MOSCOW. Sept 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The active stage of a command post exercise (CPX) involving units and formations of the Moscow military district's training center started at a joint-arms proving range near the town of Kovrov in the Vladimir region, a source in the district headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
The exercise is supervised by head of the center Major General Gennady Omelchenko. It involves up to 9,000 servicemen, including 6,000 cadets of the center.
"During the five-day CPX its participants go out in the field to work on aspects of operational and combat training of troops and control over the training center's units in an emergency period," the source said.
He stressed that "during the first stage of the exercise featured an in-depth practice in interaction between the center's command and the district's headquarters and control bodies of other law-enforcement agencies located in the region.
"On Thursday and Friday, tactics of the center's units in various types of joint-arms combat and norms in establishment of company and platoon strongpoints will be practiced at a joint-arms proving range near Kovrov," the source said.
The CPX will end with live firing by motorized rifle and tank training companies and training battalions, the source added.