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[00:00:00] We are the gods of war, behind us is strength, even though
[00:00:03] drone systems are now developing, we are still
[00:00:07] cooler.
[00:00:08] будем.
[00:00:16] And at the beginning of the issue, news from the video summaries of the Ministry of Defense for
[00:00:20] the past
[00:00:21] week.
[00:00:26] The Russian army continues to push the enemy in the Kharkiv region.
[00:00:30] Attack aircraft of the seventy-ninth regiment of the Sever grouping of troops
[00:00:33] took control of another settlement in
[00:00:36] Izyumsky district, Dolgenkaya. In the air, our
[00:00:40] drones dominate, and enemy positions are leveled to the ground by the gods
[00:00:44] of war. Our artillery works very well,
[00:00:47] the artillery of neighboring units, the guys, that is, already with experience, well, accordingly,
[00:00:51] the artillery helps directly, well, well, that is, before
[00:00:55] the attacks, we smash enemy positions, that is, strongholds and
[00:00:59] the like, but... They flee from there
[00:01:01] directly.
[00:01:04] This week, our troops liberated several more settlements, including
[00:01:08] the large settlement of Alkhovatka. Fighters of
[00:01:11] the eleventh army corps of the Northern Group of Forces
[00:01:15] under enemy fire were able to evacuate a resident of the village, Olga, with her little
[00:01:19] son. We would like to congratulate you on
[00:01:22] your arrival on Russian soil, and wish you all the best.
[00:01:26] We congratulate you that the war is finally over for you.
[00:01:30] Welcome to peace, welcome to our family.
[00:01:33] Yan, this is for you. You are our
[00:01:36] little hero. You knew about this, right? They are shameless, they hit
[00:01:40] people, they do not look, yes, that there are small
[00:01:43] children, peaceful there, uh-huh, it doesn't matter
[00:01:46] where, we hid the child, uh-huh, they take
[00:01:50] children forcibly from their homes,
[00:01:54] where their homes are, even children end up being used for organs, so that they never
[00:01:58] fear Russians.
[00:02:00] The ark with the newly acquired relics
[00:02:10] of the pious Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy continues its journey along
[00:02:13] the front-line roads in the zone of the special operation. In modern
[00:02:16] language, Dmitry Donskoy is the same assault pilot as these
[00:02:20] fighters. In 1380,
[00:02:22] he fought against a common enemy shoulder to shoulder with his
[00:02:26] warriors.
[00:02:30] all the scattered and different tribes went to the field and all
[00:02:33] returned as Russians, now we are also
[00:02:36] Kulikovo Field, now there is also a battle of
[00:02:40] spirit, and we
[00:02:41] are restoring Holy Rus' with you.
[00:02:46] And now it's time for a big report: on September 19, the country celebrated
[00:02:50] Gunsmith's Day. For this date, the watchmaker prepared
[00:02:54] a video about one of the examples of our
[00:02:57] military-industrial complex's products that is already undergoing
[00:03:00] fire tests in the special operation zone.
[00:03:06] Viewers of the First Channel have the opportunity to get acquainted
[00:03:10] with another new product of Russian artillery:
[00:03:14] this is a self-propelled artillery
[00:03:16] unit, or, more simply, a howitzer
[00:03:20] called Malva. As you can see, it appeared on
[00:03:23] the front on a wheeled chassis quite recently. In this
[00:03:27] program issue, there is a unique opportunity to get to
[00:03:30] know both the self-propelled gun itself and its
[00:03:32] crew.
[00:03:38] We are in the self-propelled howitzer division of the 273rd
[00:03:41] artillery brigade of the thirty-fourth division of the Western
[00:03:45] group of forces.
[00:03:46] западие
[00:03:53] Shot!
[00:03:56] The combat work of the Malva crew breaks through advanced fortifications.
[00:04:30] Defense is always on guard, and firing positions
[00:04:33] are covered by mobile firing
[00:04:34] groups.
[00:04:38] This is what combat work looks like on the line of contact. Our
[00:04:41] film crew is a little further back in the rear, in a relatively
[00:04:45] safe zone, where "relatively" is the key
[00:04:48] word. The risk of sudden shelling is always present, especially in
[00:04:51] such clear weather. The self-propelled gun is in position, but
[00:04:55] of course, this is not a combat sortie. Here the guys
[00:04:58] are training the crews. They are practicing all their
[00:05:02] actions so as not to waste time in the zone
[00:05:05] of direct combat contact. But what happens there also
[00:05:08] happens here. They work out the standards,
[00:05:11] shorten these... motives to spend as little
[00:05:14] valuable minutes as possible in the open
[00:05:17] space. To reduce the gun deployment time
[00:05:20] to a minimum, geo-referencing to the terrain is done in advance, and
[00:05:24] the coordinates of the alleged targets have already been entered into the onboard
[00:05:27] computer. What is the uniqueness of this footage? Here at
[00:05:31] the training combat position, we can see how the crew acts. Before
[00:05:35] this, we did not have such an opportunity, because being at
[00:05:39] combat near such a machine, to be honest, is dangerous. Sometimes it is
[00:05:42] counter-battery warfare, but most often it is a drone
[00:05:46] attack, as the guys themselves say, that during
[00:05:50] combat work they sometimes have to fight off dozens of enemy
[00:05:53] FPVs.
