Sunday, November 19, 2023

2nd Army Corps Pre-Deployment Report

2nd Army Corps Pre-Deployment Report

Deployment Overview

The 2nd Tank Battalion and 3rd Tank Battalion of the Chernarus 3rd Tank Brigade are preparing for deployment to the standard forward zone deployment in northwestern Chernarus. This deployment will serve as a temporary marshaling point for combat operations in the region. The 3rd Battalion of the Chernarus 20th Separate Mechanized Cavalry Regiment has been moved to a reserve role for emergency use.

Intelligence Summary

Chernarus 2nd Army Corps intelligence indicates that enemy forces are planning to deploy between two and four mixed brigades to the region. These forces are expected to include heavy tracked and light wheeled armor, Russian militia, Russian naval infantry special forces, and Spanish-speaking regulars. Enemy operatives have been training armed civilians for use as combat auxiliaries and engaging in electronic media warfare, criminal activities, and violence to intimidate the local populace.

Terrain Assessment

The region is characterized by large expanses of flat terrain, which will pose significant challenges for friendly forces. Infantry casualties are expected to be high due to the long standoff distances that will be encountered. Additionally, winter weather has already arrived in the region, and up to half of combat operations could be conducted in blizzard conditions.

Force Considerations

The available forces are insufficient to cover the entire frontage of the region, so mobility will be crucial in preventing enemy advances. Friendly forces will need to be agile and adaptable to effectively counter enemy threats in this challenging environment.

Recommendations

Emphasize mobility training and tactics to maximize maneuverability in the open terrain.

Develop contingency plans for operations in blizzard conditions.

Employ reconnaissance and surveillance assets to identify and track enemy movements.

Utilize close air support and indirect fire to suppress enemy positions.

Coordinate closely with Chernarus Coastal Operations Group to ensure a unified response to enemy threats.

Separate Tank Brigade



Saturday, October 21, 2023

Basya Melnyk in October, 1942: Mistress of Armor Mountain

From the Facebook page of Vasily Sarychev. In search of lost time

Translated. Edited.

Posted here for archival reasons, because Facebook wants to remove it.

The girl in the picture is Brest resident Basya Melnik. After her, there were no diaries or anyone’s memories left - only this photo from the German registration sheet. Basya was killed in the Bronnaya Gora tract in October 1942, among 17,000 prisoners of the Brest ghetto (in total, about 50,000 were shot here). 

Another 10,000 Jews of the city died earlier, in the first year of the occupation. Of the entire huge Brest community imprisoned in the ghetto, nineteen people survived.

The most terrible document ever seen is a sheet of the Book of Registration and Control of Population Movements of Brest, kept in the regional archive, which was kept by the city government during the occupation. The line dated October 15, 1942 says: Poles - 15,829, Belarusians - 4,709, Russians - 2,342, Ukrainians - 1,169, Jews - 16,934, various - 88. 

The next day there were no Jews. The clerk's hand automatically brought up the usual list of ghetto residents, but he was corrected. Behind this number crossed out with two horizontal lines is the entire horror of what happened. Further and until the end of the book, a dash was placed under the column “Jews”. 

October 16, 1942 - DAY TO DAY 75 YEARS AGO - the Jewish population of Brest ceased to exist.

Freight trains packed with people were sent from the siding between the city and the fortress. The echelons moved to the Bronnaya Gora station and then along the branch line allocated by the Germans several hundred meters to the northwest. The Nazis forced those leaving the carriages to take off their clothes and take them along a narrow corridor of barbed wire to a clearing with already dug holes...

This carefully fenced clearing was already being talked about in the surrounding villages: it could only be that the Germans were preparing to build a secret facility. Signs were posted at the approaches: “Danger to life! It is prohibited to go further! Patrols shoot without warning! In the summer, villagers were driven into the forbidden territory and ordered to dig several huge rectangular holes. Those who dug had no idea what these pits were intended for...

Witness Roman Novis worked as the head of the Bronnaya Gora railway station before the war; during the occupation he was transferred by the Germans to the position of switchman. 

