We are going to conquer Ukraine
The other day, examining an article by an American expert, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vershinin, I understood one thought: not all NATO lieutenant colonels clearly understand how we will begin to seize this very Ukraine.
Of course, we don't need it at all, and we also need to eliminate the consequences of the Ukrainian government in the most independent one at our own expense. This, you know, will be cooler than Chernobyl.
However, if the command gives an order - well, where to go, let's go and capture. Well, or free from idiots, which is almost the same thing.
Yes, this D-Day and H-hour are all familiar. The guns banged, the MLRS howled, and they were shrouded in gray smoke Tanksand the Invasion began.
But we will not be in the forefront in a hot Tiger-type jeep. We will be a little behind everyone else, because our goal is also to carry. But if the former will carry freedom and all that to the brotherly people of Ukraine, then we will bring the liberators everything they need in order to liberate Ukraine in a beautiful and civilized manner. That is, fuel, oil, spare parts for what will be broken (and it will be broken, this is the army, not a parade), water, medicines, food and everything else.
In addition, someone will have to drag out the equipment broken in the heat and (God forbid) damaged as a result of the enemy's actions.
Although, to be honest, everything that happens will be more like the Paris-Dakar rally. That is, who is faster. APU from the Russian army, of course.
And those who are left behind, that is, part of the supply, will have to plunge into the supply orgy. Because even if only the 20th army marches across the Ukrainian land, it will already be a rehearsal of the Apocalypse with a huge capital letter. And the farther from the home border, the more difficult it will be to supply this breakthrough, which requires fuel, lubricants, food and water, not to mention ammunition.
Photo: mil.ru
In this, the NATO lieutenant colonel was right. It will be simply unrealistic to provide all this with trucks, if only because the carriers are not iron, and neither are the cars. No, the cars, of course, are made of metal, but we have nothing that cannot be destroyed and smashed.
So whether we want it or not, we will have to look in the direction of two non-intersecting steel beams of a special section, laid on supports to form a path.
That's right, we are talking about a rail-sleeper lattice or a more familiar rail track.
Naturally, it will occur to every thinking person that the best way to supply troops is to use the railroad. The efficiency of this type of transport is beyond doubt and is much higher than that of cars.
However, with the "piece of iron" everything is not as colorful as we would like. This is a very complex mechanism, which is not as easy to customize for yourself as it seems. But: if we are going to carry after the swiftly (how else?) The advancing troops fuel, shells, stewed meat, condensed milk and everything else - then we must start.
What we will start with is the creation of transit warehouses on our territory, where all goods will lie under reliable protection and defense, protected from disasters and natural phenomena. And we will do it, for example, in Belgorod. We fill the warehouses for a week of hostilities, adjust the spare equipment and begin to observe the development of events, glancing badly in the direction of Kharkov.
No, tanks that are not afraid of mud, they can go as and wherever they want, in accordance with the plans of the command. It is about 70 km to Kharkov, because as soon as the columns begin to move towards this city, we are doing a very important job. We call special forces.
Yes, special forces are a very important element in our venture. Moreover, the special forces must be very intellectually advanced, on the one hand, and on the other hand, they must be able to break a brick on their head. About someone else's head. In principle, it doesn't matter where these eagles come from: army intelligence, airborne forces, someone else. The main thing is that these should be mobile guys, whose main task will be to grab someone before the mess that accompanies such things as the seizure of the city begins.
A group of our saboteurs will have to take control of the most important place for us in the city. Of course, not the post office and the telegraph, all this is left in the distant past. Railway station. Desirable - safe and sound. And with a couple of very important people. Not necessarily the head of the station, you can be any competent: deputy, station attendant, dispatcher, in general, someone who knows where, what and how.
The task is not easy, because it is necessary to find the station authorities and seize them. And for this you have to not run into a surprise. After all, you probably think that the station master is sitting at the station? But not necessarily. A station is not a railroad, and the station master may not be there. There may definitely be a train station attendant who we don't need at all. And the boss can be anywhere.
Digress. Now, if NATO comes to my city with such goals, then I will very sincerely sympathize with these guys. The enemies will not find the station bosses at the station, since he has not been there for 15 years already. And the station bosses sit almost a kilometer from the station, in the bowels of a multi-storey building. And if you don’t know where to look, there’s not that you can manage to destroy everything, you’ll also have time to catch the last train.
