"West-2013" - as it were
There was a large-scale destabilization of the socio-political situation in Belarus and in the Kaliningrad region, where illegal armed groups operate. They receive support from the territory of neighboring countries, camps for training terrorists who are being bombarded, including the sea, have been set up in the western enclave of Russia. The same way the militants come weapon. Illegal armed groups seized a part of the Russian coast, as well as a number of settlements located near the coastline.
1. The Russian territorial waters included foreign ships carrying the fighters and weapons.
2. With the help of speedboats, the landing of fighters of an illegal armed formation on the coast begins.
3. Militants landed more and more.
4. Ammunition and barrels of fuel are loaded onto seized cars.
5. There are still many militants aboard a foreign ship, so the boats scurry about like shuttles between the intruder ship and the coast.
6. Another battle group is landing.
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13. The warships of the Russian Navy are blocking the landing area of the illegal armed formations.
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16. Su-24 front bombers appear in the sky.
17. Militants throw all the way.
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19. Attack the Su-34.
20. Militants are beginning to mine the terrain to make it harder for the prosecution.
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26. Go deep into the coast.
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30. Part of the militants occupy the defense, covering the main mass of the retreating.
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According to the plan of fire destruction of force fleet started the fire preparation of the landing of the sea landing. A group of ships of direct fire support consisting of four missile boats of Project 1241 carry out the defeat of fire weapons of a conditional enemy on the shore.
With access to a distance that ensures the effective use of naval artillery, the destroyer of project 956 "Persistent" proceeds to fire destruction of designated coastal targets. Following the ships, the army sets about to defeat the enemy aviation.
The operation involved a strike group of four Mi-24 helicopters. Their task is to inflict fire damage on militant formations.
1. Ships providing sea blockade.
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3. Ships pursue ships of illegal armed groups.
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7. A group of ships of direct fire support in the composition of the rocket boats of the project 1241.
8. To the coastline on high-speed boats, assault groups are moving forward.
9. The task of the assault detachment is to destroy enemy fire weapons leading direct fire, and to ensure, together with the air tactical assault force, landing and operations of manipulator groups and defensive groups.
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11. Machine gunner militants changes firing position.
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14. From the sea, Ka-27PS helicopters are approaching the coast, disembarking pickup teams.
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21. Helicopters Mi-8MTV-5 with a tactical airborne assault consisting of two assault troop mouths of a brigade of marines.
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27. The large landing ships "Kaliningrad" and "Azov" carry out fire support for the actions of a tactical airborne assault by firing a blow with the use of multiple launch rocket systems of the A-215 Grad-M complex at locations of militants.
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30. The landing of the naval assault.
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"West-2013": test of combat capability
On September 27 in Moscow, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, met with military observers from leading Russian media and members of the public. The meeting was devoted to the preliminary results of the West-2013 joint strategic exercise, which ended last week. Other topical issues of military construction were also discussed. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, First Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army Arkady Bakhin, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov, Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov.
Both the completed doctrine, and the sudden inspections of the troops, which were quite a few this year, were carried out in order to understand what our defense potential actually is, what tasks our units and formations can cope with, and what state they are in. Moreover, as the Minister of Defense noted, these checks are constantly being carried out - at the level of formations, unions, clans and types of the Armed Forces. Simply, the most ambitious of them are widely publicized. So, last week, in the course of one of these checks, almost 200 Air Force planes flew into the air, everything went off in working mode.
The results of these inspections and exercises, said Army General Sergei Shoigu, indicate that the public opinion about the loss of combat capability of our army is erroneous.
“We are not so weak, we are not as weak as anyone would like,” the Russian defense minister emphasized.
As a result of the verification activities carried out this year, the Ministry of Defense will have a complete picture of the current state of the Armed Forces and other components of the state’s defense capability. And most importantly, it will become clear what specific measures need to be taken to further increase the combat capability of the army and navy.
What problems in the training of troops were identified during the SSU "West-2013"?
Answering this question from Red Star, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, noted that these problems were due to the fact that the previous such exercise, West-2009, was conducted four years ago. During this time, views have changed on the forms and methods of conducting military operations. Accordingly, the methods and forms of preparing and conducting a joint special operation required additional research, which was carried out during the Zapad-2013 SSU.
The Chief of the General Staff recalled that none of the states of the region was considered as an adversary - according to the exercise scenario, illegal armed groups acted as an enemy on the territory of Belarus and the Kaliningrad Region, which were destroyed by joint actions of the Regional Group of Forces (Forces).
Preparations for the Zapad-2013 SSU began as early as March of the 2013 of the year, from March to September more than 150 conducted various exercises of military units and military units, staff training of governing bodies, said Army General Valery Gerasimov. So, the troops and headquarters approached the training prepared and managed to accomplish the assigned tasks.