From his testimony:

“...The carriages of the arriving trains were closed. All 5 trains were supplied to the branch line, which departs from the Bronnaya Gora station... at a distance of 250-300 meters from the central road. Near the branch, where 6 large pits were prepared in advance, each approximately 25 to 30 meters long, 10-12 meters wide and 4 meters deep, citizens were unloaded. Corpses were also thrown out of the carriages. I believe that the dead could only appear from exhaustion and severe pressure, especially with little air access.

Citizens unloaded from the carriages were forced to take off their outer and underwear, i.e. Everyone, men, women and children, stripped naked. After this, the fingers were examined and the rings were removed. After such a thorough check, the naked people were taken one by one to the pits and lowered down the stairs. In the pits they were placed face down, close to each other, and when the row was completely filled, they were shot from machine guns. After this, the second and third rows were placed in the same way until the hole was filled. I personally saw all the bullying and executions of citizens, I heard their groans, the screams of children, women, men: the railway switches and the booth where I was were no further than 250 meters from the pits...

...In March 1944, the Germans brought about 100 free citizens on foot. I don't know where they come from. They were placed in a camp at the Bronnaya Gora station and were kept under strict surveillance. At the beginning of May 1944, these people excavated holes near the railway line, in which the executed citizens, previously delivered by train, were placed. During excavations, corpses were burned on site. The Germans dismantled 48 military barracks to burn the corpses. In addition, they apparently used some kind of liquid. I conclude from the fact that when observed at night, a blue fire was visible. During the burning of corpses, an unbearable smell was felt in the village of Bronnaya Gora... The burning continued for 13-14 days. They burned continuously, day and night.

...After finishing the work of excavating and burning the corpses of the party of 100 driven citizens, I did not see anyone. I believe that they were also shot and burned.

In total, 186 carriages with Soviet citizens arrived at the Bronnaya Gora station and were shot. The trains were sent back to their place of departure. On the way back, the carriages contained clothes from those who had been shot.

I was on good terms with the station chief, Hailem, and he shared a few things with me during conversations. So he said that in total more than 48 thousand Soviet citizens were brought and shot. Heil also reported that the Germans sent 2 large passenger cars containing gold coins and gold items from the scene of the execution in 1943.”

The destruction of the Brest community took place not only on Bronnaya Gora. The executions were carried out directly in the Brest ghetto (along Karbysheva Street), in the southern suburbs, in the fortress, on Rechitsa in the area of ​​the eighth fort... Random witnesses who managed to survive revealed the terrible truth to people.

It is a known fact that 200 girls from the Brest ghetto were brought to Belsky’s estate (the area of ​​the current Leninsky village near Zhabinka). Young Jewish women were settled in barracks and used in peat mining and in the fields. In the fall of 1942, a large group of German soldiers arrived. The estate was surrounded by a tight ring, the girls and several dozen other Jewish families brought in the car were brought to a huge freshly dug hole at the end of the alley, forced to strip naked and began to be shot...

The non-Jewish population behaved differently towards Jews. This was a certain moment of truth, a manifestation of the measure of the soul. Brest residents Pyotr Grigoriev, Pelageya Makarenko, the Golovchenko spouses, Floria Budishevskaya, the Kurianovich spouses and many others who remained unknown, risking their lives, hid and looked after the doomed. “He who saves one life saves the whole world,” is a saying from the Hebrew Bible engraved on the Righteous Among the Nations medal.

There were examples of the opposite kind. 

From the report of the Brest-Litovsk gendarmerie dated November 8, 1942: 

“...The sympathy of the local population for the Jews during the action against them in October 1942 was very great. Over the past month, it has been established that the population no longer fears execution. (Rumors spread throughout the city that after the Jews they would deal with the Russians, and then with the Poles and Ukrainians. - V.S.) Now the local population is especially diligent in helping to locate the Jews who have taken refuge in the forests.”

That autumn, the extermination of the Jewish population was carried out everywhere in the occupied territories of the Brest region. During the days of the Kobrin punitive expedition, when the doomed were driven through the streets, several children escaped from the column. 

