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Vladivostok Novosti Company
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April 11, 2008
Military news in brief
The Vladivostok News
- On Sunday Primorye’s anti-aircraft formations will organize a display on the city’s central square to demonstrate their equipment for Vladivostok residents and guests. The demonstration is organized to celebrate Anti-Aircraft Defense Day and will show an S-300-PM missile TEL (transporter erector launcher), a long-range missile system Granit, summer military equipment, radar stations and other equipment. The day’s festivities will also feature a performance by the brass band of the Pacific Fleet. Vladivostok residents and guests will also see a documentary on Primorye’s anti-aircraft forces shown on a large TV screen on the central square
- Marine paratroopers of the Pacific Fleet have started drills on two warships ‘Peresvet ‘and ‘Oslyabya’, a press service of the Pacific Fleet reported Thursday. The paratroopers will train landing onto the unequipped coast with the goal of capturing the place of arms. Meanwhile, warships and submarines of the Pacific Fleet have finished drills in the Sea of Japan practicing locating ‘enemy’ targets, artillery and missile shootings and mine-sweeping operations.
 Photo by Konstantin Lobkov, special for The Vladivostok
- Primorye’s electric energy supplier Dalenergosbyt intends to cut off electricity to a military ship repair factory in Vladivostok because of debts, a statement from the company reported. The ship repair plant No. 92 has an electricity debt of 4.7 million rubles ($195,800).According to the statement the electricity will be cut off from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. every day until the debts are paid.
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