TASHKENT. Sept 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The Uzbek Defense Ministry has made training missile launches at air targets.
A Defense Ministry source told Interfax on Tuesday that the exercises involved missile and radar units, and were held on a training ground of the Uzbek air defense and air forces.
These were Uzbekistan's first missile launches over the 11 years of its independence. "It is a good exercise in launching missiles in the mountainous and desert terrain," the source said.
The exercises were supervised by Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Uzbek Armed Forces and Commander of the Air Defense and Air Forces Colonel Seidullah Madaminov.
The Uzbek Armed Forces are equipped with Russian-made surface- to-air missiles.