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WATCH Russian airborne troops make nighttime assault touchdown at Russian-Belarusian battle video games

Posted By Russian Opinion. Under RUSSIA  Tags: airborne, assault, Games, landing, nighttime, Russian, RussianBelarusian, troops, watch  

Russia’s airborne forces have practiced touchdown in full darkness whereas utilizing state-of-the-art night time imaginative and prescient gear for the primary time of their historical past. The coaching was a part of the large Zapad-2021 drills.

Some 600 Russian paratroopers have been airdropped from a number of Il-76MD-90A navy transport plane at an altitude between 600 and 1,000 meters on Friday night time, the Russian Protection Ministry stated in an announcement. The troops needed to depend on night time imaginative and prescient gear throughout their coaching mission as a result of they have been descending in full darkness and “unfavorable climate situations,” the ministry added. 

Footage launched by the Russian Protection Ministry reveals the paratroopers boarding the navy plane with their heavy gear earlier than being airdropped into the darkness. The paratroopers can then be seen participating the simulated enemy proper after landfall. Some elements of the video have been recorded utilizing infrared and night time imaginative and prescient cameras. 

The paratroopers, who have been airdropped along with 9 items of heavy gear to a coaching space in Russia’s northwestern Pskov area, needed to seize an airfield of a simulated enemy and maintain it till the arrival of different forces. After that, they marched 100 kilometers to a different coaching space the place they destroyed simulated enemy targets, captured territory and had cell protection and state border protection drills, the ministry’s assertion stated. 

The Zapad-2021 drills – enormous battle video games spanning half the width of Europe – started on Friday. The drills that primarily contain Russian and Belarusian troops are held throughout 14 separate coaching grounds from the Baltic Sea to Central Russian cities like Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod.The drills are held each two years to check the extent of fight readiness of Russian and Belarusian troops to defend the Union State, which binds the 2 nations.

The drills contain a complete of 200,000 troopers over 80 plane and as much as 760 heavy navy gear items, together with 290 tanks in addition to 15 warships, the Russian Protection Ministry stated in an announcement on Saturday. 

Nonetheless, Moscow’s navy commanders insist that whereas the drill includes giant numbers of squadrons and navy , the quantity of troops concerned in anyone set of workouts doesn’t exceed 6,400, in keeping with necessities below worldwide regulation.

Troops from another nations, together with India and Mongolia in addition to former Soviet republics like Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are additionally participating within the drills. Some 2,000 troopers from exterior the union of Russia and Belarus are concerned within the train, the Russian ministry stated.

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Servicemen of the Belarusian army at the opening ceremony of the strategic exercises 'West-2021' at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus. © Sputnik / Viktor Tolochko
Russian & Belarusian troops follow combating side-by-side in enormous war-games, with rockets & tanks deployed throughout Jap Europe

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