KRASNODAR, March 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin tried his hand at firing a missile on a simulator during a visit on Thursday to the Hero of the Soviet Union A.K. Serov Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots.

Major General Anatoly Yudin, head of the school, showed the Russian leader how to fire a missile on a simulated mission.

"Here is the combat button," Yudin told the supreme commander-in-chief. "Press the combat button upon receiving a command - I beg your pardon - information from the instructor in the rear cockpit," he said.

After simulating a missile attack, Russia’s head of state continued his tour of the school’s training facilities.

Established in 1938, the Serov Military Aviation School in Krasnodar in southern Russia boasts among its alumni five two-time heroes of the Soviet Union, 137 Soviet heroes and nine heroes of the Russian Federation, of whom five have been given awards for their martial feats in the special military operation zone. The school became a coeducational institution in 2017 when it accepted its first female students.