YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Alagyaz mountainous training center launched tactical exercises with firing via tanks, organized by the Russian military base installed in Armenia, the Southern military district informs.

The tanks will hold offensive combat with conventional mechanized enemy units that have overcome the mountainous terrain and take up defensive. The exercises will work out joint actions of infantry and armor units at the location and outpost, as well as in traveling and outposts.

Special attention will be paid to management of skills by the crews for operating in mountain serpentine roads, aiming to apply the skills and determination of the distance to the target instrument in smoky and foggy weather.

Over 50 armored vehicles and about 200 personnel are participating in the exercises.