MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax) - Troops from a missile division of the Eastern Military District (EMD) are heading to a specialized test and training range in the Astrakhan region where they will be trained to operate the Iskander-M ballistic missile system, SMD spokesman Col. Alexander Gordeyev told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.
"This is already the second EMD missile division to be armed with Iskander-M systems," he said
"The personnel will spend about half a year learning the rules of operating and using the system under specialists' supervision, and will conduct a tactical missile-firing exercise in the final stage," he said.