The control check of the combat readiness of more than 15 thousand servicemen of the Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District during the winter training period was successfully completed. The exercises took place on the territory of the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo regions.
Tank, motorized rifle, reconnaissance, anti-aircraft missile, artillery and missile subunits performed over 4 thousand live fires and practiced repelling attacks of a simulated enemy in the daytime and at night.
In a number of exercises, more than 3 thousand units of weapons of military and special equipment of the ZVO tank association were involved, T-72B3, T-80, T-90 tanks, BMP-2, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR-80, BTR-82A armored personnel carriers , self-propelled artillery mounts “Msta-S”, towed howitzers “Msta-B”, mortars “Sani”, and other military equipment.
On April 22, combat crews of the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (ZRPK) of the Leningrad Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Western Military District (ZVO) in the Astrakhan region at the Ashuluk training ground conducted live firing on the move, which took place as part of a control check during the winter period of study.