Structure and personnel news

Snipers will undergo a course of special, tactical and fire training 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.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta publishes Law No. 388-FZ, which increases the age limit for military service and slightly changes the procedure for concluding a new contract with military leaders.

According to this document, the president of the country has the right to decide for how long a senior officer who has reached the maximum age limit should be left in the ranks.

In the new academic year, which started in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on December 1, the main priority will be to further increase the level of professional training of military personnel, according to the Ministry of Defense.

The formation of a new airborne assault regiment in Crimea will be completed in December, the Russian military department reported. "In December of this year, the formation of the third airborne assault regiment of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne Assault Mountain Unit will be completed," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement issued on Wednesday.

Several formations capable of conducting large-scale network-centric operations have been created in the Russian Armed Forces, informed sources told RIA Novosti.

The first full-time unit in the Russian Armed Forces equipped with Terminator tank support vehicles (BMPT) has been formed in the Central Military District (CVO), the commander of the CVO troops Alexander Lapin told reporters.

In addition, the pages of the publication reveal the life path of 22 cosmonauts who received military ranks of senior officers

The multi-volume scientific work "Senior Officers of a Great Country" was presented as part of the second round of the competition for the State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov. The work was presented on Wednesday by Sergey Botsvin, Deputy Head of the Main Personnel Department of the Russian Defense Ministry.

The head of the military police Department in the republic, Alexander Fomenko, said that the personnel celebrate the memorable date on combat duty without holding festive events

The units of the military police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation celebrate a professional holiday - 10 years since its formation. The Russian military police in Syria is celebrating a memorable date on combat duty without holding festive events, the head of the military police department in the republic, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Alexander Fomenko, told TASS on Wednesday.

In the new academic year, the Novorossiysk Naval Base (NWMB) of the Black Sea Fleet launched a training cycle for submarine crews at the Afalina training complex (UTK) for rescue and light diving training.

The Minister of Defense noted that the preparatory activities for the new academic year, which started in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on December 1, have been fully implemented

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has set a task for the command staff of the Armed Forces to ensure a high rate of combat training in the troops.

During combat training, modern aircraft and aviation weapons were actively mastered, which greatly contributed to the growth of qualification and professional training of specialists, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted.

The anti-covid measures taken will protect Russian cosmonauts from the new strain of the Omicron coronavirus, the Cosmonaut Training Center told Interfax on Wednesday.

The first full-time unit in the Russian army equipped with Terminator tank support vehicles (BMPT) appeared in the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, commander of the Central Military District, said, RIA Novosti writes.

The Main Directorate of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on November 28 celebrated 92 years since its formation. On this day in 1929, the post of Chief of Armaments of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established and his apparatus, the Red Army Armament Service, was created.

The Board of Directors of PJSC Irkut Corporation prematurely terminated the powers of the current CEO Ravil Khakimov and elected Andrei Boginsky instead.

A government commission has considered an initiative allowing test pilots to be awarded a rank one star higher than their position. Thus, pilots-lieutenant colonels with special merits will be able to become colonels. The current rules allow you to give "extra" stars to officers only up to and including the rank of major.

The founder of the SpaceX space company, Elon Musk, believes that difficulties with the production of Raptor rocket engines can lead to its bankruptcy. This was announced by Musk in a letter to the company's employees on November 26, CNBC writes.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and the company leading real estate operations Shikun & Binui signed an agreement on the construction of a new IDF intelligence center in the Negev.

20 conscripts from Kaliningrad will go to serve in the scientific and production company of the Baltic Fleet.

Two dozen young men living in the Kaliningrad Region were selected for the special purpose company as part of the autumn draft, the Military-Industrial Courier was told in the information support department of the press service of the Western Military District for the BF.

48 specialists received the award

Almost 50 people have become laureates of the Gagarin Prize of the Russian Government in the field of space activities for 2021. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.