Miraculously, they bypassed the chain of encirclement, dived into the opening of a stone fence and disappeared. The children hid in the park next to the church on Pervomaiskaya Street, where priests discovered them at night. Seven more frightened children were holding onto the coattails of a boy of about eight years old. The priests sheltered them in their plebania.

The rumor that Jewish children were being hidden in the church spread to nearby houses. Parishioners carried food and clothes. But someone betrayed the compassionate priests. They were shot right at the walls of the church - priests Vladislav Grobelny, Jan Volsky and eight children, to whom the ministers gave several days of life at such a high price.

Another terrible fact was told by a random witness to the extermination of Jews near Chernavchitsy. The execution was over, everyone was dead, and the wind blew across the field the photographs that the victims carried with them as their most precious possessions.

©Vasily Sarychev

#brest #in_search_of_lost_time #history #sarychev #vasily_sarychev #old_brest 

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

List of Arma 3 Scenarios by Type and Location

 Mobile Warfare (Summer) (Motorized Rifle Battalion   Wide Area Operations)

Rosche 

Rosche

Leskovets (2)

Leskovets

Werferlingen (2)

Zagorsk

Korsac 

South Chernarus

Mobile Warfare (Winter) (MRB   WAO)

Werferlingen (2)

South Chernarus

Light Infantry

Chernarus (2)

Livonia

Summa

Beketov (2)

Gabreta

Sumava

Light Infantry (Winter)

Chernarus (2)

Summa

Amphibious Naval Infantry

Altis

Maksnieki

Virolahti

Armavir

Amphibious Naval Infantry (Winter)

Altis

Parachute/Air Assault

Malden

Saturday, October 14, 2023

NOBODY AND NOTHING... “WE WILL STAND TO THE DEATH”

 Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

From the V Kontakte page of THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

three hours ago · from Sergey Veter

NOBODY AND NOTHING......

“WE WILL STAND TO THE DEATH”

In memory of those who defended Moscow in all directions

The situation in the main strategic direction, to the west of Moscow, was expressed by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief in his radiogram,sent on October 8, 1941 to the surrounded troops, but essentially nowhere, as follows: “...There is no one and nothing to defend Moscow. I repeat: there is no one and nothing.”

The Red Army in this direction ceased to exist. She was - and she is not! Moscow was left without protection. It would seem that’s it! Catastrophe! Twice in Russian history of the 17th - 19th centuries, foreign hordes visited Moscow. But these, as they say, were flowers. Moscow was revived again and again, and its shrines were preserved. Now, according to Hitler's directive, Moscow and its population had to be wiped off the face of the earth - flooded. Fortunately (for the Germans, of course), German engineers participated in the creation of the Moscow “Big Volga” Hydraulic System in the 30s. They may have suggested this sacramental thought to the Fuhrer.

And now Moscow stands on the brink of destruction. It would have been enough for the 41st Motorized Corps from Reinhardt’s Third Tank Group, which was not busy blocking the Soviet troops surrounded in the “cauldron,” to move along the Volokolamsk Highway to Moscow, and it would have entered it. Even before the liquidation of the “cauldron”, this corps captured Sychevka on October 10th. From there, in principle, there were two ways: one - to Staritsa and then through Zubtsov to Kalinin. the other - to Pogoreloye Gorodishche, Shakhovskaya, Volokolamsk and Moscow.

Let's imagine this scenario for a moment. From Sychevka the Germans moved to Pogoreloe Gorodishche, then through Shakhovskaya they reached Volokolamsk. The unfinished Volokolamsk Fortified Region (UR) was at that time still, essentially, under the control of the Moscow Military District. On October 10, the order to create the 5th Army, intended to fill the Mozhaisk defense line, was still being prepared. General Rokossovsky had just, on October 9, been flown out from near Gzhatsk. His headquarters, that is, the headquarters left in the encirclement of the 16th Army, continued to emerge from the encirclement, and he only emerged from the encirclement on October 12th. For three days Rokossovsky was an army commander without a headquarters. On the 13th, after the headquarters of the 16th Army left the encirclement, Zhukov assigned the Volokolamsk UR to the 16th Army. And only on the 14th the formation of the new 16th Army began. In Volokolamsk, the 316th Infantry Division, arriving here from the Northwestern Front, was unloading from its trains. She fully arrived in Volokolamsk on October 12th. And she still had to urgently equip at least field fortifications in the unfinished fortified area. And there was no 16th Army here yet - it had to be created anew.

