MOSCOW, January 12 (AVN) - Russian Air Force commanders suggested that Air Force and Air Defence detachments of the Privolzhsky and Uralsky military districts should be re-organised into an army, Russian Air Force Commander Anatoly Kornukov stated.
It is planned to organise air and air defence divisions in the detachment with headquarters in Samara and Yekaterinburg, he added.
Besides in the near future the combat set of the federal troops in the North Caucasus is to be changed, the Military News Agency learned.
The number of the detachments of permanent combat readiness is to be increased and the number of men in the already existing units is to be the same as in the war time.