So - very clearly you need to know who to grab by the scruff of the neck and show how the white brick easily breaks on the head. Well, or "Yarygin" to tickle the hairdo. In general, the essence is clear. We really need a person who knows the station facilities. At least one and without it in any way.
Move on. Simultaneously with the station master or his assistant, we must find in the bowels of the duty room a couple of very important tools, without which our operation will be doomed to failure.
The point is that the station is made up of arrows and traffic lights. Without a clear work of which it is generally unrealistic to move. Both arrows and traffic lights are powered by electricity. Do you think it is possible to have a power outage at such a time? I think yes, it is possible. If only simply because panic is such a thing. The neighbors themselves can cut it out just in case, a random shell can fly in, in general - everything is shaky.
Personally, in the place of the mayor or commander of the opposing side, I would de-energize the station precisely for reasons of not being used by the enemy. Moreover, I would put 200 grams of explosives under the supply cables. Or into the main switchboard.
Of course, each station has a reserve in the form of diesel generators. In Ukraine, I would not really count on them, simply because they run on diesel fuel. Which can be leaked a week ago and sold. This is a normal thing for us, and even more so for our neighbors.
The station may actually be de-energized, and it may not be possible to restore the power supply immediately. Yes, our mobile generator based on a truck will drive up where they say, but still, there must be an electrician who knows where the cables go and so on.
And we have a very strange construction on the stage. Without which the operation will indeed be difficult to perform.
This is kurbel. Meet those who don't know. A tool that is able to solve all problems at the station. Yes, it looks ugly, but the tolovaya saber is not a beauty, but it is capable of heaping things up. Usually, the kurbel lies quietly with the station attendant in a special box, closed and sealed.
Why such strictness? And here's what. With the help of kurbel, you can almost easily solve the problem of lack of electricity. Manually.
This interesting tool opens the cover of the drive mechanism of the transfer of the arrow and thus locks it tightly.
That is, even when electricity is then given, the arrow cannot be translated until the cover and safety bolts come back. Well, the second number of the program is that you can activate the mechanism for translating the arrow and manually translate it with the help of the cursor.
Look, a very simple diagram of the Kharkov station.
We will have to enter the train on the right and drive north, to the left. It becomes clear that this cannot be done in a straight line. The train will write out a zigzag and pass several arrows, which will have to be in the correct position.
That is why you need a person who knows the switch management and where the korbeli are. You can, of course, bring your own, no one forbids.
After that, we manually set the arrows for the direct passage of the station by any train on our side, block them from unauthorized transfer (we sew them up), put them near each soldier just in case and ... you can go towards the next station.
Yes, now is the time to ask the question of how with security.
Security will not be very good. De-energized security systems and turned off traffic lights are unpleasant, but nothing more. Any sensible driver knows how to turn off the alarm on a locomotive and drive on. Naturally, diesel locomotives are used, since the electrical network can also be turned off.
It’s not bad to put a reserve locomotive ahead of our train, just in case, with a couple of platforms in front. And in case of mining tracks, and in case of a surprise from the other side. Nobody bothers especially smart ones at the next station to take the same diesel locomotive and send it on the opposite path head-on to our trains. A diesel locomotive is such an interesting thing, it is able to fly into a colleague's forehead, easily dispensing with personnel in the cockpit with minimal alterations.
In general, railways are a very vulnerable business, as the experience of that war showed. And you can do things there without bothering yourself too much. The simplest undermining. And here the same guys from the railway troops should come to the rescue of the supply. They know how to eliminate damage and prevent them.
And our special forces, which by that time were already clearly bored, will have to go to the next station. Lyubotin, Poltava, Romodan, Trebinka. And the next one is Kiev.
Of course, Kiev is not included in the schedule. But the creation of MTO bases on the way to the Ukrainian capital is quite a reasonable thing. Plus from Poltava within a radius of 200 km lie Kremenchug, Cherkassy and Dnepropetrovsk, which is now just the Dnieper. So the MTO base in Poltava is quite convenient and reasonable.