[00:05:56] So what kind of self-propelled gun is this? Malva, an eight-wheeled all-wheel drive
[00:06:00] Bas vehicle chassis, the same one found in some other types of heavy
[00:06:04] military equipment, for example, the S-400
[00:06:07] Triumf complex, and the gun itself is the good old Msta
[00:06:11] cannon, which has been seen many times on the fronts of the special operation,
[00:06:15] both in the self-propelled version
[00:06:16] and in the towed version.
[00:06:23] This is footage from a watch at the positions of paratrooper artillerymen
[00:06:26] near Tyomovsk in 2023.
[00:06:29] Here, of course, the shells and cartridges
[00:06:32] are already lighter, but it shoots farther, more accurately,
[00:06:35] and more confidently.
[00:06:38] Gun, fire!
[00:06:43] you have to open your mouth specially so that your ears don't get blocked,
[00:06:47] because the shot from this weapon
[00:06:49] is really very powerful, I don't even want to think about what's happening at the enemy's
[00:06:53] positions at these seconds, and this is the work
[00:06:56] of the tracked version of the Msta 275th
[00:06:59] self-propelled artillery regiment, which we observed in
[00:07:02] the Svatove direction a year later in
[00:07:04] 2024.
[00:07:09] Oh, you can even hear that power.
[00:07:12] The whistle of the shell that flew from here to
[00:07:16] the enemy's positions. Each 152 mm
[00:07:19] shell results in a fragmentation radius
[00:07:21] of 200 m,
[00:07:25] that is, it covers a solid area, and if you hit infantry with
[00:07:28] high-explosive fragmentation shells, well, in general, it will definitely sow panic
[00:07:32] and horror among
[00:07:34] the enemy.
[00:07:37] And this is already Malva with the same weapon, but on a wheeled
[00:07:40] chassis, which is a challenge of
[00:07:43] the times, making the self-propelled gun not only passable, but very mobile, especially
[00:07:46] where there is a developed network of roads.
[00:07:48] дорог.
[00:07:54] The machine is quite maneuverable, powerful,
[00:07:57] its cross-country ability is quite good, it has proven itself very well, I
[00:08:01] am a driver, and I like the new machine itself.
[00:08:04] The machine is indeed new in every
[00:08:07] respect. It is very much in demand at the front, because speed
[00:08:10] of movement, opening fire, and leaving position are now one of
[00:08:14] the decisive factors.
[00:08:17] The gun barrel rises,
[00:08:20] the turret turns,
[00:08:24] everything is ready for
[00:08:26] firing. The most curious thing is that almost all of this
[00:08:30] is done automatically. After entering the coordinates
[00:08:32] for positioning the machine itself, everything is done automatically.
[00:08:36] The loaders feed the shells
[00:08:40] and powder charges. The weight of each
[00:08:43] is about 50 kg. The powder is loaded separately, and
[00:08:47] the shell is loaded separately. Everything is supplied from
[00:08:50] the ground. Why? Because the machine itself does, of course, have
[00:08:53] ammunition storage, but they try to minimize the presence of
[00:08:56] ammunition there due to certain circumstances. Well, it's clear,
[00:09:00] safety first. If the machine is attacked from
[00:09:03] the air, for example, or in counter-battery combat, there are more chances that it
[00:09:07] will survive. This is the final training, the crew
[00:09:11] is preparing to go to the front. Roman Belozertsev, the gun commander,
[00:09:14] is from the capital of gunsmiths, the hero city of
[00:09:18] Tula. He has been at the front for only 3 months, but during this time
[00:09:21] he has already managed to work hard.
[00:09:24] I can't say the exact number of sorties, but about
[00:09:28] a thousand shells. A thousand shells in 3 months
[00:09:31] were fired by your gun, right? Yes.
[00:09:34] A thousand shells is a thousand targets or a little
[00:09:38] less? Well, it's fewer targets, about ten
[00:09:42] shells hit one target.
