Russia conducts live-fire exercises in Kaliningrad
The Baltic Fleet is conducting exercises in the Kaliningrad region with live ammunition from Grad and Uragan multiple launch systems, tanks, howitzers and other weapons.
“More than 500 military personnel and more than 70 units of military and special equipment are participating in combat training. Including BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, T-72B3M tanks, Akatsiya and Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, anti-missiles,” the fleet said. For aircraft, “Tunguska” gun systems, multiple launch rocket systems “Grad”, “Uragan” and other weapons “.
According to the headquarters of the fleet, during the tactical exercises, the soldiers of the motorized rifle regiment of the Baltic Fleet, together with attached tank and artillery units, will conduct tactical actions in defense and attack.
“Artillery batteries and attached tank units will have to carry out long-range firing, simulating artillery preparation at a distance of eight to ten kilometers.”
“The artillerymen will also conduct volleys of fire and transport column of fire, which will allow motorized riflemen to make rapid movements on the battlefield to regroup, evacuate armored vehicles, transport ammunition and conditionally evacuate the wounded,” the report says.
In the final phase of the exercises, “all units participating in the exercises, supported by aircraft and helicopters of the Navy of the Fleet, will conduct live fire from all types of small arms, grenade launchers, tank weapons and multiple combat vehicles.
“The firing of missile systems at targets that simulate larvae, wheeled vehicles, manpower, air defense and aviation systems of an imaginary enemy,” the statement said.
Also, “the criteria for the deployment of units, tactical, engineering and special training, for the work of units in defense and offense in the closest possible combat conditions will be fulfilled,” the fleet reported.
