MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax) - Over a thousand troops from Black Sea Fleet missile and artillery units and formations are involved in a boot camp at the combined-arms training grounds in Crimea and Krasnodar territory, the fleet's headquarters said on Tuesday.
"The troops are drilling artillery-fire control with over 200 units of military and special equipment including Grad multiple rocket launchers, the 122-mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, D-30 and 2S9 (Nona-S), and the Sani and Podnos mortar launchers," the fleet said in a statement obtained by Interfax.
The artillery troops are practicing cohesion of reconnaissance and fire units and the use of artillery weapons in paratrooper and amphibious landings, it said.
"The boot camp will culminate in a tactical opposing-force exercise between the Black Sea Fleet's separate coastal defense brigade and separate naval infantry brigade, with an artillery live-fire drill, Il-76 personnel airdrops, and the landing of a BTR-82A carrier with a large amphibious force from large landing ships to seize a shore."
The exercise is being held in accordance with the fleet's combat training plan, the headquarters said.