Moscow (VNA) – Lieutenant General Phung Si Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of theVietnam People’s Army (VPA), visited Seltsy military training ground in Ryazanprovince of Russia to watch Vietnamese shooters’ competition as part of theongoing International Army Games 2021.

Tan, who is leading a high-ranking VPA delegationto visit Russia, encouraged members of the Vietnamese team and expressed his hope thatthey will show best performance while ensure safety against COVID-19.

On the occasion, MajorGeneral Anatoly Georgievich Kontsevoi, Deputy Commander of the airborne forcesof Russia and main referee of the Sniper Frontier contest, paid acourtesy call to the Vietnamese delegation.

The Russian officer spoke highly of Vietnamese gunmen’s good skills and highsense of discipline. He held that the Vietnamese sniper team boasts high potentialto enter the semi-final scheduled for August 31.

Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dinh Tat Thang, head of the Vietnamese sniper team, said that the team hadgained encouraging scores with two snipers ranking third out of 17 competitors inindividual events and another ranking fourth in another individual event.

Sniper Frontier has been held forthe first time at the Int’l Army Games 2021. The competition takes place infour stages, in which the first is an individual skill assessment, thesecond is a pair assessment, the third is a team assessment, andthe fourth is a speed assessment.

Each stage hasdifferent contests, with one contest taking the priority in the case of twoteams sharing the same total score. The performance of the first stagedetermines the groups of teams as well as the contests in the later stages. Thethree weapons used for the competition are the Makarov K59 pistol, the AK74automatic rifle and the 7.62 mm SVD sniper rifle./.