Snipers will undergo a course of special, tactical and fire training
MOSCOW, December 2. /tass/. Large-scale exercises of sniper units have begun in the Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk and Smolensk regions, the press service of the Western Military District reported on Thursday.
"Military personnel of sniper units of the combined arms army of the Western Military District have started conducting large-scale exercises as part of the training camps in the Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk and Smolensk regions. <...> More than 700 military personnel of the combined arms army of the Western Military District have been involved in the training camps," the district said.
Snipers will undergo a course of special, tactical and fire training. They will study in theory and put into practice the intelligence, control and communication complexes of the KRUS "Sagittarius-M". In addition, it is planned to prepare and disguise firing positions, study special techniques for opposing snipers of a conditional enemy, shooting at the most remote targets according to the received meteorological and ballistic data. Snipers will also work out actions in close contact with enemy patrol groups, including hand-to-hand combat and fighting with lightly armored vehicles.
During the exercises, sniper rifles SVD, SVD-M, SVD-K, as well as army large-caliber sniper rifles ASVK are used.