Today, the army and navy still have the opportunity to study military science at training ranges, shooting ranges, in the sky, in the seas and oceans.
The title of this note, as the veterans of the army know, was the slogan that flaunted on the parade ground of the military unit in all garrisons "indestructible and legendary." And also at its polygons. Then there were times when one could only dream of exercises in the field or at sea. There was not enough money, no fuel, no residual quantity of serviceable and combat-ready equipment for this. And soon the military maneuvers were replaced by a real war - in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in Transnistria, Tajikistan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia. You can't list everything.
Today, the army and navy, despite the ongoing anti-terrorist operations, still have the opportunity to study military science at training ranges, shooting ranges, in the sky, in the seas and oceans. Here is just a short list of tactical exercises of the last week. As soon as the tactical exercises with the dropping of troops and military equipment in the Ivanovo, Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions ended, similar exercises of the 76th Airborne Division continued in the Pskov region. There, 1,300 soldiers and officers and 17 pieces of equipment, including five BMD-2s, were parachuted from Il-76 military transport aircraft. Almost in the same days, tactical exercises were held with amphibious assault landing on the coast of the Khmelevka training ground in the Kaliningrad region, as well as the Russian-Mongolian military exercises Darkhan-3 in Buryatia. At the Kapustin Yar training ground near Astrakhan, combat firing of air defense soldiers of motorized rifle and anti-aircraft brigades of the Central Military District, or, as it is also called, the Operational Strategic Command (OSK) Center, took place. The crews of the Su-24 bombers of the Khurba airbase of the Far Eastern Association of the Air Force and Air Defense have successfully completed practical refueling in the air, and the anti-terrorist exercises of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) began in Kazakhstan, attended by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Nikolai Makarov … Off the coast of the island of Sicily, the bilateral Russian-Italian naval exercises "Ioniex-2010" have come to the end.
And some right-wing politicians continue to insist that nothing has changed in the army. Alas for them.
