The tasks that the exercise participants were faced with were fulfilled, the goals were achieved, ”said Lieutenant-General of Aviation Nurlan Ormanbetov, Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff. More than three thousand servicemen, over 500 units of armaments and military equipment were delivered to the areas of the air exercise. The military transport aviation of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation was involved. A joint headquarters was created in Yekaterinburg, which included representatives from all the CSTO member states to jointly address the tasks of transporting troops to the training areas. “Within the framework of the CSTO, the Airborne-2018 command-staff exercise was held for the first time. Questions of planning the application and execution of tasks by the Collective Aviation Forces of the CSTO in the interests of the rapid deployment of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces in the Central Asian region were worked through. More than three thousand servicemen were deployed to the testing grounds of the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) during the first command-staff exercise with the Collective Air Force of the CSTO “Air Bridge-2018”, which ended on October 13 in Yekaterinburg.