Belarusian army units practice faster air strikes during exercise

An experiment was staged as part of the ongoing bilateral comprehensive exercise of Belarus' Armed Forces. The Air Force and Air Defense Command staged the experiment to tweak tactical control of aviation units and provide faster aerial support to ground forces, BelTA has learned.

According to the Defense Ministry, Yak-130 aircraft and Mi-24 helicopters delivered air strikes against ground targets of the simulated enemy in the 210th aviation training area.

Deputy Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command, Chief of Aviation, Colonel Leonid Davidovich said: “We tried to make a conclusion about how we can skillfully use aviation and how we can reduce the time needed to call an air strike. We are practicing calling for air support at the tactical level, the operational level, and the operational strategic level. We will also try to reduce the time between the arrival of aviation and the moment the target's coordinates are determined. To be exact, from the moment aviation is given a mission to destroy a target.”

The experiment allows testing various control schemes, Leonid Davidovich said. “Several of them have been deployed today. The first one relies on existing communications solutions. The second one on promising communications and automation solutions.”

Certain positive results were produced. They will be taken into account for combat training purposes.

Written by belta.by