As part of an annual camp, tactical and special exercises have been conducted for artillery subunit of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan, according to the press center of the Central Military District of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation.
The base’s artillery unit and the company of air drones have reportedly rehearsed coordination and interaction in discovering and annihilating full-sized targets.
The exercises involving more than 800 military personnel and some 100 military materiels have been conducted at the Lohour training ground, some 40 kilometers of Dushanbe.
The annual camp for the base’s artillery unit has been conducted during a month, the Central Military District press center said on September 4.
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.
