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Bishkek, Oct. 13, 2018. /Kabar/. The active phase and the closure of the Interaction-2018 command and staff exercises with military contingents of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces took place at the training ground of the Edelweiss training center inInteraction-2018 command-staff exercises of CSTO CRRF completed in Kyrgyzstan - photo
Bishkek, Oct. 13, 2018. /Kabar/. The active phase and the closure of the Interaction-2018 command and staff exercises with military contingents of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces took place at the training ground of the Edelweiss training center in Balykchy. The progress of the active phase of the exercise was observed by Chairman of the Committee for Defense Affairs of the Jogorku Kenesh Iskhak Piramtov, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Kyrgyz Armed Forces Kubanychbek Orozmatov, Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Peter Tikhanovsky, Chief of the Joint Headquarters of the CSTO Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Commander of the Central Military District of the Russian Federation Lieutenant General Alexander Lapin, heads of defense and international cooperation committees of the CSTO member states, invited guests. In the course of the final stage of the Interaction-2018 command-staff exercise, assault, motorized-rifle, artillery units, special-purpose groups, as well as long-range military transport, assault and army aircraft with airborne landing were involved. The main objective of the exercise was to develop forms of joint planning and use of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO. The Interaction-2018 joint exercise was organized in accordance with the Plan approved by the Council of Ministers of Defense and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils in 2017 and aimed at working through the use of troops (Collective Forces) of the CSTO to protect the independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the CSTO members on a collective basis. During the exercise by the forces and means of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) of the CSTO, the order of interaction of the troops in solving the tasks in combat, material, technical and other types of support was worked out, as well as the planning of comprehensive support for the joint operation; actions in designated areas with live fire training. For example, in the course of working out the episodes of the operation, the Forpost unmanned aerial vehicles were involved, which detected the «advancement» of the main forces of the «militants» to the border of the conventional CSTO states. Preemptive air strike was launched on them by two Tu-22M3 and Russian Federation bombers, Su-25 attack aircraft and Mi-24 helicopters. In total, about 2000 military personnel, 300 pieces of equipment, about 40 aircraft, including UAVs, were involved in the Interaction-2018 command-staff exercises with the military contingents of the CSTO CRRF military contingents. The maneuvers in the Kyrgyz Republic became the final activity of the phase of resolving a military conflict within the framework of a single plan of the Combat Brotherhood-2018 operational-strategic exercise of the CSTO. Read more