Photo by Center for sports training and sporting events of the Tyumen region
Within the framework of the Army International Games taking place these days, the participants tested the second-generation Russian military equipment Ratnik, the head enterprise for development of which is the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TsNIItochmash) of Rostec State Corporation.
In particular, the Ratnik kits were issued to all foreign participants of the Safe Route and Engineering Formula contests held at the training ground of the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School named after the Marshal of Engineering Troops A.I. Proshlyakov.
“More than 70 sets were issued in total”, said Captain Sergey Tikhonenko, head of the missile and artillery armament service of Tyumen Military Engineering Commanding Academy (TMECA). “Guests — representatives of eight countries — tested such equipment for the first time; they have completely different sets of equipment. I had to conduct a kind of a master class, demonstrate how to wear equipment properly, using a system of ties and belts to adjust it in size, height, shape, so that it is convenient.”
According to their Russian servicemen, foreign colleagues from Belarus, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan quickly mastered the Ratnik. This was confirmed by the results shown: in the Safe Route competition, the Russian team won, Belarus took the second place, and Vietnam and Uzbekistan shared the third. In the Engineering Formula contest, the first place was also taken by the Russians, the second by Belarus, the third by China.
According to the conditions of the competition, the teams needed to complete a number of combat training tasks using equipment that is in service with the engineering forces of the Russian army. Contestants competed in engineering intelligence, setting of a 40-meter crossing, equipping for crossing over an obstacle, and dismantling forest debris. More than 10 thousand different imitation tools were used In order to create a situation as close to combat as possible.