[00:09:44] So, in one combat operation, you manage to make that many
[00:09:48] shots? From ten to twenty.
[00:09:51] The howitzer spends no more than 15 minutes at the firing position,
[00:09:55] after which it immediately leaves for cover. Fortunately, the wheeled chassis allows
[00:09:59] this to be done quite
[00:10:00] quickly.
[00:10:03] Nevertheless, the enemy is conducting counter-battery warfare,
[00:10:06] trying to track you down, find you? Well, we have
[00:10:09] a cover group that always covers us, well, and after
[00:10:12] going to the "slurry pit", we mask
[00:10:15] our tracks. How do you ward off the "birds"? The cover group
[00:10:19] helps, we ourselves watch the air, they have already flown, we have seen them
[00:10:22] personally, of course, right next to us. Repeatedly, yes, we fight them off,
[00:10:26] we protect our weapon, uh-huh, we protect ourselves.
[00:10:30] How many at most chased you?
[00:14:59] It's still amazing how they manage to hide such a huge machine near
[00:15:03] the front line. The answer comes by itself when you look at
[00:15:06] the calloused hands of these fighters. A dugout
[00:15:10] is dug by hand for it, yes, with hands, with shovels. And how long
[00:15:13] have you been digging it? A month. That is, in advance,
[00:15:17] yes, plus logs, all of this dragged by hand, themselves,
[00:15:20] hard work, generally to the maximum. That is, before this, I thought that it was
[00:15:24] hard to dig an Msta, but the Msta is child's play.
[00:15:27] 14 meters. It seemed to me that they no longer dig more, but
[00:15:31] you bury this thing literally underground, underground, that
[00:15:35] is, it's up to the roof, yes, plus if... you lower the whole
[00:15:38] machine, you have to dig an exit
[00:15:41] for it too. Tens of cubic meters of earth,
[00:15:45] all this under constant threat from the air, but the risk is justified. This
[00:15:49] huge gun always has work to do. You are one
[00:15:52] of the most important people in this crew, the one who
[00:15:56] makes this artillery complex truly
[00:15:59] dangerous. You are the gunner, correct? What does your job involve?
[00:16:03] Aiming at the target, loading, firing,
[00:16:07] for the team
[00:16:10] to hit. The main thing, of course, for an artilleryman is hitting the
[00:16:12] target. The range of this weapon is about 25
[00:16:16] km, which is not much by the standards of recent
[00:16:20] military conflicts, but the crew assures that this distance is quite
[00:16:23] enough for them to reach the enemy. Where is this secret
[00:16:27] button? Here it is. So you shoot manually, right? Yes, the
[00:16:31] shot is fired manually. That is,
[00:16:33] the gun is aimed, adjusted, all of that.
[00:16:37] It is entered via computer, the machine aims itself, automatic loading, but
[00:16:41] a person fires the shot. How do you not go deaf here? It hits powerfully. At first
[00:16:44] it muffled, yes, it was unusual, but over time
[00:16:47] you get used to it, it's like a normal clap of hands
[00:16:50] nearby.
[00:16:58] The main type of shells are high-explosive fragmentation, but there are also
[00:17:02] guided high-precision shells like
[00:17:04] Krasnopol.
[00:17:13] But what feelings does the gunner experience when his shell
[00:17:17] hits the target, when he finds out that everything worked out?
[00:17:21] Wow. Well, to put it simply, wow. Well, of course,
[00:17:25] yes, I would like every shell to hit the target. And in general, how
[00:17:28] accurate is this system? The gun is very
[00:17:32] accurate, probably the main advantage
[00:17:34] of Malva. That is, quite
[00:17:38] accurate. Well, how many do you need, one, two, three shots at most? Well, one
[00:17:41] sighting shot, then in principle from the second it already hits exactly on
[00:17:44] target.
[00:17:46] In the crew, almost all crew numbers are interchangeable. Ilya
[00:17:50] Kartavykh is currently the loader, although he is also the commander
[00:17:53] of the self-propelled gun. I monitor the activation of
[00:17:57] the hydraulic system, directly the gun. If any
[00:18:00] errors occur with the gun, they appear on
[00:18:03] this monitor. So accordingly, I report to the gunner, the gunner.
[00:18:37] The accuracy and coolness depend on the lives of comrades and the fulfillment
[00:18:41] of the task.
[00:18:44] I understand this is a standard shot, yes. Yes,
[00:18:47] this is a shell, the sixty-fourth. This is
[00:18:50] a high-explosive fragmentation full charge
[00:18:53] G38. This is a firing range of 20 km.
