SERGEYEVSKY TRAINING GROUND/Primorye/, September 6. /TASS/. The military destroyed a command post of a notional enemy using a multiple launch of Iskander-M tactical missile systems during the final stage of the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) strategic command and staff exercise at the Sergeyevsky training ground in the Primorsky Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
"In order to achieve fire superiority, disrupt the control system of forces and weapons, and also create conditions for engaging the second echelon of the strike group, the headquarters of the coalition group of troops decided on carrying out a massive fire attack on command posts and crucial targets of "the enemy" with the use of a multiple launch of Iskander-M tactical missiles," the ministry told reporters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the drills.
According to the Defense Ministry, the massive fire attack includes one or two multiple strikes by tactical missiles, a multiple air strike and the required number of artillery attacks. For targeting the enemy’s critically important facilities, battalions of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) Uragan, Tornado-G and Grad of the strike force and the MLRS units of Armenian and Mongolian contingents were also involved.
Apart from that, 152-mm self-propelled guns 2S5 Giatsint-S and a battalion of Msta-B howitzers from the Armenian and Belarusian military contingents, as well as a battalion of PLZ-07 self-propelled howitzers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army were engaged in striking the enemy’s artillery units.
Under the drills’ scenario, the coalition forces fired on the stronghold of the notional enemy near the Tri Brata rocks with the use of the advanced TOS-2 heavy flamethrower system. This task was also performed by a BMP-2 infantry combat vehicle, a BTR-82 armored fighting vehicle, T-72B3 tanks as well Type 99 tanks and Type 04 infantry fighting vehicles of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Vostok 2022 drills
The Vostok 2022 strategic command and staff drills are being held on September 1-7 to practice defensive and offensive operations at nine training grounds, including Burduny, Goryachiye Klyuchi, Knyaze-Volkonsky, Lagunnoye, Sergeyevsky, Telemba and Uspenovsky, as well as in the maritime and coastal areas of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.
In all, the Vostok 2022 strategic maneuvers bring together over 50,000 troops and more than 5,000 items of armaments and military hardware, in particular, 140 aircraft, 60 combat ships, gunboats and support vessels.