On November 7-12 in the RA Defense Ministry trainings with public officers of RA state governance bodies were conducted. The aim was: to expand cooperation between military and state offices in the sphere of strengthening of the state’s defense potential.
According to the trainings program confirmed by the RA Defense Minister, the trainings participants listened to the lectures of high-ranking servicemen: RA AF General Staff Head and heads of departments. With the public officers practical exercises with combat firing and grenade throwing were also conducted.

Recently according to Deputy Head of RA AF GS Lieutenant General A.Paytyan “The Best RA AF Medical Service” Contest has been conducted. For this purpose a Commission was formed which, according to specially worked out criteria, checked all the medical services of the RA Armed Forces. Particularly the degree of medical services recruitment, their activities planning, the degree of operational and mobilization readiness, crew’s military-medical readiness, the level of ambulatory and stationary care organization, sanitary-and-epidemiologic situation and sanitary-and-hygienic ensuring of the regiments were inspected.

“In case if the Azeri snipers hit our servicemen, in the issue of our retaliation the enemy has two, three times more losses and basically among the officers”, – told Colonel A.Hovsepyan to the “Hay Zinvor” correspondent.

According to the Colonel, the Armenian side’s punitive force first of all is aimed at the enemy’s snipers. If they are mostly armed with Azeri production sniper rifles, our units, subject to the given task, are armed with the newest arms of various calibers and range which excel the enemy’s weapons with their capabilities.

RA AF intelligence agents’ supply with the newest arms and other equipment is in the centre of AF leadership’s attention, told Colonel A.Hovsepyan to the “Hay Zinvor” correspondent. Particularly this year for the purpose of increasing special assignment group’s mobility special all-terrain vehicles were purchased.
Our domestic military industry produces radio-intelligence facilities for RA AF military intelligence which enable to detect on a big distance the movement of both enemy’s crew and defense technology.

Recently in connection with the Military Agent’s Day, on November 5th “The best sniper couple” contest has been conducted. During the Contest the participants’ physical and firing preparations, their ability to survive in different climatic conditions, to get tasks, to make decisions were inspected. In the final stage the participants were given tasks to reveal their powers of endurance: they marched 30-50km to discover the conditional enemy’s object and to eliminate it.

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”.