MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Over 300 troops with Russia’s Southern Military District (SMD) communications brigade concluded special tactical training exercises in the internal Russian republic of North Ossetia, the district’s press service said Sunday.
"More than 300 soldiers took part in the exercises and about 100 units of special equipment were deployed. The signallers deployed mobile field command posts, communications centers, and used the ‘Andromeda-D’ radio relay communication station mounted on the Kamaz vehicle and unified radio stations mounted on BTR-80," the SMD said.
The military communications troops trained to organize connectivity on shortwave and ultra-shortwave radio stations in field conditions, and provided video conferencing with the use of advanced equipment, the district specified.