Missile regiment "Topol" was alerted for participation in the exercises on the middle Volga. Previously to the command and staff exercises in Yoshkar-Ola joined 2 other missile regiment. Colonel General of the strategic missile forces Sergei Karakaev raised the alarm during a training exercise the next merge mobile missile complexes "poplar". Rocket shelves made night marches and anti-sabotage tasks. "A regular missile regiment, and part of the securing brought to the highest degree of combat readiness. They have to make the 50-mile night March in the positional area of the missile regiment," said to "Interfax" adept of the Department of public relations of the defense Ministry Igor Egorov. Just to participate in the exercise involved about 3,000 troops and more than 200 pieces of equipment. When developing the task of combating sabotage imaginary enemy saboteurs were having experience of struggle against mobile missile complexes. "As imitation bands FSD enemy in the exercise involved units of spetsnaz. Conditional saboteurs who have undergone special training in the teaching of resist not only the forces of protection and defense compounds, but the formation of the Central military district, who will perform these tasks in wartime," said a military official. Subsequently in the process of the exercises is scheduled to work on a wide range of various tasks. Soldiers will be trained to face an opponent in conditions of active radio-electronic suppression and to carry out maneuvers during a combat patrol. Days.Ru already wrote about military exercises held in Russia. In the Astrakhan region on 28 September of 2015 there was battle launching of the missile complex "Iskander-M". The installation is designed to engage targets located at distances up to 500 km.