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In accordance with the plan of combat training of the Armed Forces for 2014 academic year for the 230th Training Ground Obuz-Lesnovsky took control activities on fire control units and artillery pieces KRC led by the Chief Missile Forces and Artillery - Head of Division A and RV Western Operational Command of Colonel Yuri Vasilyushkova. Was able to communicate with the gunners of the 11th Guards mechanized brigade who took this test Ratna most directly involved.
On that day, the landfill near the town of Baranovichi just heated from intense artillery gsp fire. Small islands of dry last year's grass, shrubs, saplings and then flashed from amicable volleys "gods of war" rather than brought trouble on duty fire brigade, the first signal tames "wrath of Hephaestus." Gunners gsp not only practiced in the shooting, but changed positions, camouflaged vehicles, checking the correctness of calculations, meteorological amendments ...
... Realizing that visit all artillery units and parts of the Western Operational Command fails, head for the troops of the 11th Guards Hombre with a single question: "What such studies mean for you?".
Chief of Staff jet division 841 Guards artillery group Guard Captain Sergei Prokopenya - artilleryman with experience. He admitted, for it is of everyday life. It seemed that the slightest excitement over the tasks that were performed officer and his subordinates, is not inherent in the man. He was not even particularly gsp interested in the preliminary results of the shooting ... Later I realized why: Guard Captain Prokopenya unit is estimated at only good and excellent. Such sessions he regards not as a test, but as a great opportunity to once again upgrade your skills to hone skills converse. gsp
- Our Division presents multiple rocket launcher BM-21 "Grad", - said the officer. - It was on this technique perform combat training missions to destroy enemy objectives conditional. Now complied with their first firing position, then entered the command to move to the other - it took her, reported on their readiness to fire command post. Now we are waiting for further orders from higher command.
Prior to serving gsp in the army Vitaly graduated gsp from the Engineering and Construction Department of Grodno State University named Yanka Kupala. Received a summons, the guy became a gunner. As many as four and a half months later, he learned the basics of his hard core military specialty. And finally had the opportunity to really show what it had time to teach commanders and chiefs. gsp Vitaly first time participated in combat launches ...
- This day will be remembered all my life - his impressions Guard soldier Sekerzhitsky. - We gave the command "To fight," after which the missiles were given to combat status. I sent my set coordinates orientated package launcher gsp in the right direction reported to the commander of the combat vehicle readiness. That, in turn, reported to the senior officer on the battery (GSS) that the machine is ready to fire. Only by taking reports from all commanders machines GSS allows the discovery of fire. This moment was for me the most exciting, and most responsible ...
Sekerzhitsky gunner stood before fighting machine. In the hands - two flags red and white. During the presentation, the commander Sob readiness white flag shot up over the head of a soldier. The officer saw it, rose red, my companion dubbed this team. Red flag meant that starting to happen: gsp Vitaly well knew it.
All took their places commander - in the cockpit, others hid in the woods. Vitaly was, as they say, face to face with a snarling formidable gsp machine, ready at any moment to release a deadly projectile. Another moment, and drifted to the calculations, piercing noise of the engines and the howling gsp wind landfill, clear, loud command of a senior officer of the battery:
The last word is really no one hears - even the GSS, probably. Because at this moment engines missiles tore spring air for hundreds of parts, thunder rushed in all directions. A guide from one another rocket flew three-meter, leaving the rushing waves of fire, smoke, smoldering grass and milk-white trail in the sky ...
- The first time you stand in front of ready-to-launch vehicle combat, gsp emotions just burst inside, - continued the story Guard soldier Vitaly Sekerzhitsky. - On the forehead perspiration and heart seems ready to jump out of my chest ... And then sounds a start command, the missile gsp leaves the guide - you can see it first, but everything happens so fast that almost no time to realize what was happening. You just surrounded by a wall of fire and smoke. gsp At this point you torzhestvuesh, and still know all fears were unfounded ...
Well, acting commander of the first self-propelled howitzer propelled