Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the Ulyanovsk airborne formation have used the Strelets newest reconnaissance complex and Ratnik outfit in the mountains of Tajikistan for the first time during the joint counterterrorist exercise.

Reinforce unit of the Russian Airborne troops has been transported by military aircraft from Ulyanovsk to the Afghan-Tajik border.

The scouts conducted jumps from the altitude of 3,000 using the Arbalet-2 special parachute systems.

The servicemen are practicing different types of reconnaissance in order to detect camps of conditional illegal armed formations in mountainous terrain.