With the equipment of the Armed Forces more and more modern means of armed struggle, an increase in the range of target destruction at sea and on land and, accordingly, a multiple increase in the area where exercises are held, training activities for the troops become less spectacular, said Army General Sergei Shoigu.
As one example, the Minister of Defense cited exercises at the Ashuluk training ground, which took place this spring. Then they were tested in the operation of the air defense and missile defense systems. In the course of the exercise, calculations protecting the sky of Moscow were transferred to Ashuluk, where they worked out tasks for their intended purpose: they intercepted missiles fired from strategic aircraft and other means of destruction.
“The nature of the war is changing,” stated Army General Sergei Shoigu and noted the need to move to working out new ways to conduct it.
In this regard, in the future, the number of the involved equipment and the plans of the exercises will become completely different in our Armed Forces.
In addition to the army and navy, for the first time in recent years, several other ministries and departments of the Russian Federation took part in the strategic exercise “Zapad-2013”, including their mobilization capabilities. What did this check show?
The First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Arkady Bakhin, answering this question from the Red Star, said that a feature of the Zapad-2013 exercise was that prior to the start of practical operations, troops were checked and evaluated on mobilization issues by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Energy , the regional command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in full - the Nizhny Novgorod region and on certain issues of the organization of territorial defense - Smolensk region.
Taking into account the reduction in the number of troops and base towns, changes in the approach of the military registration and enlistment offices to solving the tasks facing them were required to study the issues of interdepartmental cooperation in organizing the territorial defense of the most important facilities of the energy complex.
For many years - almost 25 years - the Ministry of Defense did not interact in these matters with a number of federal structures. This state of affairs revealed the need for changes to some planning documents during this review.
At the same time, clear interaction is maintained with regional groupings of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In addition to the central regional command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the decision of the commander-in-chief of the internal troops brought the Privolzhsky regional command in Nizhny Novgorod to the highest degree of combat readiness.
The mobilization of people in Smolensk and Nizhny Novgorod in the structure of territorial defense was organized. Those who arrived from the reserve went through a course of coordination, held joint exercises with subdivisions of internal troops.
In Nizhny Novgorod, the need was identified to make changes to a number of planning documents. But the transfer of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region to the military mode of operation was clearly and orderly. At the same time, the governor of the region, who was on vacation, nevertheless arrived at the command post, held a meeting on mobilization issues, brought the regional government to the suburban control posts. Within a few days, all components of a mobilization nature were tested. Revealed and disadvantages. For example, military-type columns, which should be formed by auto enterprises, are outdated.
As you know, during the SSU many tasks were performed in the interests of regrouping troops from the central part of Russia to the western theater, where the active phase of the exercise was carried out, using railway transport, river fleet, civil aviation. And in this transport sphere a number of mobilization documents are outdated and need to be processed.
The exercise also revealed the likelihood of problems in providing troops with fuel in a special period.
“In Soviet times, if the war was tomorrow, we knew for example that the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry would supply the Armed Forces with a certain amount of jet fuel, diesel and gasoline in these places,” the defense minister continued.
Today the situation is different - the governance structure in the country has changed.
- Today there is no Soviet Union - there are Gazpromneft, Lukoil, Rosneft ... - the head of the military department stated. - So, they should have the appropriate reserves, delivery plans and contracts concluded in advance. These companies need to know exactly how much, where and in what time they should supply us with the necessary materials.
According to him, the same applies to the Ministry of Transport, the Federal Agency for Air Transport - the Federal Air Transport Agency, the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport, Russian Railways, RusHydro and others.
- We need to build new relationships with these organizations. These questions were worked out on behalf of the Supreme Commander including during the exercise “3apad-2013”, - said Army General Sergey Shoigu.
As for the organization of territorial defense, it is also necessary to make changes here, taking into account the development of means of armed struggle, including high-precision long-range weapons.
Has the joint strategic doctrine demonstrated to the West that the Syrian option with regard to Belarus will not work?
Answering this question, Army General Sergei Shoigu said that there is no direct relationship between the “West-2013” doctrine and the Syrian problem, Syria is a separate issue.
“We — somewhere in the open part, somewhere through our bilateral closed channels — show what we see, hear and analyze what is happening there,” said the Russian Defense Minister, recalling the timely detection of ballistic missiles launched in the Mediterranean by Israel, Armavir-based radar station of the missile attack warning system of the East Kazakhstani Army.
“Literally a week later, our missile warning system recorded the launch of two more missiles, already in another water area,” said Army General Sergei Shoigu.
That is, the Russian anti-aircraft missile defense system is working reliably, and, according to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, "we are ready to react if this (rocket weapons - Auth.) Is directed against us."
