Major General Pham Truong Son directly directed at the shooting range.

Major General Pham Truong Son, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army attended and directed the drill. The exercise aims to test and evaluate the training, combat readiness, quality of weapons, equipment and technical assurance of the units. This is the highest form of training in order to train and improve the capacity of commanding, synergizing and operating mixed aircraft of all types of aircraft for regimental level officers of the whole service; assurance of aviation engineering, airport technical logistics, radio and information stations in the performance of combat training and combat missions.

Su-30MK2 launched from Regiment 923

In 2023, the PK-KQ Air Force directed units to send young and inexperienced pilots to participate in shooting and bombing exercises to assess the army's ability to exploit and master new weapons and equipment. The scale of the navigation sport is larger than previous years, with the participation of the Air Force of the whole army (including the Air Force of the PK-KQ and the Navy; The contents of the sports festival require higher requirements and are closer to actual combat.

The units actively organized theoretical research, practical training, developed shooting exercises, shooting plans for the combat crews to handle the situation and have the best firing results: 100% of the units participating in the navigational sports and shooting and firing drills were all excellent and excellent.

Su-30MK2 flight crew took off.

The drills for firing and bombing live ammunition took place in unfavorable weather conditions, due to the circulation of the No. 1 storm, cloudy and cloudy skies... However, the Su-30MK2, Su-27, Su-22, and Mi-17 and Mi-8 helicopters of the units practiced attacking ground targets during the day, with the contents of a simple dive, rocket launcher, and simple rocket engine. At the very first attack, many young pilots, practicing shooting and bombing for the first time, hit the target right from the first series.

Dive to attack the target 

The units participating in the drills flexibly and creatively applied theoretical content to practice exercises, quickly familiarizing themselves with the battlefield. With serious and strict preparation, the live-fire drills of air defense units took place according to plan, ensuring absolute safety of people and technical equipment, reflecting the actual level and quality of combat readiness training of air defense units in the whole service.

 Kill the target from the first attack

The training session for guidance, firing drills, and real-time bombs and bullets were properly evaluated, and the ability to fly in combat applications - guidance and interception of aerial targets of the Air Force units of the whole army; The level of using real weapons of the air force pilots (flight crews) in the Air Force Air Force, along with the skills of calculation, command and control, handling of situations, and the work skills of the Flight Commander, Pilot, Pilot cum Navigation and Navigation Officer.

Mi-17 destroys targets from rocket salvoes 

The results of the sports festival and drills are also the basis for the Air Force - Air Force to direct the air force units to improve the quality of training - ensure flight safety to meet the requirements of the mission in the new situation.

News, photos: HOANG KHANH TRUONG