MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - The second stage of the Torgau-2005 Russian-US maneuvers opens at the Grafenwehr training grounds in Germany on Sunday.
The main goal of the maneuvers is to practice operations on joint defense against an aggression on the part of the third state, the Russian Land Forces press services told RIA Novosti.
A Joint Russian-US Headquarters will supervise the maneuvers. A joint operational headquarters of a Russian and a US division, reduced headquarters of a Russian and a US brigades, and a combined Russian motorized rifle infantry and a combined US motorized infantry companies will participate in the maneuvers.
Fifty-two officers from the US Army Europe command and 87 men from a combined motorized infantry company will participate in the second stage of Torgau-2005.
The Russian side will airlift 52 officers from the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces and 85 men from a combined motorized rifle infantry company at the Combined Arms Academy training center to the Grafenwehr base.
A combined motorized rifle infantry platoon from Russia consists of headquarters (3 men), an artillery platoon (3 guns, 25 men), a strengthened motorized rifle infantry platoon (37 men), a tank, an IFV, a mounted automatic grenade launcher with a crew and an anti-tank missile launcher with a crew, a reconnaissance group (15 men) and a sapper section (5 men).
A combined motorized infantry company from the US includes headquarters, an artillery section (3 guns), a strengthened motorized infantry platoon (33 men), a tank, an IFV, a reconnaissance group (10 men) and a sapper section (5 men).
The second stage of the joint Russian-US military maneuvers in Germany will end on June 3, 2005.
