Shooting training sessions for Russian and Syrian military personnel were held on the Syrian coast. This was announced on Monday, June 7.
At the Shkaifat training ground, the Russian military is engaged in training Syrian officers, starting from working out the process of assembling and disassembling the machine gun and ending with shooting on the beach.
"The range allows you to shoot from various types of small arms. Prepared 25-meter pistol range, 100-meter shooting range for shooting from a machine gun. The area of the army tactical shooting, which is located directly behind us, then the direction for performing exercises of preparatory shooting from armored personnel carriers and IFVs and the direction for performing preparatory shooting from small arms, " said Alexey Plisov, head of the combat training department of the Russian troops in Syria.
Before the direct conduct of joint military exercises, local fishermen are given a special signal, and they leave the fishing site. Shooting events are held according to the Russian schedule: from Monday to Friday,while this day is considered a weekend in Syria.
The Syrian military has good combat experience, but they need to develop their skills to automatism, which is facilitated by joint exercises with the Russian Armed Forces (RF Armed Forces).
"We train them to do it correctly, with the least amount of ammunition, to hit the target with the first round, the first shot," said Dmitry Barar, a representative of the Russian Armed Forces group in the SAR.
So, one of the simplest exercises is considered to be an exercise with a Makarov pistol, while the loudest is working out with an armored personnel carrier. The Russian military demonstrates the principles of controlling a multi-ton vehicle.
It is noted that the best Syrian military cope with a pickup truck-SUV with a large-caliber machine gun, which is considered an indispensable weapon in a desert area, and is better known among the military contingent under the nickname "tachanka".
The day before, on June 6, Russian servicemen held a humanitarian aid action in the Syrian village of Kezelja, within the framework of which they provided food products to the residents of the settlement.
