Amphibious assault landing
September 14, I happened to be present at one of the stages of the exercises of the coastal forces and the Pacific fleet in Kamchatka.
The scene of action is Zavoyko Bay (Avacha Bay).
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The participants are the 3 th Marine Regiment, the 155 Brigade of the Marine Corps and the Pacific Fleet ships.
The task is to work out a long maritime transition (Vladivostok - Avacha Bay) and the landing of an amphibious assault on an unequipped coast.
The main features of the exercises:
- for the first time such a long maritime transition with troops on board (landing assault battalion of the 155 Brigade of the Marine Corps (Vladivostok) with reinforcement equipment) was worked out
- paratroopers landed not on the usual training grounds, where they undergo regular training, but on the coast unknown to them.
The numerical strength of the landing party is 520 people, the numerical strength of the defenders (a company of marines of the 3 regiment (Kamchatka) - 62.
Before landing, artillery and aviation strikes along the coast. Naturally, no one shot at living people, so a lot of imitation bombings were carried out.
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In this place, the sappers laid a charge from the heart - the funnel was deeper than one and a half meters :)
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In the mouth of the Avacha Bay, a large landing ship appears. 775 / III Peresvet. Vilyuchinsky volcano in the background
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In the meantime, an airborne landing is being carried out from two helicopters that land an assault group, ensuring the success of the first echelon of an amphibious assault. It binds the defenders into battle, preventing them from bringing down all the firepower to those who enter from the sea.
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While the assault team leads the battle, diverting the defenders, an engineering and sapper group disembarks from the motorboats ashore, which must demine the passage ways for the equipment.
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After receiving a signal about the demining of the coast from Peresvet, the landing of the first echelon of the landing force, a company of marines on armored personnel carriers, begins, the task of which is to capture the landing point
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In the background, one of the landing ships is a road sweeper, pr. 1258 RT-471
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To cover the landing, the assault group and sappers abundantly “abused” smoke, so visibility deteriorated greatly
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Medium floating conveyor comes ashore - PTS-2
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Large landing ship pr.775 / II "Admiral Nevelskoy" begins the landing of the second echelon landing
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Another PTS-2 goes ashore
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On board - mortar
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Deployment starts immediately.
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A large landing ship Ave. 1171 "Nikolai Vilkov" with the third echelon of the landing force, in which the main forces are located, approaches the shore.
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The ship becomes an emphasis and begins unloading equipment
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Actually, the first stage of the exercise was completed at this point, and at the second stage, combat firing was planned at the training ground. The commander of the coastal troops praised the landing on the rating "good", because there were small overlays like the BTR driver stuck in the second echelon due to the inept actions. The guy drove at an angle on a hillock and sat on his bottom. The other car took off a few minutes, of course, but the estimate for disembarking was lowered
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By the way, according to theoretical calculations, the possible losses of those coming from such landings are up to 40%, and those of the defenders are up to 60% of personnel.
Various photos of the participants of the action:
Small anti-submarine ship pr.1124M "Ust-Ilimsk"
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Small rocket ship pr.12341 "Spill" on the background of the Vilyuchinsky volcano
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MT-LBM 3 regiment of marines in defensive positions
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The upgraded BTR-80K 155 Brigade of Marines. These machines (BTR-80, BTR-80K) are new, arrived in the 2010 part of the year. In general, in the brigade all the wheeled vehicles are new (URALs, communication vehicles, etc.)
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Anti-aircraft gunners
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Artillery Division
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Signaller commander battalion assault battalion that made the landing
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Unfortunately, there was practically no time to talk with officers and soldiers, because Marines immediately descend to the landfill. But still I managed to ask something:
- in the 3 regiment of the marine corps (Kamchatka) the proportion of contract soldiers and conscripts 20 and 80% are now recruiting again for the contract service. The money allowance of the contractor from 18 (only arrived in Kamchatka, no allowances) to 32 (long served, "northern", etc.) thousand rubles. For most of the officers and family contractors, service housing is provided, 2 apartment buildings have recently been built for this purpose. The barracks in 2004-2006 were rebuilt according to the federal target program for contract soldiers, therefore there is a Kubrik system everywhere (room for 4-s people).
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