Noble Partner: Anti-tank exercises in action

Georgian and American soldiers are today practicing anti-tank exercises at Vaziani military base just outside Tbilisi.

The exercises were part of the Noble Partner drills, the largest-ever joint military drills between Georgian and NATO forces, which launched on May 11.

Photo by Georgia's Ministry of Defence

Georgian and United States (US) servicemen performed live-fire exercises with portable anti-tank ‎weapons systems. American soldiers watched their Georgian comrades fire SPG-9's after which Georgian soldiers watched their American comrades fire AT-4's.

Photo by Georgia's Ministry of Defence

The Noble Partner 2016 are two-week drills which feature 500 Georgian, 650 US and 150 British service members, as well as US military vehicles that had never been used in any kind of Georgia-based activities before.

At the opening ceremony the military drills were regarded as one of the most important occasions in Georgia-NATO relations.