MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax-AVN) - The upcoming combat training officers meeting will focus on preparing and conducting company- and battalion-size tactical exercise, involving live fire, Colonel General Alexander Skorodumov, chief of the Russian Armed Forces Central Combat Training Directorate, told Interfax- Military News Agency on Tuesday.
"Nowadays there are certain unit, and even formation commanders in the Russian Armed Forces, who for objective reasons do not have practical skills in organizing and conducting tactical training exercises, involving live fire. In the course of the meeting, which sees participation of combat training officers of armed services, combat branches, military districts, and combined-arms-and-services armies, we will attempt to refine primarily the very procedure of organizing and undertaking tactical training exercises," Skorodumov said.
He said that in the course of the three-day meeting the participants would be shown documents, worked out by the General Staff and the Land Forces Command, which regulate combat training in the Armed Forces.
"For instance, participants in the meeting will familiarize themselves with requirements of the Russian Defense Ministry to be met during summer period test," the general emphasized.
Skorodumov said that the meeting envisions conducting a number of practical demonstration exercises on tactical and fire training, and driving tanks, IFVs, and APCs.
"A number of lessons will be devoted to tactics of mobile task forces in emergency, given the experience, acquired in the course of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus," Skorodumov pointed out.
The meeting of combat training officers will be held at the training center of an independent motor rifle brigade of the Leningrad Military District from Wednesday to Friday.