Exercises with a massive missile strike by Iskander complexes and Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) will be held this week in the Astrakhan region, the generals and officers of the central military command will take part in the training camp, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, EDNews.net reports citing BulgarianMilitary.com.
“At the training ground in the Astrakhan region, exercises will be conducted with units of missile forces and artillery to deliver a massive missile strike with the Iskander complex, as well as rockets from multiple launch rocket systems of the Tornado-S MLRS,” the statement said.
The exercises will be held as part of an operational special meeting, where the experience of using and operating modern artillery weapons is studied.
“Generals and officers of the central bodies of military command, chiefs of missile forces and artillery of military districts and formations, commanders of missile and rocket artillery formations, chiefs of training centers, and also take part in the training camp under the leadership of the Chief of the Missile Forces and Artillery of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mikhail Matveyevsky. specialists from the leading research organizations of the Ministry of Defense, the management and professorial staff of the Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy,” the military department said.
“Within the framework of the planned camp gathering of the missile units of the army corps, the Iskander operational-tactical missile systems were trained to launch conventional missile attacks,” Interfax quoted Martov as saying.
Martov said that after starting the equipment for the launching sites, the missile systems attacked the imitations of the enemy’s defended objects, command posts and airfields.
In addition, during the training, actions were worked out in conditions of radiation and chemical contamination of the area.