On October 24-28 at shooting ground «Alagyaz» of the 102nd Russian military base in Armenia joint Armenian-Russian tactical exercises with military firing were conducted. Exercises theme was: to organize defense in close contact conditions with the enemy, to conduct defensive action, counterattack and occupy a favourable position.
From each side one motorized infantry battalion with reinforcement means – howitzer artillery battery, field engineers, mortar platoons and radiation-chemical defense, special detachment took part in the exercises.

At the results of two quarters of 2011, quantity of incidents with fatal outcome in the Armenian army comparing with the same period of the previous year reduced twice and murders – four times, informed RA Military Prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan in his talk with “Hay Zinvor” correspondent. “This year crime detection rate in the army reaches almost 100%, – told the Prosecutor. – Except some picking incidents all the crimes are solved. There are no unsolved heavy crimes”.

Recently the third, final stage of TIR (total internal reflection) facilities “The best division, battery, account and agent” contest has been conducted in the RA AF. According to TIR troops Deputy Head Colonel A.Poghosyan, almost 150 servicemen – officers, warrant officers and soldiers participated in the contest. Control tasks were worked out according to the methodology drawn by the TIR Department specialists. The advantage of this methodology is that with its help it is possible to review many tactical norms. E.g. our accounts managed to bring ЗРК “С-125” from fighting to marching condition and back quicker than it is mentioned in the norms of the Soviet army. As a result of checking tasks the norms fulfillment time for RA AF “С-125” was considerably reduced.

On October 2-16 in all the military unities of the RA national army the competition «The best moto-infantry platoon» was conducted. Such a competition is conducted every year in the end of the education year’s summer phase. The best platoon is determined according to the programs of the RA AF military drill. During the competition the experience of leading methodologists on conducting military drill is being summarized, too.

Recently in the 4th Army Corpus tactical training with military firing has been conducted. According to the exercises scenario, one of the military units was brought to high military alertness, conducted a spurt and occupied the defensive line. The subunits conducted a defensive fight with a conditional enemy in the close touch conditions. In conditions, very close to military ones, a special attention was paid to the development of fire management skills of commanders of all levels.

Recently on the order of the RA AF General Staff’s Head in the training centre «Asparez» the competition of tanks and BMP crews has been conducted. The crews took exams on physical, technical, combatant drills, tactics and other subjects. After the theoretical exams all the crews fulfilled tasks on machine driving and military firing. During one of the tasks the crews, leading an unknown route, overcame the line of obstacles on military equipment.

Recently the totals of artillerymen annual all-army competition “Fire Shield” were summed up. The Competition participants had to resolve problems, which were worked out by the RA MOD Rocket Troops & Artillery Department’s specialists and during the education year were published in the Armenian MOD newspaper “Hay Zinvor” (Armenian Soldier). Among the problems were: conditional enemy’s location’s determination, analysis of battle situation, locality and weather conditions, fire direction’s determination on the basis of artillery reconnaissance data etc. Participant’s answers were examined by the Commission headed by Deputy Head of Department Colonel A.Mkrtchyan.