At the meeting, we also talked about the new quality of human capital for the Armed Forces, about how to ensure that the smartest, most competent young people come to the army who would like to serve the motherland honestly. Speaking about this, Army General Sergei Shoigu recalled the formation of cadet schools in several regions of the country, told about plans to create a boarding school of the Ministry of Defense for gifted children. It is known that the first two scientific companies appeared in the Armed Forces. They, according to General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, showed themselves brilliantly, so it is planned to create two more. Competition in them 15 people into place; the servicemen of these companies are very seriously motivated, aimed at the result, at the service of Russia.
“I have confidence that many of them will continue to work in our structures in the future,” said the Minister of Defense.
The head of the military department also mentioned a completely different aspect of the manifestation of “human capital” in the military department, saying that last year about 112 thousands of lawsuits were filed with officers of the Ministry of Defense. This year there are about 8 thousand, that is, ten times less, and in most cases, these claims have no substantial grounds.
“There was a delay for several days of certain cash payments (allowances), or a separate element of property was not issued, and the soldier goes to court,” the head of the military department stated.
- Of course, the Ministry of Defense should do everything to ensure the military personnel with all necessary on time. But with this priyatnichestvom in the troops have to do something. But this is a question for society as a whole, - the Minister of Defense emphasized.
On September 27 in Moscow, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, met with military observers from leading Russian media and members of the public. The meeting was devoted to the preliminary results of the West-2013 joint strategic exercise, which ended last week. Other topical issues of military construction were also discussed. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, First Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army Arkady Bakhin, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov, Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov.
Both the completed doctrine, and the sudden inspections of the troops, which were quite a few this year, were carried out in order to understand what our defense potential actually is, what tasks our units and formations can cope with, and what state they are in. Moreover, as the Minister of Defense noted, these checks are constantly being carried out - at the level of formations, unions, clans and types of the Armed Forces. Simply, the most ambitious of them are widely publicized. So, last week, in the course of one of these checks, almost 200 Air Force planes flew into the air, everything went off in working mode.
The results of these inspections and exercises, said Army General Sergei Shoigu, indicate that the public opinion about the loss of combat capability of our army is erroneous.
“We are not so weak, we are not as weak as anyone would like,” the Russian defense minister emphasized.
As a result of the verification activities carried out this year, the Ministry of Defense will have a complete picture of the current state of the Armed Forces and other components of the state’s defense capability. And most importantly, it will become clear what specific measures need to be taken to further increase the combat capability of the army and navy.
What problems in the training of troops were identified during the SSU "West-2013"?
Answering this question from Red Star, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, noted that these problems were due to the fact that the previous such exercise, West-2009, was conducted four years ago. During this time, views have changed on the forms and methods of conducting military operations. Accordingly, the methods and forms of preparing and conducting a joint special operation required additional research, which was carried out during the Zapad-2013 SSU.
The Chief of the General Staff recalled that none of the states of the region was considered as an adversary - according to the exercise scenario, illegal armed groups acted as an enemy on the territory of Belarus and the Kaliningrad Region, which were destroyed by joint actions of the Regional Group of Forces (Forces).
Preparations for the Zapad-2013 SSU began as early as March of the 2013 of the year, from March to September more than 150 conducted various exercises of military units and military units, staff training of governing bodies, said Army General Valery Gerasimov. So, the troops and headquarters approached the training prepared and managed to accomplish the assigned tasks.
With the equipment of the Armed Forces more and more modern means of armed struggle, an increase in the range of target destruction at sea and on land and, accordingly, a multiple increase in the area where exercises are held, training activities for the troops become less spectacular, said Army General Sergei Shoigu.
As one example, the Minister of Defense cited exercises at the Ashuluk training ground, which took place this spring. Then they were tested in the operation of the air defense and missile defense systems. In the course of the exercise, calculations protecting the sky of Moscow were transferred to Ashuluk, where they worked out tasks for their intended purpose: they intercepted missiles fired from strategic aircraft and other means of destruction.
“The nature of the war is changing,” stated Army General Sergei Shoigu and noted the need to move to working out new ways to conduct it.
In this regard, in the future, the number of the involved equipment and the plans of the exercises will become completely different in our Armed Forces.
In addition to the army and navy, for the first time in recent years, several other ministries and departments of the Russian Federation took part in the strategic exercise “Zapad-2013”, including their mobilization capabilities. What did this check show?
The First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Arkady Bakhin, answering this question from the Red Star, said that a feature of the Zapad-2013 exercise was that prior to the start of practical operations, troops were checked and evaluated on mobilization issues by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Energy , the regional command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in full - the Nizhny Novgorod region and on certain issues of the organization of territorial defense - Smolensk region.
