ROSTOV-ON-DON. Aug 28 (Interfax) - Servicemen of Russia's Southern Military District have hit targets of the imaginary enemy in the North Caucasus using multiple-rocket launchers and self-propelled mortars and cannons, the district's press service said.
"In line with the operation's scenario, units of Uragan multiple-rocket launchers and battalions of Smerch multiple-rocket launchers with the support of powerful artillery units, including 240-mm 2S4 Tyulpan self-propelled mortars and 203-mm 2S7M Malka self-propelled cannons, delivered a simultaneous strike," the press service said in a statement.
After accomplishing the task of destroying core targets the artillery units made a counter-fire maneuver and began destroying the imaginary enemy's stronghold with concentrated fire, the statement said.
Attached units of unmanned aerial vehicles adjusted artillery fire and controlled the accuracy of strikes, it said.
It was reported earlier that units and formations of three combined arms forces, Air and Air Defense Forces armies, the Black Sea Fleet, and the Caspian Flotilla are taking part in a command post exercise in Russia's Southern Military District which began on Monday.
Twelve army, navy, and aviation ranges in the Rostov, Volgograd, and Astrakhan regions, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, and Crimea are hosting the exercise.
Up to 8,200 servicemen and 2,500 pieces of military hardware, including more than 100 tanks, about 30 aircraft, 60 helicopters, and up to 10 ships of the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla are taking part in practicing tactical episodes of the two-sided exercise of the Southern Military District's troops.