The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of a training battle at a training ground near Voronezh. Engineering and sapper units of the Western Military District worked out the assault of the settlement with the use of their special equipment.
According to the legend of the lesson, on the approach to the settlement, the engineering patrol found that the road ahead was mined, and terrorists were holed up in the village, the press service of the ZVO told.
For such exercises, a whole village has been built from improvised material at a training ground in the south of the Voronezh region - it is unsightly, but with a deep ditch, a bridge and other shells necessary for engineering troops. During the training, the village is regularly demolished, but each time it is carefully restored. At the entrance there is a sign "Pear tree".
This time, Grushevoye was cleaned with the help of a mine clearance unit R-77 "Meteorite". The terrorists who were holed up in the huts were firing with might and main, they did not spare blanks, so the sappers threw a bridge over the moat, carried equipment over it, surrounded the militants from all sides, and then blew up together with the village.
- A new way of using engineering troops' equipment was applied on the basis of modern experience in conducting local conflicts, - the military noted.
The UR-77 Meteorite mine clearance unit is designed to make passages in minefields and it does it effectively. The tracked vehicle lifts the armored roof with guides. A small rocket goes into the sky with a predatory hiss, dragging a long cord stuffed with explosives. The cord falls on the minefield and explodes, causing the nearest mines to detonate. With one shot, the Meteorite paves the way for a tank column.
In our case, the rocket landed right in one of the huts. Grushevoye was released without losses.
Anton Valagin (Voronezh)
