Units of the Southern Military District, Baltic Fleet and Airborne Forces have been brought to highest state of combat readiness in the framework of large-scale strategic drills, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service said.
"A number of military units and formations of the Southern Military District, Baltic Fleet and Airborne Forces have been moved to the highest state of combat readiness and started entering land and sea ranges," TASS cited the press service.
More than 2000 military signalers and more than 500 items of special communication equipment of military units and the field army of Southern Military District have been deployed to hold command post exercises in the North Caucasus, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.
During the command post exercises on March 17-20 military communicators will work out practical steps to organize data exchange between subscribers within common automated control system units with military operations in different weather conditions and allowing for mines and rocky terrain.
In addition, communications departments will work out the interaction with modern medium power radio, stations of space and satellite communication, mobile communication stations, digital radio stations and small satellite stations.
The chief editor of 'National Defense' magazine, Igor Korotchenko, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the alarm in the Southern Military District is a planned event, which is being held according to the plan of the supreme commander."We constantly have such unannounced inspections which cover all types and kinds of troops in the Ministry of Defense without exception. The present exercises, I think, are a military-political demonstration of Russian military capabilities to repel any form of aggression, and a signal that we send to Washington and the West that it is futile to talk to Russia from a position of strength and with the language of force," the military expert said.As to the question of what caused such a choice of the Southern Military District, Igor Korotchenko noted that it is a choice made by the supreme commander Vladimir Putin: "I think this is due to the reflection of specific threats in specific areas, based on how we see these threats and how we intend to fend them off," Igor Korotchenko concluded.Major-General Sergei Kanchukov linked the unannounced inspection in the Southern Military District with the completion of the training period in the army. "I do not think that it is related to something else - the international situation or anything else. These inspections are aimed at maintaining constant combat readiness," the expert said.The executive editor of the weekly Independent Military Education, Viktor Litovkin, said that the alarm was raised yesterday by decree of the President. "The Commander gives some task on transfer of units to a particular distance in a particular region. They check the readiness of units, the possibilities of military transport aircraft or railway troops," the expert said.Viktor Litovkin stressed that if we look at what is happening at the Russian border, we can assume that this is due to a demonstration of the Russian armed forces to NATO countries, which are holding exercises near Russia's borders, placing military bases near it.
The chief editor of 'National Defense' magazine, Igor Korotchenko, told Vestnik Kavkaza that the alarm in the Southern Military District is a planned event, which is being held according to the plan of the supreme commander.
"We constantly have such unannounced inspections which cover all types and kinds of troops in the Ministry of Defense without exception. The present exercises, I think, are a military-political demonstration of Russian military capabilities to repel any form of aggression, and a signal that we send to Washington and the West that it is futile to talk to Russia from a position of strength and with the language of force," the military expert said.
As to the question of what caused such a choice of the Southern Military District, Igor Korotchenko noted that it is a choice made by the supreme commander Vladimir Putin: "I think this is due to the reflection of specific threats in specific areas, based on how we see these threats and how we intend to fend them off," Igor Korotchenko concluded.
Major-General Sergei Kanchukov linked the unannounced inspection in the Southern Military District with the completion of the training period in the army. "I do not think that it is related to something else - the international situation or anything else. These inspections are aimed at maintaining constant combat readiness," the expert said.
The executive editor of the weekly Independent Military Education, Viktor Litovkin, said that the alarm was raised yesterday by decree of the President. "The Commander gives some task on transfer of units to a particular distance in a particular region. They check the readiness of units, the possibilities of military transport aircraft or railway troops," the expert said.
Viktor Litovkin stressed that if we look at what is happening at the Russian border, we can assume that this is due to a demonstration of the Russian armed forces to NATO countries, which are holding exercises near Russia's borders, placing military bases near it.
