India, Russia to hold air, land exercises in Thar desert
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Aug 26, IRNA
India-Russia-Exercises
Close on the heels of the largest-ever Russia- China military maneuvers, India and Russia proposed to hold large scale air and land exercises in the Thar desert in mid October, with the accent on anti-terrorism.
The week-long exercises involving specialised para forces from the two countries would "seek to strike an interoperability" between the land forces of the two countries for possible future operations under international peace keeping manner in third countries, with the focus on volatile Central Asian region, highly placed army sources said here.
In the exercises, which would entail blitzkrieg style
anti-terrorist commando operations with the use of aircraft and helicopters, a Russian Specialised para battalion and an Indian Para battalion would be deployed, the sources said.
Russian forces would be deploying specialised anti-terror infantry weapons like sniper guns, rapid firing machine guns, anti-material rifles as well as long distance specialised rockets during the exercises.
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