OOC: This is going to be my daily news thread similar to the one RomeW has. Basically here i will post daily events that happen in my nation. Its a newspaper.
VSN Training Exercises
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Today several units of the Delta Group were involved in training exercies in the remote regions of the Urals. This is a part of bigger exercises involving all VSN group, each one training in the environment their tactics are specialized to face. The already mentioned Delta Group is specializing in mountain warfare. The Alfa Group is specialized in Anti-terrorist warfare. The Beta Group is specialized in Urban Warfare, the Gamma Group is specialized in Forrest/Jungle warfare, the Delta Group is specialized in Mountain Warfare and the GPV (Group of Desert War) is specialized in Desert Warfare. Since Alfa is the most well rounded of all groups it has dispatched units that would train alongside the other groups in their respective environments. According to the statement issued by the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense these exercises are meant to demonstrate how effective exactly is the VSN. While being second smallest branch of the military it is also 4th most expensive. The VSN operatives involved in these exercises train using mostly hardware they would be able to abtain in a crisis situation in which they will have to abtain means of defense from the enemy, thus this is why you see the soldiers using AK-74s on the picture above. This is done because the games are mostly focused on anti-terrorist warfare and terrorist widely use the already mentioned AK-74. The games will be conducted over a yet unknown period of time, expect new updates as we receive more information from the Ministry of Defense.