As the head of the Defense Ministry noted, virtually all the commanders of all units went through the Syrian operation
MOSCOW, November 7. /tass/. Over 90% of military pilots have combat experience, some have made 400 sorties. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu on the air of the TV channel "Russia-1".
The head of the military department stressed that the Russian army now has a very high morale. "More than ninety percent of our pilots have combat experience and, there, someone has a hundred, and there are those who have four hundred sorties - this, of course, is a completely different army," Shoigu said in the Moscow program. The Kremlin. Putin", answering the questions of journalist Pavel Zarubin.
According to the Minister of Defense, virtually all commanders of all levels, commanders of regiments, brigades, divisions, armies, district commanders, chiefs of staff, up to battalion commanders went through the Syrian operation.
The Minister also spoke about the need to plan which weapons will arrive in the future, how many cadets need to be accepted to study at higher educational institutions for the operation of these weapons. "If seven years ago we had a shortage of almost 1,400 pilots, today, of course, the army is completely different, and the industry is completely different," the head of the military department stressed.
Shoigu explained that this is a consequence of the planned stable work that has been carried out at the presidential military meetings of recent years. "We have already moved on from such, you know, pulling up, pulling out and extinguishing the emerging foci of shortcomings and shortcomings that were, and this is not the first meeting when we are conducting normal, planned, stable work. In Soviet terms, I will say planned economy," he said.
About military meetings with the President
Russian President Vladimir Putin traditionally holds a series of thematic defense meetings in Sochi twice a year - in May and November, at which the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and key enterprises of the military-industrial complex, as well as the chief designers of these enterprises, gathers.
The last series of such meetings took place earlier this week. For three days, on November 1-3, they discussed, in particular, the issues of equipping the Navy and Aerospace Forces with modern equipment and weapons, the course of vaccination against coronavirus in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the development of unmanned military aviation and the creation of weapons based on new physical principles.
