NIZHNY NOVGOROD. April 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Officers of the Kirov region anti-mafia police department have seized nine pieces of aircraft armament in the Kirov aircraft technical college, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry main department in the Volga federal district told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
Policemen exposed eight 23mm aircraft cannons and a 12.7mm aircraft machine-gun at the written-off hardware storage room. No documents for the storage of armament were available.
The college administration said that a department where cadets studied aircraft equipment existed in the educational establishment from 1959 to 1992. After the department was disbanded, the armament was locked in the storage room.
The armament was sent for expert examination. An additional check is underway at the college.