DUSHANBE, April 8, 2015, Asia-Plus – An exercise for the Joint CIS Air Defense System (JADS) will be conducted in Russia and Kazakhstan in September this year.

Russian news agency Interfax cited Lieutenant-General Pavel Kurachenko, deputy head of the Coordinating Committee for Air Defense under the CIS Council of Defense Ministers, as saying yesterday in Dushanbe that the exercise for JADS, dubbed Combat Commonweatlh-2015, will be conducted at the training grounds in Russia and Kazakhstan in September this year.

Armed forces of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan will participate in the exercise , Kurachenko noted.

Meanwhile, some media outlets report the radio-radar units will work out the issues related to carrying out the radar reconnaissance, as well as detecting a symbolical enemy in the air and targeting during the exercise.

The first phase of the exercise will be conducted at the Ashuluk training ground in Russia and the second phase will be conducted at Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan.

Joint CIS Air Defense System (JADS) is a unified system that comprises air defense units and elements of the former Soviet republics under control of the Air Defense Coordinating Committee of the CIS.  Currently there are six de facto members of JADS: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.  The System was established by 1995 Almaty agreement.  This agreement was also signed by Georgia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, however Georgia and Turkmenistan ceased their membership in 1997, while Uzbekistan is maintaining cooperation with Russia on a bilateral basis.