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Naval ships, boats involved in Azerbaijani Armyâ€™s large-scale drills

14 November 2016 13:50 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. Large-scale exercises conducted in accordance with the plan approved by Azerbaijani President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev, involved ships and boats of the country’s Naval Forces, the Defense Ministry said Monday.

The readiness of the military personnel participating in the exercise as well as the operational situation in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea and the management of the Naval Forces were inspected.

Tasks on putting the Naval Forces into a state of full combat readiness, movement of a group of ships and military units to the staging areas, equipment and operational coordination were successfully completed during the first stage of the exercises.

This phase of the exercise, involving ships and boats, aims at the interoperability with other branches of Armed Forces in fulfilling tasks on the protection of energy infrastructure in the operational zone of the Caspian Sea, the release of the ship captured by terrorist sabotage group, with the landing of special forces group from helicopters on the ship's board.