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2022-07-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Special purpose artillerymen: how Russian special forces hunt NATO howitzers
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Most commentary by Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots
Military correspondent "KP" Alexander Kots reports that the front has leveled off, bringing the special operation closer to the general battle for Donbass
by Alexander Kots
- Get the coordinates! - the radio clicks.
- Ready to accept, - replies the commando with camouflage pants tucked up in the manner of shorts.
In the steppe - 40 degrees in the shade. If you find it. But this does not negate the armor and helmet. A red-hot haze hangs in the air mixed with black smoke - either from burning warehouses that were hit by the American Hymars, or from flaming wheat fields, which Ukrainians with some maniacal enthusiasm throw incendiary ammunition. With one hand they scribble angry notes about the grain blockade, with the other they destroy the grain harvest in the Donbass.
The work of secret units that calculate Western weapons in Ukraine
Military correspondent "KP" Alexander Kots showed how the allied forces of the LPR and Russia calculate the American howitzers "M-777"
The officer writes something in a notebook with a pencil and gives sharp commands to the howitzer crew. Two people set the required parameters.
- Ready!
- Fire!
The 152-mm gun "Hyacinth-B" Tsar-bell hits the eardrums, spitting out a high-explosive fragmentation projectile towards Soledar ...
The main battles in Donbas last week unfolded along the Seversk-Artemovsk line, to which Ukrainian troops retreated after fleeing from Svitlodarsk, Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. The front leveled off bringing the special military operation closer to the general battle for the Donbass.
Today Kyiv understands perfectly well that sooner or later this line will be broken - cities are too dependent on communication between each other. And the supply lines between them are about to be cut. And then the Russian troops will come close to the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration, where the main battle of this stage of the NMD will begin.
So the Ukrainian command is trying to gain time in order to prepare the eastern borders along the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka-Konstantinovka-Avdeevka axis. While there is an opportunity, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have transferred up to 500 people and about 50 pieces of artillery, including NATO artillery, from Seversk to Soledar. Which is now being hunted by the elite of the Russian special forces, together with the Luhansk artillerymen. From the first - aerial reconnaissance from a drone, accurate coordinates and adjustments, from the second - a weapon from which almost sniper fire is fired, and competent calculation.
Special forces say that there are good days when two American M777 howitzers are destroyed, but we have to get out, pulling our gun almost to the front line, as now. To level the difference in firing range and increase accuracy. There is a risk of running into counter-battery fire. Therefore, the gun does not linger at one point for a long time.
While the drone searches for a new target, the special forces show on tablets what the Ministry of Defense press releases call objective control.
- Here are three tanks - destroyed at a distance of 21,500 meters, here is a column of cars - instead of rushing off into the horizon after the first explosion, for some reason she decided to hide in a forest belt, deciding that we did not see her. Do you know how far the hood of a car can fly off when detonated? See for yourself - a white hood flies over a forest plantation and plans for 600 meters from the explosion site. “Those same “three axes” (as the troops called the M777 howitzer) are already on fire.
- The goal is two pickups and a minibus, take the coordinates, - the radio comes to life again.
"They transferred all the logistics and the supply of ammunition to civilian vehicles a long time ago, so it’s not surprising that they also fall under fire," the commando explains.
- Fire!
- There is a fire, you can add, - the radio wheezes.
Several more shells are sent along the coordinates.
“The target was hit, something caught fire in the woods nearby,” the drone operator confirms over the link.
Artillery has become, perhaps, the main and decisive factor in this conflict. And, despite its numerical superiority among the allied forces, the enemy continues to snarl, including precision-guided munitions, aiming them at ammunition depots and headquarters. Russian air defense is capable of intercepting such ammunition, which it demonstrates on a daily basis.
But Kyiv switched to the tactics of massive shelling. When one "package" goes first "Hurricane", then "Point U", and then - rockets "Hymars". And the whole question is whether the air defense forces have enough opportunities to repel everything flying without reloading.
