Young pilots of the Russian army aviation in Erebuni, Armenia, trained to engage ground targets during the flight drills.

In combat missions, the pilots carried out take-off, exercises over the airfield, a flight to the high-altitude Alagyaz polygon, where they piloted and interacted with motorized rifle divisions in assigned missions, returned back to the airfield and landed.

Mi-24P and Mi-8MTV helicopters in pairs and flights jointly with ground troops in reconnaisance-strike systems trained to fire non-guided missiles.

The flight drills involved some 300 servicemen (pilots, ground support teams and motorised rifle units), and over 50 pieces of military and aviation hardware.