LIDA DISTRICT, 11 March (BelTA) – A sudden test of combat readiness has been organized in the 116th Guards Assault Airbase of the Belarusian army, BelTA has learned.
The military personnel have to accomplish unconventional tasks. They carry out flights as qualification targets to simulate an air raid by the aggressor.
Su-25, Yak-130, and L-39 aircraft are used for the combat readiness test. According to the tactic chosen by the command, the aircraft take off one by one, then pair up, and fly along the designated route. At a certain point of the route they part ways and then fly alone. The routes, the altitudes, and the action sequence are part of the instruction set.
The flights are supposed to test combat readiness at extremely low, low, and medium altitudes (up to 3,000 meters) at speeds of 600kmph and in all directions.
“Today pilots of the airbase are carrying out tasks as instructed. We are carrying out flights in order to check the combat readiness of air defense missile forces. The pilots are well-trained. We carry out such tasks regularly. It is not the first time. The tasks are interesting. Every flight has its own peculiarities. Professional training and the moral and psychological state of the pilots allow accomplishing all the assigned tasks with high quality,” a pilot of the airbase said.
He noted that the assigned tasks are interesting. “First of all, because we are working on penetrating air defenses as control targets. This is one of the fundamental moments in combat operations because the success of the entire flight and the accomplishment of the task depend on the successful penetration of air defenses. During such flights certain tactical techniques are practiced, corresponding conclusions are drawn, and methods are developed. This process allows us to improve the quality of subsequent tasks and the training and combat readiness of the flight crews,” he added.
“The task of every pilot when performing a mission is, first and foremost, to complete it in a way that allows them to return safely and hit the designated targets or complete another assigned task that may not be related to target destruction,” the pilot noted.
However, before a pilot gets down to work, up to ten specialists check the aircraft’s readiness to take off. One of them is Aleksei Vitukevich, an engineer with the technical crew in charge of preparing radio-electronic equipment. “We take care of pre-flight and post-flight preparations and inspections of the aircraft. We take a very thorough approach to inspecting aircraft for the sake of carrying out various types of tasks,” he said. “We also take steps to configure navigation, communications, and other special systems designed for carrying out tasks in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.”
“Every specialist is responsible for performing their own task. Every specialist has time allocated for performing certain types of operations. And each of them is monitored while performing certain types of operations. This is very serious hardware and requires tasks to be performed very precisely, on time, and, of course, with only positive results,” added Aleksei Vitukevich.
BelTA reported earlier that the large-scale inspection of the Armed Forces began on 16 January upon instructions from the Belarus president. The primary goal is to see an objective picture, the real state of the troops, and evaluate actions of the military personnel. This is why the events are sudden. The key peculiarity of the inspection is the way it is organized. The head of state puts military units on alert without involving the Defense Ministry and the General Staff.
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