Units of the “new type” of the Ussuriysk Separate Guards Airborne Assault Formation of the Airborne Forces, as part of the confirmation of the skills acquired during the winter training period, went to the training grounds of the Primorsky Territory. This was announced on Monday, April 12, by the Department of Information and Mass Communications under the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The ministry said in a statement that these checks were carried out by a commission of the General Staff in the Primorsky Territory.
Air assault battalions together with anti-aircraft missile, engineer-sapper, flamethrower, artillery and sniper units, as well as subdivisions of electronic warfare, drones, technical, logistics and medical support, writes REN TV…
The military is practicing landing without using a parachute with the capture of a conditional command post of the enemy, after which they will have to capture an advantageous line and create conditions for the subsequent offensive of the main forces.
Then, units on standard equipment will conduct a maneuver as part of the development of capturing an advantageous line, the execution of firing from small arms.
It is noted that more than 500 military personnel, about 150 units of military equipment, two attack helicopters and five combat helicopters are involved in the exercises.
Earlier, on April 10, grenade launchers of the combined arms army of the Western Military District, within the framework of test firing, completed the implementation of the standards that were carried out in the Leningrad region.
In total, about 200 military personnel were involved in the exercises.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/exercises-for-new-type-units-started-in-primorye/
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