Unfortunately, not always. Moreover, air defense is powerless in front of cannon artillery, which, for example, cover Donetsk around the clock. In the past week alone, American missiles destroyed a food warehouse in Stakhanov, a trolleybus depot in Alchevsk, brewery in Perevalsk. And in Kyiv, already in the framework of negotiations on the supply of missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers, they are aiming at the Crimean bridge ...
“Let’s roll up,” commanded a commando officer. And the entire calculation quickly leaves the position until it is covered by enemy artillery.
On the way, I stop by an old friend - the commander of a cannon division with the call sign "Tobol". The last time we saw each other was in May, when he was standing near Rubizhne. Now, with his artillery, he ensures the advance of the troops in the most difficult direction - Artemovsky and Soledarsky.
What has changed in these two months?
“Resistance has dropped noticeably,” says a young LNR lieutenant colonel. - It is, but not as desperate as in Severodonetsk or Popasnaya. They use urban buildings, and that, of course, is sad. People will need to go back somewhere. Not everyone can be explained that it was not the troops of the Russian Federation or the LPR who used the housing stock as firing points. Well, the enemy began to use NATO weapons. Quite unpleasant, but we have established a fight with them.
- Last time you and I only dreamed that sooner or later the republic would be liberated. Today you are helping your neighbors...
- None of the fighters perceived the further advancement as helping some other republic, a neighboring state. This is Russian land, and we are marching within the framework of the NMD, fulfilling the requirements that the command has presented to us.
- That is, there is no desire to lie on the stove and rest on the laurels of a winner on a republican scale?
- Of course not. War to the end. Here the flag of the Russian Federation will be hoisted over Kyiv, then it will be possible to take a vacation for 10 days. And then - as the commander will determine.
Luhansk army captured an American howitzer
In a huge concrete hangar of a glass factory, which is on the way from Lisichansk to Seversk, it flew right into the roof, breaking the floors and bringing down tons of concrete on an American armored tractor with a howitzer standing inside.
The calculation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered by aerial reconnaissance at the positions from which Ukrainian artillerymen fired at Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. It was decided to trace the route of the M777, which brought our weapons to this hangar.
155mm shells scattered right there. Nearby are two civilian trucks, on which the Ukrainians brought ammunition. But the trophy team of "Ganych" took out the gun itself for study by Russian specialists.
"Recently, when the enemy has time to prepare a retreat, he always leaves some surprises," Genych reveals the features of the work of the trophy team.
- You climb into the trench - four NLAWs, three are leaning against the parapet, one is carelessly lying around. You pull each cat slowly, and the one that was lying raises the entire dugout into the air. Stretch marks are now placed at the level of the knees, and the wire is pulled with an asterisk - you won’t pass by. Very similar to what the terrorists did in Syria. And at every position, literature is necessarily lying about the sabotage case.
Almost all Ukrainian equipment that was shown last week in Lisichansk is the result of the work of the Genych trophy team, consisting of three people. Although, of course, not everything found was put on public display.
- There are mountains of all kinds of anti-tank missile systems, "Stingers" - also a million. Moreover, as it turned out, a beacon works in them, giving out their location, - the trophies say. But you know what's interesting. They now even have Western ammunition for Soviet types of weapons. Be it a Grad, a 120mm mortar or a D-30 cannon. All shells are with foreign markings. Have you run out of yours?
The M777 howitzer is covered with a camouflage net. This is the first trophy copy, albeit charred. For us, the grid is removed, showing the American gun. According to the military, up to 100 Ukrainian special forces guarded the area waiting for howitzers.
- They really did not want this type of weaponry to go to us as a trophy, and we could study it thoroughly. That is why it was so carefully guarded, - an officer of the Lugansk army corps "Sambo" tells me.
- Although the gun was damaged, the combat information system survived and was transferred for study.
- Local residents say that among the gunners they saw a dark-skinned foreigner who allegedly oversaw the use of the M777 ...
- According to our intelligence, it was an American gunner who took care of the calculation. Training does not take a very long time, but the system is crammed with electronics, all kinds of blocks, it is difficult to master everything in a short time. They taught to shoot, but when servicing, you need a specialist who did this.
All electronic units and combat control systems were handed over to specialists, who now have the opportunity to study NATO weapons in detail.
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