In Kars, the Day of elite observers in the framework of winter exercises-2025, organized by the Armed Forces of Turkey, began.
under the control and department of the headquarters of the 3rd Army, the command of the 14th mechanized infantry brigade at the training ground and exercises in Kars conducted the Winter exercises-2025.
The exercises were attended by 12.199 personnel from the Ministry of National Defense of Turkey, the General Staff of Turkey, the command of the Ground Forces, the command of the naval forces, the command of the military forces, the command of special forces, civilian state institutions and organizations. 12,000 from representing Turkey, 199 participants in the exercises from the USA, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Great Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Libya, Niger, Niger, Niger. Tajikistan and Jordan.
During the exercises, training and events were carried out on such key issues as mortar shooting, searching and salvation, ensuring cooperation and coordination in combined operations, checking the combat skills of units, synchronization of fire and maneuvering.
The Secretary General of the command of the 3rd Army, Colonel Serdar Basher during a press Britting, which took place at the landfill and teachings named after the martyr intelligence officer senior sergeant Ilhana Hamla, spoke about the details of the exercises.
After a briefing, the equipment used in the winter equipment of the Commandos is presented. The search and salvation battalion for natural disasters and the unit participating in the exercises from Azerbaijan provided information about the equipment they used.
Then the special forces demonstrated their positions, where they spend the night, hide in the cold, eat and drink, and also serve weapons.
The group, consisting of special forces by the participating countries, conducted an operation to penetrate the enemy goal defined in accordance with the script.
Special Forces landed on enemy objects from helicopters and successfully completed the operation, destroying conventional caves.
The special forces group was supported by the attacks “Attas”.
For the first time in the winter exercises, ACV-X ACV-X combat armored vehicle was used, which was converted into an unmanned system and got the possibility of distance management and autonomous movement based on the modernized ACV-15 of the Turkish Ground Forces.
The purpose of the exercises is to ensure interaction and coordination during combined and joint operations, to check combat capabilities and abilities, including fire in deep snow and severe cold, simulate the battlefield in all its dimensions, improve the synchronization of shooting and maneuver, increase the level preparations for the arrangement of settlements, shelters, nutrition and maintenance in the field in the winter, as well as ensure the work of command and management systems in winter conditions.
The day of the exercises of elite observers will continue the shooting of F-16 fighters.