A joint command-staff exercise is taking place in Belarus from March 24 to 26 under the leadership of Deputy Defense Minister for Armaments — Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces, Major General Andrei Fedzin.
The Defense Ministry says the purpose of the exercise is to improve the preparedness of officials of technical support management bodies in carrying out crisis response tasks during a period of escalating military threat.
Participants include the Armaments Staff and technical support management bodies of the Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces, the Armaments Directorate of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces, the North-Western Operational Command, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces, as well as a number of arsenals and missile and artillery bases, specialists from the Armed Forces Research Institute, and the military-technical faculty of BNTU.
“During the exercise, it is planned to enhance the readiness of functional groups of control centers for high-quality planning of technical support and to reinforce the practical skills of officials of military unit commands in making operational decisions,” the Defense Ministry’s press service reported.
