MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The 202nd separate permanent readiness SAM brigade of the Moscow military district started a tactical exercise with live firing at the Ashuluk testing ground in the Astrakhan region on Tuesday, the district's deputy commander Lieutenant General Alexander Belousov said.
"The four-day exercise of the brigade at the Ashuluk testing ground was planned beforehand. It is supervised by chief of the district's air defense department Colonel Mikhail Krush," Belousov told Interfax-Military News Agency.
He said that "live firing of two battalions organic of the brigade will take place in the framework of the tactical exercise on September 26 and 27."
"Real launches of missiles will be made by S-300PMU and Tor SAM systems. Those air defense assets will fire at grouped aerial targets against an intensive tactical background with the use of the A-50 (Russian variant of AWACS) radar surveillance plane," Belousov added.
The 202nd brigade under command of Colonel Alexei Valov is headquartered in the town of Naro-Fominsk in the Moscow region.