Over 300 militaries of the Southern Military District (SMD) of the Russian military base carried out 100 km march on 150 items of special military vehicles to the high-altitude firing range “Alagyaz” in Armenia. The soldiers and sergeants are expected to do “extreme driving” exercises at the height of 2,000 meters above sea level and at the temperature of over 50 degrees by Celsius, SMD press-service reports.

The militaries will overcome impediments in the conditions of lowered atmospheric pressure, sharp temperature fluctuation within 24 hours, etc. Over 70% of the trainings will be conducted at nighttime, part of them in the conditions of the application of mass destruction weapons by a conventional adversary.