Precision Fire Strikes on Terrorist Defense Positions
Jobar, Syria. It is positional fighting that is taking place here right now. SAA commanding officers’ main routine operations have as their objective the destruction of constantly emerging new terrorist firepoints.
SAA Officer: “We need to strike in depth over there along that alley. Two or three penetrating rounds between those trees deep into the city block. Let’s strike with armor-piercing ones. They will penetrate through two or three houses.”
In the meantime, while the problem of the illegal military groups in the area is being decided in the higher quarters, the army troops on the ground have to ensure the safety of civilians traveling on that road that lies beyond this city block. The houses that run along the road are controlled by the troops. But just a few walls and partitions away from them there are militants over there. Battle tanks would need to strike with great precision to make sure that they did not harm civilians and friendly forces and destroyed the terrorists.
Since there is no direct combat contact with the enemy at the moment, this particular mission is best fulfilled by the SAA veteran battle tank, T-55. T-55’s rifled gun is best suited for deadly precision strikes on the targets.
SAA Officer: “Magnificent!”
Having finished its job on the first group of targets, the battle tank changes its position.
The distance between us and the militants’ defense positions is about 400 meters. All that is left for us to do now is to trust the SAA commanding officers on the ground here: If they do not take cover, it means that everything is alright and we can continue with our work.
The battle tank takes its firing point and turns its gun in the direction of Harasta city. The voice command to open fire is given in coordination with the spotters so that the fire strikes would not hurt any civilians. The second salvo was slightly stalled because of the warning that came from the spotter about an approaching civilian transport on the road. The firing resumed as soon as the cars on the road had passed by.
Another spot, another stop for today. I had no time to mount my camera on top the battle tank’s turret. So, I mounted it right on its front hull. There is no view of the firing gun in the next video footage but the shock wave generated by the strike came out to be pretty nice.
A couple of high precision strikes had made our day’s work accomplished for that particular day.
Andrey Filatov, Victor Kuznetsov, Marat Musin.
ANNA-News. Damascus, Syria
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