Kyrgyzstan will host a special tactical drill, dubbed Kobalt-2022, for Special Force units, which are part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF), from August 2-5.
The CSTO’s official website says the exercise will be conducted in accordance with the plan of joint training of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system.
The purpose of the exercise is to rehearse coordination and interaction in combat missions to detect, block and neutralize terrorist groups.
Servicemen participating in the upcoming war game will rehearse interaction in blocking the channel of drug smuggling and detecting caches and labs for storage and production of narcotic drugs.
The emergency management subunits will work out the tasks of eliminating the consequences that arose during the anti-terrorist operation, according to the CSTO’s official website.
Collective Rapid Reaction Force is a joint combined arms task force comprising independent military units from the Collective Security Treaty Organization member nations.
CRRF currently comprises following units: Russia — 98th Guards Airborne Division (Ivanovo) and 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade (Ulyanovsk); Kazakhstan — 37th Separate Air Assault Brigade (Taldykorgan) and Marine forces battalion; Belarus — Spetsnaz brigade; Armenia — infantry battalion; Kyrgyzstan — infantry battalion; and Tajikistan — infantry battalion. The total strength of CRRF is more than 17,000 servicemen.
The first joint exercises of CRRF were held in October 2009 at Matybulak firing range in Kazakhstan, near the border with China.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
