EDELWEISS RANGE (Kyrgyzstan), (Sputnik) — Russia's Orlan, Eleron and Zastava unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been deployed for reconnaissance missions over mountainous terrain at Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) drills in Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Central Military District said Wednesday.
"Bombing, assault and army aviation, conventional and rocket artillery and mortar units strike the positions and approach routes of illegal armed groups revealed with the help of the UAVs," an aide to the district’s commander Col. Yaroslav Roshchupkin said.
The UAV group's reconnaissance stage allowed the detection, isolation and destruction of simulated armed groups numbering over 150 people.
The CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance of former Soviet states, which comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
