On January 18, Alexander Lukashenko accepted Viktor Khrenin, Minister of Defense, with a report. He was interested in the results of five-year period development of the Army as well as the upcoming Russian-Belarusian exercises “Zapad-2021”. This was reported by the press office of Alexander Lukashenko and the Ministry of Defense.
Joint exercises of different branches of troops, special troops of Air Force and Air Defense took place under leadership of Major General Igor Golub, Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense. Over two thousand military personnel and more than ten units of aviation equipment were involved in the exercises. New techniques and methods of using military units and subunits of the Armed Forces were tested taking into account the experience of dealing with modern local conflicts.
In compliance with the exercises plan of the Air Force and Air Defense troops for 2020/2021 academic year, joint exercises of different branches of troops and special forces of Air Force and Air Defense will take place on January 14 headed by the Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense.
The first field tests of robotized system "Whistle" developed by specialists of LLC BSVT-New Technologies took place at one of the Belarusian military ranges on October 14-15, 2020. The System was introduced this May at the parade in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
OJSC Orsha Aircraft Repair Plant employees have completed overhaul of another Mi-24 helicopter. This is the second rotor-wing vehicle this year returned to the Armed Forces in a completely different quality condition.
