CIS commanders drill joint use of CIS air defence system
ITAR-TASS News Agency
February 9, 2005 Wednesday
MOSCOW, February 9 — CIS commanders-in-chief of the air force and
air defence systems attended practical lectures on the joint use of
the troops of the CIS air defence system on Wednesday.
The drill is organized at the initiative of the Russian Air Force
Command and is held during an assembly of CIS commanders-in-chief
and commanders of the air force and air defence systems that began
on Tuesday.
“Partakers in the assembly flied to Rzhev in the Tver region on
Wednesday morning and practiced the equipping of a command post of
the tactical unit of the air defence system that fulfills tasks in the
CIS air defence system,” head of the Russian Air Force press service
Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. Members of
the coordinating committee also visited the Rzhev-based aviation plant.
“The drill will be continued in the Star City on Wednesday afternoon,
where partakers in the assembly will familiarize with the methods
and the material and technical basis of cosmonauts’ training,”
Drobyshevsky pointed out.
He also noted that CIS commanders-in-chief of the air force and air
defence systems of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will take part in a solemn
meeting that is devoted to the tenth anniversary of the creation of
the CIS air defence system in Moscow on February 10.