead on the coast.
The troops will
accomplish a live-fire exercise, firing all types of small arms, grenade
launchers and combat vehicles’ guns against the targets that are simulating a
notional enemy’s forces. The personnel will actively employ drones to adjust
artillery fire and conduct reconnaissance, the press office said.
The drills involve
about 500 personnel of a coastal defense large unit from the Black Sea Fleet’s
army corps and over 70 items of military hardware that include T-72B3 tanks and
BTR-80 and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers.
"The troops are
currently performing a march from their permanent base to the training range,
during which they will practice scenario injects to counter a notional enemy’s
subversive and reconnaissance groups, repel air strikes and overcome terrain
sections notionally contaminated with chemical agents," the press office
said.
Source: ITAR-TASS
08-07-2020
