CIS ANTI-AIR DEFENSE "BATTLE COOPERATION-2009" JOINT TRAININGS TO BE HELD IN ASHULUK
ARMENPRESS
Feb 10, 2009
MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 10, ARMENPRESS: This year within the frameworks
of CIS joint system of anti air defense "Battle cooperation-2009"
joint trainings with battle shooting will be held in Ashuluk
military training ground, the Chief Commander of Russian Air Forces,
Colonel-General Alexander Zelin told journalists.
"During the joint trainings it is being planned to test the
implementation of armies and forces which enter in CIS joint system
of anti-air defense in case the military political situation winds
up in one of the regions of Collective security", – Zelin said.
The CIS joint system of anti-air defense was established on February
10, 1995. Ten CIS states were involved in it -Armenia, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan and Ukraine. In 2008 Georgia came out of CIS and CIS joint
system of anti air defense.