The Algerian army carried out important air-land maneuvers in Tindouf (south), a province bordering Western Sahara and Morocco, according to images on Algerian public television broadcast Monday evening.
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This exercise, dubbed Al-Hazm 2021 (“Resolution” 2021) took place Sunday and Monday under the supervision of the Chief of Staff of the National People's Army (PNA), General Said Chanegriha.
For nearly a quarter of an hour, television showed a tactical exercise with live missiles, including the latest version of the Russian anti-tank missile Kornet.
The only non-Russian weapon on display, the Algerian army exhibited for the first time an American Beechcraft 1900 MMSA-Hissar electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
These exercises
"are part of the evaluation of the first phase of the combat readiness program for the year 2020-2021",
according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense.
They
"aim to develop combat experience,"
General Chanegriha said in a speech.
Referring to regional instability, the Chief of Staff stressed that Algeria "deserves that its army is constantly up to the challenges it faces today, and that it remains eternally free, sovereign and tenacious. facing the enemies of yesterday and today ”.
Algeria, Africa's largest country, has more than 6,500 km of borders with seven countries, some of which are in conflict.
Ally of the Saharawi separatists, Algiers strongly denounced
"foreign maneuvers"
aimed at destabilizing it and pointed the finger at Israel, after the recognition by the United States of the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, in return for a normalization of relations from Rabat with the Hebrew State.