Combat Arm of the Russian Ground Forces for missiles and artillery
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The Missile Troops and Artillery (MT & A), (Russian: Ракетные войска и артиллерия, romanized: Raketnyye voyska i artilleriya – РВиА) are a Combat Arm of the Russian Ground Forces, They are the primary means of providing fire on the enemy during combined-arms operations.
They are designed to perform the following main tasks:[1]
achieving and keeping fire superiority over the enemy;
defeat of its means of nuclear attack, manpower, weapons, military and special equipment;
disruption of troops and weapons’ control systems, reconnaissance and electronic warfare;
destruction of long-term defence installations and other infrastructure;
disruption of operational and military logistics;
weakening and isolation of the second echelons and reserves of the enemy;
destruction of tanks and other armoured vehicles of the enemy breaking into the depth of defence;
cover of open flanks and junctions;
participation in destruction of aircraft and amphibious assault forces of the enemy;
remote mining of areas and facilities;
light support of night actions of troops;
smoke-screening, blinding of enemy targets;
distribution of propaganda materials, etc.
Organisationally the MT & A consist of missile, rocket, artillery brigades, including high-power mixed, artillery battalions, rocket artillery regiments, separate reconnaissance battalions, as well as artillery of combined-arms brigades and military bases.[1]
Further development and increase of combat capabilities of the MT & A of the GF are put into life by means of creating reconnaissance-fire units, including on interim basis, ensuring defeat of targets in real time, equipment of formations and units of the MT & A with high-precision weapons, increasing of firing range and power of the ammunition used, and automation of processes for preparation and firing.[1]
Amongst the oldest combat branches of the Ground Forces with a history dating to 1392, its service anniversary is marked on Missile Troops and Artillery Day, November 27, honoring the gunners and MRL operators who in 1942 fired the first shots of the artillery counterattacks during the long Battle of Stalingrad against the German Sixth Army.
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