Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, opening on the eve of Army game, He addressed the issue of participation of teams from around the world. This year, the game presents the most widely. So, alone sites for the stages of the tournament - in dozens 10 countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, China, Uzbekistan, Mongolia.
Russian minister particularly touched upon the issue of non-participation in the Army-2019 NATO troops. This question was asked by journalists Sergei Shoigu.
According to Shoigu, non-participation of the NATO commands can be explained solely by policy consideration.
Defense Minister:
political considerations, they, of course, present, when they say: “No, Well, we in their games will not participate”. There is a lot of risk. If you have appliances worse, tomorrow you will be worse to sell.
In this way, Sergei Shoigu stressed, that NATO may fear losing teams and technology from other countries, that would be associated with trading risk - decline in demand for weapons from the same US and other countries of the North Atlantic military bloc.
Shoigu said at the same time, that participate in the Army-2019 is open to all countries, regardless of, they are included in any military and military-political blocs, or not included.
Minister added, Army games that would have been glad to see participants from NATO member states.
For reference: in the competition program of the Games following stages as "World Warrior", "Tank biathlon", "Sea Cup", "Polar Star", "Sniper line", «Sokolinaya desire», "Suvorovsky pressure", "Clean Sky", etc..
