The President and Commander-in-Chief of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, visited the Kelete military training area, where joint military exercises were held. Tactical manoeuvres have also taken place in the Caspian Sea.
Local TV station Altyn Asyr reports that all training events were broadcast live on special screens using the national artificial communications satellite TürkmenÄlem 52oE.
"In accordance with the country's defensive Military Doctrine, the current exercises are aimed at improving the professional skills and combat training of servicemen, their performance of coordinated actions on land, in the air and at sea".
The teams were assigned such combat training tasks as disarming enemy sabotage groups, repelling enemy air attacks, overcoming a contaminated zone created to contain a breakthrough without casualties using chemical defence equipment, and forcing water obstacles.
Since 1995, Turkmenistan has had the status of positive neutrality and is not a member of any military-political alliance. Turkmenistan's army is considered the third most powerful of the five Central Asian states, after Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. This is according to a report by the Global Firepower 2023 think-tank.
Turkmenistan shares land borders with Afghanistan (800 km), Iran (1,148 km), Kazakhstan (458 km) and Uzbekistan (1,650 km). In the Caspian Sea, the country borders with Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan (1,650 km) and Uzbekistan (1,650 km).
Credits: Eziz Boyarov
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