International Army Games 2020 ended

According to a single plan, exercises of the Naval Forces and Marines were simultaneously conducted, and special forces carried out tactical and fire actions to resolve a simulated armed conflict in a crisis area.

The main purpose of the exercises was to work out joint actions to ensure the country's security in the Western region. In addition to the Armed Forces, structural subdivisions of other state bodies were involved in the maneuvers that took part in the activities within the framework of the interdepartmental complex exercise "Becket-2020".

During the exercise, the situation was simulated, as close as possible to real combat conditions, taking into account the need to respond to complex risks and threats of a hybrid nature, as well as asymmetric actions of a simulated enemy.

Throughout the exercise, special operations forces continuously carried out reconnaissance of the terrain using unmanned aerial vehicles. This made it possible to timely identify illegal armed formations and orient the combat units on the direction of the forthcoming actions.

Military sailors took measures to protect objects of maritime economic activity and the defense of the coast. The forces of rocket and artillery boats repelled an attack of a mock enemy from the sea, blocked and neutralized ships that violated the sea border of Kazakhstan.

A number of the most important tasks were performed by a detachment of combat swimmers. By landing from the air and from boats in a given area, the soldiers prevented the actions of underwater scouts, organized the protection of their boats from enemy saboteurs, and also secretly mined a simulated enemy ship.

The Marines worked out the issues of localizing an armed conflict in the border area, including the deployment of refugee camps and the organization of the necessary information and psychological work with them.

Separately, an episode of actions of special units was played out with the use of army tactical shooting, which is now being actively implemented in the troops, primarily in the Special Operations Forces and special purpose units. This is a new direction in the combat training of personnel, where, taking into account modern features, the main attention is paid to the skills of soldiers to conduct combat operations in conditions of the transience of combat, limited space, the immediate proximity of the enemy and the absence of conditions for deployment in battle formation. During the implementation of tactical army exercises, servicemen defeat the enemy from various positions, using both small arms and cold weapons, including knives, sapper blades, etc. This requires from the soldiers not only confident professional skills, but also special psychological training, which is carried out with the personnel on an ongoing basis.

The active phase of the exercises was observed by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev and the akim of the Mangistau region, Serikbay Trumov. They highly appreciated the professionalism of the soldiers, the coherence of the actions of units of the Armed Forces and other state bodies in solving problems to eliminate the crisis situation in the region.