In principle, when we talk about possible actions on the territory of other countries (especially this is the sin of the hurray patriots, who in three weeks in the English Channel will catch herring from tanks), we really leave the supply behind the scenes. Meanwhile, without the work of MTO units, there can be no talk of any military operations. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles will stand, hungry infantry will lie nearby and this will all end. Maybe without much loss, but very shameful.
And it would seem how simple it is - crossed the border and forward to the west!
But it will not work. Without the creation of bases and warehouses, without control over roads and bridges, without taking full control of the railways, it will be very difficult.
Considering that in the country in question, there is more than enough percentage of the population ready to arrange a dirty trick. However, this is war. Let it be theoretical.
So a torn signaling cable, a brake shoe put on the rails on the stretch and other "pranks" - all this can be. Therefore, the work on supply outside the territory of Russia in any case will begin with the conquest of transport arteries and control over them.
Of course, it is very good to win over the employees of the railway stations on the Ukrainian territory. This would greatly facilitate the restoration of full-fledged operation of the stations. We are talking about all positions. Shunting machinists and compilers are well versed in the movement of rolling stock throughout the station (especially important for large stations), they know the work of switches and semaphores. They will not get confused when re-forming echelons, when one part should go to the south and the other to the west. They are very helpful people.
Yes, of course, control over them should also be at the highest level, because it is a specialist who can easily arrange a catastrophe. For example, while a train with loads is moving, simply move the arrow under the wagons while moving. This will be a guaranteed gathering of all or almost all of the composition. And if the train is carrying ammunition or fuel, everyone can draw conclusions himself.
We very often talk about the prospect of hostilities in different parts of the world, and in some areas we are even conducting these hostilities. Events in Syria have shown how important timely and accurate supply of troops is.
Today, many countries are vying with each other about the fact that Russia is about to attack Ukraine. As it was said in one old book, we will forgive them, for they do not know what they are saying. Indeed, it is worth shouting about danger to the whole world precisely when supply bases are created near the borders, railway stations will be in the focus of intelligence, and so on.
Until that time, both Ukraine and Europe can sleep absolutely peacefully. We will not come to war unprepared. But when we come, you can be calm, we will come as fully armed as possible, not only in the front ranks, but also in the rear.
Of course, we don't need it at all, and we also need to eliminate the consequences of the Ukrainian government in the most independent one at our own expense. This, you know, will be cooler than Chernobyl.
However, if the command gives an order - well, where to go, let's go and capture. Well, or free from idiots, which is almost the same thing.
Yes, this D-Day and H-hour are all familiar. The guns banged, the MLRS howled, and they were shrouded in gray smoke Tanksand the Invasion began.
But we will not be in the forefront in a hot Tiger-type jeep. We will be a little behind everyone else, because our goal is also to carry. But if the former will carry freedom and all that to the brotherly people of Ukraine, then we will bring the liberators everything they need in order to liberate Ukraine in a beautiful and civilized manner. That is, fuel, oil, spare parts for what will be broken (and it will be broken, this is the army, not a parade), water, medicines, food and everything else.
In addition, someone will have to drag out the equipment broken in the heat and (God forbid) damaged as a result of the enemy's actions.
Although, to be honest, everything that happens will be more like the Paris-Dakar rally. That is, who is faster. APU from the Russian army, of course.
And those who are left behind, that is, part of the supply, will have to plunge into the supply orgy. Because even if only the 20th army marches across the Ukrainian land, it will already be a rehearsal of the Apocalypse with a huge capital letter. And the farther from the home border, the more difficult it will be to supply this breakthrough, which requires fuel, lubricants, food and water, not to mention ammunition.
Photo: mil.ru
In this, the NATO lieutenant colonel was right. It will be simply unrealistic to provide all this with trucks, if only because the carriers are not iron, and neither are the cars. No, the cars, of course, are made of metal, but we have nothing that cannot be destroyed and smashed.
So whether we want it or not, we will have to look in the direction of two non-intersecting steel beams of a special section, laid on supports to form a path.
That's right, we are talking about a rail-sleeper lattice or a more familiar rail track.
Naturally, it will occur to every thinking person that the best way to supply troops is to use the railroad. The efficiency of this type of transport is beyond doubt and is much higher than that of cars.
