ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
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Russian snipers held "dueling" in the mountains of Armenia

Yerevan October 27

Marianna Mkrtchyan. The servicemen of the sniper unit of the Russian
military base stationed in Armenia conducted a "duel" in the mountains
as part of the final test for the summer training period of 2017.

As head of the press service of the Southern Military District,
Colonel Vadim Astafyev told ArmInfo, the final combat training
competitions for snipers were conducted at an altitude of more than 2
thousand meters above sea level in difficult climatic conditions, not
known terrain on the range of Alagyaz.

In preparation for the final inspection, the snipers of the connection
passed theoretical tests based on the knowledge of the fundamentals of
security and the proper equipment collection for conducting all types
of combined arms combat in non-standard conditions. In practice, the
standards for the tactical- special and fire training. Servicemen
using optical instruments observed the most important goals of the
conventional enemy for a long time at a range of up to 1500 meters
along the front.

During the "duels", snipers divided into two groups fulfilled the
standards for fire damage, suppression and destruction of subversive
groups of illegal armed formations (IAF) of the conventional enemy
from sniper rifles (SVD) and interaction with each other using modern
radio stations "Azart" and complexes of control, intelligence, control
and communication Strelets.

Also, snipers performed masking tasks in a high-mountainous rocky
landscape and conducted accurate fire on the most important targets
detected, with a change in positions and covert movement to fire
areas.

In total, more than 100 snipers of the Russian connection in Trans
Caucuses were involved in the final control audit.