Citing Colonel Yaroslav Roshchupkin, an aide to the commander of Russia's Central Military District, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports a squadron of BM-27 multiple rocket launchers is involved in ongoing joint combat training of sub-units of the Tajik and Russian armies in Tajikistan.
The BM-27 Uragan (Hurricane) self-propelled multiple rocket launchers have reportedly been involved in in the Tajik-Russian joint military exercises in Tajikistan for the first time.
The ongoing combat training is a part of a snap combat readiness check, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Recall, sub-units of the Russian and Tajik armies are carrying out combat training tasks in the single operational situation in accordance with the unified plan.
Four attack planes SU-25M have been deployed to Tajikistan from the Russian air base Kant in Kyrgyzstan and four bombers SU-24M have been deployed to Tajikistan from the air base Shagol (Russia’s Chelyabinsk oblast) for participating in the ongoing combat training.
According to Russia’s Central Military District, the exercise that is lasting for a month is being held at the Harbmaydon training ground not far from the Tajik-Afghan border.
The Russian 201st military base in Tajikistan was reinforced by the squadron division of Uragan self-propelled multiple rocket launchers in May this year.
The BM-27 Uragan (Hurricane) is a self-propelled multiple rocket launcher system designed in the Soviet Union. It began its service with the Soviet Army in the late 1970s, and was its first modern spin and fin stabilized heavy multiple rocket launcher. The BM-27 Uragan is capable of launching 220 mm rockets from 16 launch tubes mounted on the rear of a ZIL-135 8×8 chassis.
The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is Russia's largest non-naval military facility outside the country. It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad.
A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are now stationed at two military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base – in Dushanbe and Qurghon Teppa, some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe.