However, with the "piece of iron" everything is not as colorful as we would like. This is a very complex mechanism, which is not as easy to customize for yourself as it seems. But: if we are going to carry after the swiftly (how else?) The advancing troops fuel, shells, stewed meat, condensed milk and everything else - then we must start.
What we will start with is the creation of transit warehouses on our territory, where all goods will lie under reliable protection and defense, protected from disasters and natural phenomena. And we will do it, for example, in Belgorod. We fill the warehouses for a week of hostilities, adjust the spare equipment and begin to observe the development of events, glancing badly in the direction of Kharkov.
No, tanks that are not afraid of mud, they can go as and wherever they want, in accordance with the plans of the command. It is about 70 km to Kharkov, because as soon as the columns begin to move towards this city, we are doing a very important job. We call special forces.
Yes, special forces are a very important element in our venture. Moreover, the special forces must be very intellectually advanced, on the one hand, and on the other hand, they must be able to break a brick on their head. About someone else's head. In principle, it doesn't matter where these eagles come from: army intelligence, airborne forces, someone else. The main thing is that these should be mobile guys, whose main task will be to grab someone before the mess that accompanies such things as the seizure of the city begins.
A group of our saboteurs will have to take control of the most important place for us in the city. Of course, not the post office and the telegraph, all this is left in the distant past. Railway station. Desirable - safe and sound. And with a couple of very important people. Not necessarily the head of the station, you can be any competent: deputy, station attendant, dispatcher, in general, someone who knows where, what and how.
The task is not easy, because it is necessary to find the station authorities and seize them. And for this you have to not run into a surprise. After all, you probably think that the station master is sitting at the station? But not necessarily. A station is not a railroad, and the station master may not be there. There may definitely be a train station attendant who we don't need at all. And the boss can be anywhere.
Digress. Now, if NATO comes to my city with such goals, then I will very sincerely sympathize with these guys. The enemies will not find the station bosses at the station, since he has not been there for 15 years already. And the station bosses sit almost a kilometer from the station, in the bowels of a multi-storey building. And if you don’t know where to look, there’s not that you can manage to destroy everything, you’ll also have time to catch the last train.
So - very clearly you need to know who to grab by the scruff of the neck and show how the white brick easily breaks on the head. Well, or "Yarygin" to tickle the hairdo. In general, the essence is clear. We really need a person who knows the station facilities. At least one and without it in any way.
Move on. Simultaneously with the station master or his assistant, we must find in the bowels of the duty room a couple of very important tools, without which our operation will be doomed to failure.
The point is that the station is made up of arrows and traffic lights. Without a clear work of which it is generally unrealistic to move. Both arrows and traffic lights are powered by electricity. Do you think it is possible to have a power outage at such a time? I think yes, it is possible. If only simply because panic is such a thing. The neighbors themselves can cut it out just in case, a random shell can fly in, in general - everything is shaky.
Personally, in the place of the mayor or commander of the opposing side, I would de-energize the station precisely for reasons of not being used by the enemy. Moreover, I would put 200 grams of explosives under the supply cables. Or into the main switchboard.
Of course, each station has a reserve in the form of diesel generators. In Ukraine, I would not really count on them, simply because they run on diesel fuel. Which can be leaked a week ago and sold. This is a normal thing for us, and even more so for our neighbors.
The station may actually be de-energized, and it may not be possible to restore the power supply immediately. Yes, our mobile generator based on a truck will drive up where they say, but still, there must be an electrician who knows where the cables go and so on.
And we have a very strange construction on the stage. Without which the operation will indeed be difficult to perform.
This is kurbel. Meet those who don't know. A tool that is able to solve all problems at the station. Yes, it looks ugly, but the tolovaya saber is not a beauty, but it is capable of heaping things up. Usually, the kurbel lies quietly with the station attendant in a special box, closed and sealed.
Why such strictness? And here's what. With the help of kurbel, you can almost easily solve the problem of lack of electricity. Manually.
This interesting tool opens the cover of the drive mechanism of the transfer of the arrow and thus locks it tightly.
That is, even when electricity is then given, the arrow cannot be translated until the cover and safety bolts come back. Well, the second number of the program is that you can activate the mechanism for translating the arrow and manually translate it with the help of the cursor.
