Kilchenko Airborne Forces Biography

Three paratroopers, jumping out of the trench, crossed a small space with a zigzag and lay down. Made to battle. The appearance of targets coincides with the bang of queues. The actions of the shooters are closely observed by the commander of the parachute-long battalion of the guard, Major Sergei Kilchenko. From the flank comes a long line, as if with a hoarse tear. This is already a habit.

Over the past four years, Kilchenko spent seventeen months in hot spots. In that, for the distant summer of the year, the company under the command of Captain Kilchenko arrived in Chechnya for replacement. In Grozny, she was entrusted with the protection of the House of the Government of the Chechen Republic. In the early morning of August 6, with the support of the fire of mortars, grenade launchers and snipers near the militants, they began to storm the government house.

The battle lasted about an hour and a half and ended with the victory of the paratroopers. The next morning, the enemy resumed the assault. Having numerical superiority, the militants got to the building by meters, fixed and brought down a flurry of fire to the position of the company. The night was critical from August 7 to 8. It came to hand -to -hand combat and grenades. In the morning, 38 corpses of militants counted, among their own - only the wounded.

On average, for a day, paratroopers withstood the assaults and two per night. They saved reasonable tactics, courage and courage, mutual assistance of officers and soldiers. Once, being under the enemy dense fire, Captain Kilchenko made a non -standard decision to use in close combat, in the city, combat landing vehicles and focused fire of manual grenade launchers. At night, the commander gathered a group of grenade launchers and showed them the identified positions of the militants.

Under the cover of a rifle fire, grenade launchers struck them from different positions on them. In the afternoon, the officers rose with driver mechanics and gunner-operators on the roof of the house and indicated to them goals that could only be impressed from the guns. Then the company opened the machine gun and machine -gun fire at neighboring houses, not allowing the Chechen grenade launchers to raise their heads.

At that time, the BMD jumped out into the yard, made shots on the identified goals and again quickly went into shelter. The tactics of creating dense fire in a narrow direction turned out to be very effective and allowed to actively defend, imposing its will to the enemy. The order to move was received only on the night of August 9. Skillfully built combat order, the commander organized a breakthrough.

The company came out of the encirclement without loss. Those days only strengthened Kilchenko’s confidence that the charter is not a dogma, but a guide to a creative, initiative action. When the division commander Major General Yuri Krivosheev at one of the meetings turned to the officers with a proposal to state his experience, his vision of the specifics of hostilities in the city, Sergei reacted seriously to this work.

And he is not alone. The result of a collective search was a whole system of preparing units for the implementation of a counter-terrorist operation, which later formed the training program for all airborne troops. But in any war they study continuously. Therefore, analyzing the tactics of conducting fighters, Major Sergei Kilchenko today pays special attention to classes on actions in combat security, intelligence, carrying out services at checkpoints and conducting search activities.

The officer considers the solitary training of a soldier as before. The logic is simple - the actions of the department, platoon, company depend on the training of each paratrooper. And especially from his fire training. The soldier learns to reload the weapon, equip the shops with cartridges right at the turn of the fire. More often changes the position, and all this in conditions of imitation shelling.

After the paratrooper gets used to a similar situation, he will be akin to the weapon, from a half -look he will learn to choose a profitable firing position, skillfully occupying it, the task is complicated. We teach him to act as part of a combat three. And we select it arbitrarily. The composition may include a machine gunner, a grenade launcher, a sniper or only three shooters.

The task is not to create a specific combat unit. It is more important to teach soldiers coordinated actions in various situations of fire fighting. As a result of training, the paratroopers are literally transformed before our eyes, gain more and more skills to cover each other with fire, adjust the shooting, detect goals, classify them and give target designations.

Moreover, interaction is carried out thanks to the conventional signs that are developed in the unit. Here are also the requirements that the battalion commander makes for each subordinate. The junior commander is obliged to be able to shoot from all types of weapons of the department, to work on communications. Sniper - own a grenade launcher, a grenade launcher - a machine gun.

After all, the battle is unpredictable. There are no extra skills and knowledge in it. Not a single lesson is built on the principle: “They came, shot, left! On the way, various introductory ones are worked out. At the shooting range, observation posts are certainly exhibited. Suggesters do not leave their commanders, with whom, if necessary, they will go into battle.

Communication is carried out only in tables.At first it was very difficult. But today, radio operators understand the commanders at a glance, on the air they communicate only with codes from the table, which was learned by the Zubok. Combat study reaches even greater intensity with the start of classes on the combat coordination of platoons and mouths, which end in mandatory exercises with combat shooting.

And here the paratroopers have innovations. Before leaving for driving or shooting, combat vehicles deliver units to the place of class on the armor. At the same time, paratroopers learn observation, and if necessary, quick hurry. The issue of preparing platoon commanders in an adjacent specialty of an art -corrector is unusually resolved. After the course of the theory that the officers were engaged in the course of the solitary training of soldiers, they need practice.

But each artillery shot costs a penny. The way out was found: a mortar calculation is given in the field. The mortars work out the shooting for visible purposes, and the officer for breaks adjusts the fire, receiving artillery fire control skills.

And so - every day. The rhythm of combat training is very tense, often at the limit of human capabilities. The paratroopers have been in the field for more than a month. To life in such conditions adapted. The psychological barrier called “barracks comfort” has been overcome. Now they have a tent at their disposal, the “bourgeois”, the water in the washbasin with the ice, the power only from the buttons is special attention - personal hygiene.

The fact that planned combat studies are extremely close to the realities of the battle, is not only the guard of Major Sergei Kilchenko. The commander’s will of the unity of unity is not enough for this - active like -minded people are necessary. The battalion commander has them. Officers Sergey Kataev, Vyacheslav Korshunov, Dmitry Rudnev, Alexei Yakovlev, many contractions soldiers have not only combat experience, but also a developed, heightened sense of responsibility for personal training, for the true combat reign of the unit.