Syria Update: Military Problem-Solving Skills of the SAA Commanding Officers
November 26, 2013
We arrived in Jobar. Syrian army troops have spent their day stuck in positional fighting there. On our way to their positions, we encountered several burnt-out remains of foreign mercenary fighters. Such is the inevitable end of those, who have arrived to make a fortune off a foreign country.
The most distinct feature of this particular city area is the density of the building structures here that makes it almost impossible to use heavy armored vehicles without moving too close to the enemy positions. To overcome this problem, our military problem-solving skills become very handy.
“It is hard to imagine! But the Syrian army soldiers’ ingenuity knows no limits. Out of this heap of concrete a ramp is going to be made, which will be used by artillery vehicles as their firing point to engage the militants. It is hard to imagine it right now, but the bulldozer is about to start the work.”
“One particularly large chunk of concrete, a beam, made the work of the bulldozer impossible. The sappers decided to blow this part of the collapsed building up.”
The following day, we arrived to witness the trial of a newly made firing point. The best weapon system to engage enemy in urban area is said to be ZSU-23-4 Shilka (Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun) Tank. However, it is lightly armored and therefore cannot carry out its missions when closing up with the terrorists. Now, thanks to this newly made knoll, Shilka would be able to engage the militants deep into their defenses and along the entire length of the enemy engagement line.
Using this new firing position proved worthwhile. This kind of experience would be used again by the Syrian army troops from now on to destroy the surrounded militant group there.
Contributors: Andrey Filatov, Vasily Pavlov, Victor Kuznetsov, Marat Musin.
ANNA-News. Damascus.
November 26, 2013
We arrived in Jobar. Syrian army troops have spent their day stuck in positional fighting there. On our way to their positions, we encountered several burnt-out remains of foreign mercenary fighters. Such is the inevitable end of those, who have arrived to make a fortune off a foreign country.
The most distinct feature of this particular city area is the density of the building structures here that makes it almost impossible to use heavy armored vehicles without moving too close to the enemy positions. To overcome this problem, our military problem-solving skills become very handy.
“It is hard to imagine! But the Syrian army soldiers’ ingenuity knows no limits. Out of this heap of concrete a ramp is going to be made, which will be used by artillery vehicles as their firing point to engage the militants. It is hard to imagine it right now, but the bulldozer is about to start the work.”
“One particularly large chunk of concrete, a beam, made the work of the bulldozer impossible. The sappers decided to blow this part of the collapsed building up.”
The following day, we arrived to witness the trial of a newly made firing point. The best weapon system to engage enemy in urban area is said to be ZSU-23-4 Shilka (Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun) Tank. However, it is lightly armored and therefore cannot carry out its missions when closing up with the terrorists. Now, thanks to this newly made knoll, Shilka would be able to engage the militants deep into their defenses and along the entire length of the enemy engagement line.
Using this new firing position proved worthwhile. This kind of experience would be used again by the Syrian army troops from now on to destroy the surrounded militant group there.
Contributors: Andrey Filatov, Vasily Pavlov, Victor Kuznetsov, Marat Musin.
ANNA-News. Damascus.
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