TSAMTO, December 27. The units of the military air defense celebrated the 106th anniversary of its formation on December 26.
Military formations of the military air defense are designed to cover groups of troops and objects of the military rear, important infrastructure of the state.
During the 2021 academic year, more than 90 tactical exercises with live firing with formations, military units and units of military air defense were conducted at the Kapustin Yar, Yeisk, Ashuluk and Telemba ranges.
During the exercises, the main efforts were focused on performing practical firing tasks, during which over 600 anti–aircraft guided missiles, tens of thousands of anti-aircraft artillery ammunition were spent, and over 600 targets simulating the entire range of air attack weapons, including unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles, were used to create a target environment.
This year, the air defense forces traditionally took part in the joint strategic exercise "West-2021". During the exercises, the air defense forces carried out combat training tasks at eight training grounds of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. In total, the units of the military air defense conducted more than 90 practical tasks of shooting at air targets and worked out more than 40 basic standards for combat training. The grouping of the air defense forces of the Western Military District repelled the blows of the enemy's air attack, while more than 80 anti-aircraft guided missiles and more than 10 thousand anti-aircraft artillery ammunition were spent.
According to the results of inspections of military air defense units, more than 30 military formations confirmed the honorary title of "shock".
In the course of tactical exercises, which are conducted in an environment as close as possible to the real one, issues of countering UAVs are necessarily worked out. New methods of managing units, firepower and personnel are being introduced, new methods and techniques of actions of formations, military units and units for reconnaissance and fire destruction of complexes with UAVs are being improved. The experience of combat operations in the Syrian Arab Republic is integrated into the basis of the concept of performing combat training tasks, as the most relevant and corresponding to the new realities of modern wars with the use of drones.
The military air defense forces are armed with modern anti-aircraft missile systems and complexes S-300V4, "Buk-MZ", "Tor-M2" and "Tor-M2DT", portable anti-aircraft missile systems "Willow", radar stations "Niobium-SV", automation kits "Polyana-D4M1", "Barnaul-T" and other weapons.
The training of military air defense specialists takes place at the Military Academy of Military Air Defense named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M.Vasilevsky (Smolensk) and Combat Training Centers stationed in Yeysk, Orenburg and at the Kapustin-Yar training ground, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.