The number of deliveries of engineering equipment to the Strategic Missile Forces has increased by 3 times
Recently, the volume of supplies of engineering equipment and engineering property to military units of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) increased by 3 times compared with previous years.
The head of the RVSN engineering service, Colonel Dmitry Evmenenko, reported that in 2010 more than 80 units of engineering equipment and more than 100 tons of engineering property were supplied to the Rocket Forces, which significantly exceeds the supplies of previous years. Similar figures for the volume of supplies of engineering equipment and engineering property to military units of the Strategic Missile Forces were achieved in the 2011 year.
At present, representatives of military units of the Strategic Missile Forces at central and district engineering bases have basically completed work on the selection of engineering equipment for the troops.
With the active participation of the officers of the engineering service of the Strategic Missile Forces, the introduction of promising engineering weapons to the troops to increase the maneuverability and survivability of new combat missile systems, including the engineering support and camouflage machines, as well as the remote mine clearance machines, is being carried out. The delivery to the troops of engineering and camouflage machines, which began with 2009, led to the introduction of new concealment and imitation techniques used by personnel on combat duty in mobile-based missile systems. This, in turn, made it possible to reduce tenfold the human labor costs for performing these tasks.
The main tasks assigned to the engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces are engineering reconnaissance of the area and objects, fortification equipment of objects, positions and areas occupied by units and subunits, preparation and maintenance of combat patrol routes, field positions, movement routes and maneuver routes of units and subunits, Hiding and imitating positions, areas and important objects.
Currently, the engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces are armed with such basic models of equipment as engineering obstacles, universal road machines, excavators, automobile cranes, and various electrical equipment.
Military personnel and engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces units and units took an active part in activities to eliminate and localize wildfires in the regions of Central Russia in August 2010. Five military men who distinguished themselves in the course of fighting fires were awarded state awards - the Orders of Courage.
In addition, in October 2010, a consolidated demining group, formed of combat engineers, in two districts of the Kirov region, successfully completed the task of detecting and destroying more than 3800 ammunition from the Great Patriotic War. Even more 700 ammunition of the times of the Great Patriotic War with the participation of sappers of the Strategic Missile Forces was found and destroyed in the Kirov region in May-June 2011 of the year. As we can see, military equipment is also finding civilian use.
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