Russia: new winter training season kicks off in Southern Military District
Missile troops and artillery, air defense units, NBC defense troops, signal troops and engineer troops, will be engaged in field training under supervision of military command and control units of the Southern Military District. In total it is planned to carry out over 300 tactical exercises (joint, bilateral and with other forces) during the 2019 training year. Troops will be involved in over 3,000 live-fire drills at the training grounds. Drivers will perform more than 5,500 test and control exercises for driving combat vehicles.
Russian paratrooper in winter training (Picture source: Russian MoD/Imgur) |