Taking into account the reduction in the number of troops and base towns, changes in the approach of the military registration and enlistment offices to solving the tasks facing them were required to study the issues of interdepartmental cooperation in organizing the territorial defense of the most important facilities of the energy complex.
For many years - almost 25 years - the Ministry of Defense did not interact in these matters with a number of federal structures. This state of affairs revealed the need for changes to some planning documents during this review.
At the same time, clear interaction is maintained with regional groupings of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In addition to the central regional command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the decision of the commander-in-chief of the internal troops brought the Privolzhsky regional command in Nizhny Novgorod to the highest degree of combat readiness.
The mobilization of people in Smolensk and Nizhny Novgorod in the structure of territorial defense was organized. Those who arrived from the reserve went through a course of coordination, held joint exercises with subdivisions of internal troops.
In Nizhny Novgorod, the need was identified to make changes to a number of planning documents. But the transfer of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region to the military mode of operation was clearly and orderly. At the same time, the governor of the region, who was on vacation, nevertheless arrived at the command post, held a meeting on mobilization issues, brought the regional government to the suburban control posts. Within a few days, all components of a mobilization nature were tested. Revealed and disadvantages. For example, military-type columns, which should be formed by auto enterprises, are outdated.
As you know, during the SSU many tasks were performed in the interests of regrouping troops from the central part of Russia to the western theater, where the active phase of the exercise was carried out, using railway transport, river fleet, civil aviation. And in this transport sphere a number of mobilization documents are outdated and need to be processed.
The exercise also revealed the likelihood of problems in providing troops with fuel in a special period.
“In Soviet times, if the war was tomorrow, we knew for example that the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry would supply the Armed Forces with a certain amount of jet fuel, diesel and gasoline in these places,” the defense minister continued.
Today the situation is different - the governance structure in the country has changed.
- Today there is no Soviet Union - there are Gazpromneft, Lukoil, Rosneft ... - the head of the military department stated. - So, they should have the appropriate reserves, delivery plans and contracts concluded in advance. These companies need to know exactly how much, where and in what time they should supply us with the necessary materials.
According to him, the same applies to the Ministry of Transport, the Federal Agency for Air Transport - the Federal Air Transport Agency, the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport, Russian Railways, RusHydro and others.
- We need to build new relationships with these organizations. These questions were worked out on behalf of the Supreme Commander including during the exercise “3apad-2013”, - said Army General Sergey Shoigu.
As for the organization of territorial defense, it is also necessary to make changes here, taking into account the development of means of armed struggle, including high-precision long-range weapons.
Has the joint strategic doctrine demonstrated to the West that the Syrian option with regard to Belarus will not work?
Answering this question, Army General Sergei Shoigu said that there is no direct relationship between the “West-2013” doctrine and the Syrian problem, Syria is a separate issue.
“We — somewhere in the open part, somewhere through our bilateral closed channels — show what we see, hear and analyze what is happening there,” said the Russian Defense Minister, recalling the timely detection of ballistic missiles launched in the Mediterranean by Israel, Armavir-based radar station of the missile attack warning system of the East Kazakhstani Army.
“Literally a week later, our missile warning system recorded the launch of two more missiles, already in another water area,” said Army General Sergei Shoigu.
That is, the Russian anti-aircraft missile defense system is working reliably, and, according to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, "we are ready to react if this (rocket weapons - Auth.) Is directed against us."
At the meeting, we also talked about the new quality of human capital for the Armed Forces, about how to ensure that the smartest, most competent young people come to the army who would like to serve the motherland honestly. Speaking about this, Army General Sergei Shoigu recalled the formation of cadet schools in several regions of the country, told about plans to create a boarding school of the Ministry of Defense for gifted children. It is known that the first two scientific companies appeared in the Armed Forces. They, according to General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, showed themselves brilliantly, so it is planned to create two more. Competition in them 15 people into place; the servicemen of these companies are very seriously motivated, aimed at the result, at the service of Russia.
“I have confidence that many of them will continue to work in our structures in the future,” said the Minister of Defense.
The head of the military department also mentioned a completely different aspect of the manifestation of “human capital” in the military department, saying that last year about 112 thousands of lawsuits were filed with officers of the Ministry of Defense. This year there are about 8 thousand, that is, ten times less, and in most cases, these claims have no substantial grounds.
“There was a delay for several days of certain cash payments (allowances), or a separate element of property was not issued, and the soldier goes to court,” the head of the military department stated.
- Of course, the Ministry of Defense should do everything to ensure the military personnel with all necessary on time. But with this priyatnichestvom in the troops have to do something. But this is a question for society as a whole, - the Minister of Defense emphasized.
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