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'Noble Partner' US-Georgia Military Drills to Kick Off Near Tbilisi

© AP Photo / Shakh AivazovUS and Georgian servicemen, with Georgian and US flags in front, take part in the joint US-Georgia military exercise (File)
US and Georgian servicemen, with Georgian and US flags in front, take part in the joint US-Georgia military exercise (File) - Sputnik International
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Hundreds of US and Georgian troops are set to participate in a joint military exercise that will commence on Wednesday near the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

TBILISI (Sputnik) The war games called Exercise Noble Partner 2016 will be conducted on May 11-26 at Georgia’s Vaziani Air Base, 12 miles from Tbilisi.

U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at the M1A2 Abrams battle tank during a military exercise at the Gaiziunu Training Range in Pabrade some 60km.(38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, April 9, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The exercise will bring together 500 Georgian and 650 US service members as well as 150 UK military personnel. It will feature a full range of equipment, from US Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry vehicles to M119 howitzers and Georgia’s T-72 tanks and BMP-2 infantry combat vehicles.

The drills are aimed at enhancing US and Georgian interoperability within the NATO Response Force, which is a high readiness force established in 2003 to respond to emerging security situations.

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