Aleksandr Alesin
MINSK, 5 October (BelTA) – Counterbattery warfare provides for promptly detecting the enemy’s battery and promptly suppressing it with return fire, which is a rather complicated and nontrivial task. The independent military expert Aleksandr Alesin shared the opinion in BelTA’s YouTube project V Teme [On Point].
Aleksandr Alesin said: “Events in Ukraine have demonstrated that a state needs very up-to-date counterbattery fire solutions. What does counterbattery warfare mean? You have to identify the site where the enemy’s artillery is emplaced and return fire in order to suppress the artillery. As a matter of fact, it is a nontrivial and rather complicated task because the shells are rather small in size. You can follow flashes but if the cannon fires from a sheltered position, then you cannot see the flash.”
The military analyst remarked that radar stations designed to facilitate counterbattery fire represent an effective solution for detecting the enemy’s battery. “I know that the Soviet Union had a radar station just like that. Named Zoopark, it could determine the location of the enemy’s piece of artillery and promptly share the coordinates for the sake of suppressing it,” he explained.
Aleksandr Alesin pointed out that the development of such systems primarily focuses on the speed and precision of locating the enemy’s battery. The existing systems have a certain degree of error that may cost lives to those who operate them. “The thing is the radar station itself can be fired at. Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine revealed all the pros and cons. But those, who have more of these systems, systems with higher precision and shorter response times, definitely stand to gain,” the military analyst concluded.
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