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  • Hundred air defence units take part in CIS drill

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    April 6, 2004 Tuesday 4:16 AM Eastern Time

    Hundred air defence units take part in CIS drill

    MOSCOW


    More than a hundred air defence units of the CIS joint Air Defence
    system will take part in a joint command-staff drill on Wednesday,
    Itar-Tass was told by press service chief of the Russian Air Force
    Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky.

    The drill will be supervised by the central command post of the
    Russian Air Force under command of Russian Air Force chief Gen.
    Vladimir Mikhailov, the press service said.

    The joint troops will practice ten tasks with the aim to improve the
    efficiency of the CIS joint Air Defence system, Drobyshevsky said.
    More than a hundred Air Force and air defence units and 80 aircraft
    will be involved in the war games.

    The drill will be held with the participation of Armenia, Belarus,
    Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Russia.
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