Ministry of defence Republic of Serbia
 
24.05.2016.

Movement, practicing and shooting at Morava 2016 exercise



Within the Morava 2016 command post exercise, commands and units of the Serbian Armed Forces today are performing tasks on the move, at the permanent and temporary practicing sites, training grounds and airports, with the settlement of command posts outside the peacetime locations.

Units of the Army conduct shooting from their personal and collective weapons practicing the tactical actions and procedures. On the Pasuljanske livade joint training ground at Cuprija, part of the units of the Third Army Brigade realized also tactical exercises with live shooting.

For the purpose of checking the ability to conduct anti-aircraft operations, the command and units of the 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade started preparatory activities, and a part of the brigade's units performed occupying the firing positions outside their peacetime locations and raised the missile technology to the highest degree of readiness for action.

Members of the 98th and 204th Aviation Brigade, in order to create conditions for the relocation of helicopter squadrons, performed occupation of the sports airport "Divci", "Trstenik" and "Leskovac".

At the first training centre in Sombor and Command for the development of Banat brigade in Zrenjanin, the admission of reservists commenced so that in the coming days they will pass the training and firing from the weapons of armoured units. In Sombor, today, after many years, the unit from working obligation has been engaged to provide assistance in reception of personnel from the reserve element. The reserve element has been engaged also in some units of the Army.

In order to make conditions in which commands and units perform their tasks as similar as possible to the war conditions, the management of the exercise undertaken a series of measures to make performing the tasks for the units much more complex.