Look, a very simple diagram of the Kharkov station.
We will have to enter the train on the right and drive north, to the left. It becomes clear that this cannot be done in a straight line. The train will write out a zigzag and pass several arrows, which will have to be in the correct position.
That is why you need a person who knows the switch management and where the korbeli are. You can, of course, bring your own, no one forbids.
After that, we manually set the arrows for the direct passage of the station by any train on our side, block them from unauthorized transfer (we sew them up), put them near each soldier just in case and ... you can go towards the next station.
Yes, now is the time to ask the question of how with security.
Security will not be very good. De-energized security systems and turned off traffic lights are unpleasant, but nothing more. Any sensible driver knows how to turn off the alarm on a locomotive and drive on. Naturally, diesel locomotives are used, since the electrical network can also be turned off.
It’s not bad to put a reserve locomotive ahead of our train, just in case, with a couple of platforms in front. And in case of mining tracks, and in case of a surprise from the other side. Nobody bothers especially smart ones at the next station to take the same diesel locomotive and send it on the opposite path head-on to our trains. A diesel locomotive is such an interesting thing, it is able to fly into a colleague's forehead, easily dispensing with personnel in the cockpit with minimal alterations.
In general, railways are a very vulnerable business, as the experience of that war showed. And you can do things there without bothering yourself too much. The simplest undermining. And here the same guys from the railway troops should come to the rescue of the supply. They know how to eliminate damage and prevent them.
And our special forces, which by that time were already clearly bored, will have to go to the next station. Lyubotin, Poltava, Romodan, Trebinka. And the next one is Kiev.
Of course, Kiev is not included in the schedule. But the creation of MTO bases on the way to the Ukrainian capital is quite a reasonable thing. Plus from Poltava within a radius of 200 km lie Kremenchug, Cherkassy and Dnepropetrovsk, which is now just the Dnieper. So the MTO base in Poltava is quite convenient and reasonable.
In principle, when we talk about possible actions on the territory of other countries (especially this is the sin of the hurray patriots, who in three weeks in the English Channel will catch herring from tanks), we really leave the supply behind the scenes. Meanwhile, without the work of MTO units, there can be no talk of any military operations. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles will stand, hungry infantry will lie nearby and this will all end. Maybe without much loss, but very shameful.
And it would seem how simple it is - crossed the border and forward to the west!
But it will not work. Without the creation of bases and warehouses, without control over roads and bridges, without taking full control of the railways, it will be very difficult.
Considering that in the country in question, there is more than enough percentage of the population ready to arrange a dirty trick. However, this is war. Let it be theoretical.
So a torn signaling cable, a brake shoe put on the rails on the stretch and other "pranks" - all this can be. Therefore, the work on supply outside the territory of Russia in any case will begin with the conquest of transport arteries and control over them.
Of course, it is very good to win over the employees of the railway stations on the Ukrainian territory. This would greatly facilitate the restoration of full-fledged operation of the stations. We are talking about all positions. Shunting machinists and compilers are well versed in the movement of rolling stock throughout the station (especially important for large stations), they know the work of switches and semaphores. They will not get confused when re-forming echelons, when one part should go to the south and the other to the west. They are very helpful people.
Yes, of course, control over them should also be at the highest level, because it is a specialist who can easily arrange a catastrophe. For example, while a train with loads is moving, simply move the arrow under the wagons while moving. This will be a guaranteed gathering of all or almost all of the composition. And if the train is carrying ammunition or fuel, everyone can draw conclusions himself.
We very often talk about the prospect of hostilities in different parts of the world, and in some areas we are even conducting these hostilities. Events in Syria have shown how important timely and accurate supply of troops is.
Today, many countries are vying with each other about the fact that Russia is about to attack Ukraine. As it was said in one old book, we will forgive them, for they do not know what they are saying. Indeed, it is worth shouting about danger to the whole world precisely when supply bases are created near the borders, railway stations will be in the focus of intelligence, and so on.
Until that time, both Ukraine and Europe can sleep absolutely peacefully. We will not come to war unprepared. But when we come, you can be calm, we will come as fully armed as possible, not only in the front ranks, but also in the rear.
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