On the Armenian side, a motorized rifle regiment reinforced by a tank battalion, two reconnaissance parties, engineer company, artillery battery, two Su-25 fighters and four Mi-24 helicopters participated in the exercise. On the Russian side, it was a motorized rifle regiment of the 102nd Russian military base in Armenia (city of Gyumri) reinforced by artillery, RIA Novosti quotes Colonel Seran Shakhsuvarian, press secretary of the Armenian Defence Ministry, as saying.
In all, about 2,000 servicemen took part.
The goal of the four-day exercise was to act our cooperation in defence.
The 102nd Russian military base, stationed in Gyumri in 1995, is doing combat duty within the CIS united air defence. The base is subordinated to the Russian Transcaucasian body of troops of the North Caucasian military district. Its strength is about 5,000. The 102nd base has an S-300 antiaircraft missile system and MiG-29 fighters.
