ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
April 6, 2004 Tuesday 4:16 AM Eastern Time

Hundred air defence units take part in CIS drill

MOSCOW

More than a hundred air defence units of the CIS joint Air Defence
system will take part in a joint command-staff drill on Wednesday,
Itar-Tass was told by press service chief of the Russian Air Force
Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky.

The drill will be supervised by the central command post of the
Russian Air Force under command of Russian Air Force chief Gen.
Vladimir Mikhailov, the press service said.

The joint troops will practice ten tasks with the aim to improve the
efficiency of the CIS joint Air Defence system, Drobyshevsky said.
More than a hundred Air Force and air defence units and 80 aircraft
will be involved in the war games.

The drill will be held with the participation of Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Russia.