[00:18:56] The shell weighs 47 kg, and
[00:18:59] the full charge is 17 kg. Let me try, nothing if
[00:19:03] I take it? Yes, of course. Oh, 17 kg, and
[00:19:06] I can feel it. Quite heavy.
[00:19:10] Now I'll try the shell, if it works,
[00:19:13] of course, I don't think I have the physical training of
[00:19:16] the guys. Oh,
[00:19:19] yes, 47 is indeed 47, a bag
[00:19:22] of cement. Well, we're used to it now, we wear
[00:19:25] armor and run around. Physically developed, yes, I see
[00:19:29] that there are no weak guys here, everyone is physically prepared,
[00:19:33] because everything is done with their own hands, and although this
[00:19:36] artillery machine was created for conducting combat operations, the designers
[00:19:40] did not forget about the comfort of the crew. We are standing
[00:19:44] outside now, it's very hot, the sun is already scorching,
[00:19:47] sweltering, I would even say, but from the cabin, strangely enough, although
[00:19:51] the engine is off, there's a coolness. Why? We also have an
[00:19:54] air conditioner installed, so it's a real air conditioner, that's right,
[00:19:58] there's an air conditioner above us, we turn it on when it's hot. The control
[00:20:01] panel is in the middle, the gray one, the first and second panels, that's the air conditioner
[00:20:05] control panel. It's a lifesaver.
[00:20:12] Andrey Kotov, a military driver, has been at the front since
[00:20:14] 2023. Before that, he worked as a milk truck driver.
[00:20:18] Everyone in the crew knows that, in addition to their accuracy, the success of the combat mission
[00:20:22] largely depends on Andrey's professional driving skills.
[00:20:25] There were times when they had to escape pursuit on punctured
[00:20:28] tires. If it punctures, we have a
[00:20:31] fuel pumping system. Here we open the valves on the tires,
[00:20:35] here are the valves, here they are, we open them, here the pumping
[00:20:38] system is also turned on with a button. So if it's
[00:20:41] not torn to shreds, you can keep going, yes, yes, yes, up to
[00:20:45] eight to ten holes, well, depending on how small they are,
[00:20:49] it should cope. Military drivers are one of the most valuable
[00:20:52] specialists at the front, especially in artillery: take at least
[00:20:56] ammunition, you can't carry shells to the front by hand, and
[00:20:59] the gun cannot be allowed to stand idle, the enemy must know
[00:21:02] its place. Here our drivers transport ammunition,
[00:21:06] in any weather, at any time of day.
[00:21:09] Hello, may I distract
[00:21:12] you, brave military driver?
[00:21:16] I talked to the guys, the artillerymen, they all
[00:21:19] say in unison that without military drivers, those
[00:21:23] who deliver supplies to the front line, their work would be simply
[00:21:26] impossible. Of course, it would be impossible, because drivers
[00:21:29] are needed to deliver ammunition, people, oh well, they are in
[00:21:33] cover, but you, it turns out, are like this in open terrain, even in an armored
[00:21:37] Kamaz, in such a, as I understand it, special artillery
[00:21:40] one, you take ammunition there, yes, of course,
[00:21:44] we risk our lives, we transport ammunition, well, is it scary?
[00:21:48] No, we're used to it.
[00:21:51] Unnoticed, very dangerous, but important driver's work, which we have been
[00:21:54] witnessing all these war years. The armor
[00:21:58] of these vehicles has already been tested in action. Here is one of
[00:22:02] the episodes when this particular
[00:22:05] truck was bringing the gun to position,
[00:22:08] a shell exploded nearby, a fragment hit,
[00:22:11] here it is,
[00:22:14] but fortunately everything turned out fine, generally without consequences.
[00:22:18] The weapon completed
[00:22:20] its combat mission. Here is another combat operation of the same
[00:22:24] artillery brigade in the Kharkiv region. The bulky, but nimble
[00:22:28] Malva emerges from cover and rushes to one of the firing
[00:22:31] positions. There are always several, so that the enemy cannot
[00:22:34] figure out from which one the firing
[00:22:37] will be conducted today.
[00:22:42] Ready, aimed,
[00:22:43] loaded.
[00:22:46] One fire, one fire, one fire, yes, gun.
[00:22:50] Shot.
[00:22:54] One
[00:22:54] to load.
[00:23:01] Shot.
[00:23:04] Shot.
[00:23:08] After hard days on the line of combat contact, the crew
[00:23:12] has the opportunity to rest in the rear. We worked with
[00:23:15] the crew, now there is an opportunity to communicate in an informal setting, I'm looking.
