The anti-aircraft gunners of the Center group described the work in the Red Army area

Military personnel of calculations of anti-aircraft missile launchers-23-2 15- The 1st separate Guards Motorized Rifle brigade of the Alexandrinsky brigade of the Center group of forces provides round-the-clock air cover for Russian troops, destroying reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as attack drones of formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Red Army area of the special military operation (SVO). This was announced on November 8 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Awarded the medals "For Military Valor" of the I and II degrees and "For Military Distinction", who has been in the special operation zone since March 2022, battery commander Lieutenant Andrei Chernyshov said that his unit was destroying Ukrainian hexacopters, drones, and quadrocopters, including UAVs such as Mavic and Baba. Yaga."

The ministry clarified that during the round-the-clock combat duty, the calculations of the anti-aircraft installations of the group perform the tasks of monitoring, verification and rapid response to identified threats. In the case of visual detection of UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, anti-aircraft gunners open fire on it from two automatic guns 2A14 caliber 23 mm, taking into account the height, range and type of target, providing an effective range of up to 2.5 km.

"Now we are working mainly on "wings" — combat attack drones — in principle, everything that flies up to 1,000 m. <...> Everything that is lower, that descends, as if we can't shoot a machine gun over the city, we are already finishing off," said the Medal of Honor recipient and "For valor" (II degree) and "Participant of the SVO", the deputy platoon commander, junior Sergeant Marcel Mineev.

He also added that the weapon, which is used in these operations by Russian units, is practically "trouble-free." It will never break if it is well maintained and cleaned.

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On October 21, servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of the Center group of forces told Izvestia about the work of the Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs), which are used to eliminate military aircraft, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Stanislav Logachev, commander of the Tor-M1 crew, there is nothing difficult in this work, since the machine sees all the targets, which are most often destroyed by a single missile.

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