[00:23:50] A drawing from his son. As has happened many times before,
[00:23:53] maybe there will be another drawing here. Do you have a
[00:23:56] picture, Zhenya? Always there, always
[00:23:59] there. Again, I have the honor to
[00:24:02] present to the guys and to our viewers,
[00:24:05] I will do it now, this drawing was made
[00:24:09] by his son Egor, he is already 9 years old, yes, Zhenya, son
[00:24:13] Egor Lopatkin, 9 years old,
[00:24:15] Moscow region, sends to the valiant artillery crew
[00:24:19] such a drawing. This boy
[00:24:23] looks like you too, well, we used to run around as such boys
[00:24:26] sometimes. Of course, well, now
[00:24:30] there are probably similar joyful smiles. I hand it to the commander, I hope that
[00:24:34] this drawing, let's hang it up right away,
[00:24:40] The rear helps the front, here they constantly receive parcels, not
[00:24:43] only letters, but also warm clothes, generators, household
[00:24:47] electrical appliances and much more. Are there any
[00:24:50] unexpected bonuses, like something tasty being sent? Well,
[00:24:54] yes, even camouflage nets sometimes contain sweets.
[00:24:57] Sweets are sent? Yes, yes, sometimes they are in the nets, like
[00:25:00] an unexpected gift. So, you unroll the camouflage
[00:25:03] net,
[00:25:05] and there's a surprise there. It's already written, "Unwrap
[00:25:08] carefully." But the fighters do not
[00:25:12] live on sweets and chocolate alone. It has long been noticed that the field kitchen near
[00:25:16] the front line is the most varied and surprisingly
[00:25:18] delicious. So, now you can see
[00:25:22] what our artillerymen eat.
[00:25:25] Well, what do you have for the first course? Potato soup today.
[00:25:29] Excellent, is there meat? Yes, yes, everything as it should be. What about the second
[00:25:32] course? Pasta.
[00:25:35] Excellent, well, honestly, at the front, indeed, the best
[00:25:39] food, I think, in the rear they don't feed us as
[00:25:42] well as here, because the guys work themselves to exhaustion, so they have the right
[00:25:46] to eat well. The living conditions are generally pleasing. Normal
[00:25:50] overnight stay, food, a place to wash, do laundry, there's even a bathhouse,
[00:25:54] a very good one. How is the steam
[00:25:57] room, guys? Excellent, you can check it yourselves, it's all heated up, right?
[00:26:01] Ready? Let's see
[00:26:04] Oh, it's really hot here. Well, just like that, oh,
[00:26:08] it's a good joke, I just wanted to duck
[00:26:11] right away. It's already
[00:26:14] almost 80 degrees.
[00:26:18] In general, the guys have a bath day today for those who
[00:26:21] returned from the front line, and those who come in,
[00:26:25] they come in. Now the guys are getting ready, some
[00:26:28] come, others go,
[00:26:29] rotation.
[00:26:32] A strong household depends largely on a good commander,
[00:26:36] and he has been in the division for a long time, a veteran front-liner. Pavel
[00:26:39] Dukovich has several wounds, a medal for courage and an order
[00:26:43] of bravery. He started commanding two Msta installations,
[00:26:46] now under his command are 18 self-propelled Malva
[00:26:50] howitzers. The special military operation for me began
[00:26:53] back in February 2022, when the task was
[00:26:57] set to advance, we advanced in the position
[00:27:01] of platoon commander. We came under enemy fire,
[00:27:04] received my first wound, I was wounded in the neck, in the chest,
[00:27:08] as if a bullet passed 3 mm from
[00:27:11] the artery, there was a long treatment, well,
[00:27:15] for a long time there were moments when my arm did not heal,
[00:27:18] I think I changed three hospitals after the first wound,
[00:27:22] already in July 2022, I again
[00:27:25] continued to perform tasks, I quickly
[00:27:29] got used to it, everything adapted already took from...
[00:28:11] The crew of this Malva will soon have to go to the front again.
[00:28:14] The guys are worried, but their morale is
[00:28:17] high. Today you are leaving to perform tasks,
[00:28:21] the route is the same, the order of advance is the same, you have been
[00:28:25] there many times already, you have gotten into these troubles
[00:28:28] many times already. Observe also
[00:28:32] caution in all maneuvers, take care of yourselves,
[00:28:36] our families are waiting for us, do not tempt fate too much,
[00:28:40] but there's no need to hide, do your
[00:28:44] job, everything will be fine, it's clear that
[00:28:47] to return alive, the commander's order
[00:28:50] will be fulfilled, the fighters smile, ahead are hard combat days.
[00:28:54] weekdays, but the fire support will not let the infantry down, the enemy
[00:28:57] will not be able to find a shelter anywhere, you watched
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