The German 41st Motorized Corps is a corps with tank and motorized divisions moving in front.

And he, quite possibly, could unexpectedly appear in Moscow in a day or two. The commander of the Moscow Military District, General Artemyev, sent an infantry school regiment, a battalion of the 108th reserve regiment, and two batteries of anti-aircraft guns to the Volokolamsk UR. He had nothing else. Could they have been a serious obstacle to the German motorized corps? In Moscow, German tanks could appear as unexpectedly as they appeared in Yukhnov and Vyazma. Further, the German corps could act according to circumstances. Could get a foothold on the highway. And two days later, having completed the liquidation of the “cauldron”, more reinforcements would arrive - tanks, first from the 6th, 7th tank divisions of the 3rd tank group, and then from the 2nd, 5th, 10th. 11th. divisions. Well, I don’t even want to imagine what’s next. But the disaster did not happen!

There was such a case in our history. In October 1812, Napoleonic hordes settled in Moscow. When there was no longer anything to plunder in the capital, they remembered the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Napoleon instructed his chief of staff, Marshal Berthier, to send a detachment there. There were no Russian troops at the Lavra. On October 1 (!) the detachment of Colonel Duke de Montemar moved towards the Lavra. Twice the French went to capture the monastery - and did not reach it. The first time we walked about 10 miles and got lost. We returned to Moscow. Napoleon was very unhappy. A week later we were on our way again. But such a thick fog fell that nothing could be seen two steps away. The further we walked, the thicker the fog became. The fog stayed all day and the next. This time Napoleon, only with sarcasm, spoke about the Russian climate. That was the end of the matter.

And now the German motorized corps did not go to Moscow, it went to Kalinin and there got stuck in battles with Vatutin’s operational group and with the 133rd Siberian Rifle Division of General Shevtsov. On October 7th the first snow fell and there were continuous rains and snow. For the attackers, bad weather became a serious obstacle, but it played into the hands of the defenders. It was no longer possible to bypass the pillboxes and bunkers covering the intersections. They had to be taken by attacking head-on. Therefore, the battle for Moscow became a battle not over the entire space, but, basically, for every crossroads on the way to it. The German tricks with detours have come to an end. Next was the Mednovsko-Maryinsky “cauldron” near Kalinin, and after 2 months Kalinin again became Soviet...

Then there was General Panfilov’s division and there were no tanks for the final assault on Moscow...

Werner von Haupt wrote in his memoirs: “Here the Germans encountered fanatical resistance from the new Siberian divisions, which did not want to take a single step back. The Russians were not afraid of tanks with crosses on the towers, they attacked them with close combat and cleared the road only with the dead. Here on the Volokolamsk Highway in the Borodino region - on the battlefield where Emperor Napoleon met his fate 130 years earlier, the 32nd Siberian and 316th Rifle Divisions of the Red Army fought to the death, until the last soldier. We have practically no tanks left for the final push on Moscow.”

On the buckles of German soldiers at all times it was written: GOTT MIT UNS - God is with us. What is noteworthy is the soldiers, not the officers. What was allowed to them by God (not the one to whom they prayed) - they received. But God didn’t allow them to go to Moscow!

German aviation activity decreased sharply due to bad weather. The maneuver capabilities of the ground forces were reduced to a minimum due to the muddy mess that the fields and roads had turned into. The confrontation between the troops went, as they say, head-on, at certain key points on paved roads. The attack on Moscow could now basically continue only in three directions: Volokolamsk, Minsk, Kaluga highways. The forward line of the Mozhaisk defense line blocked them at key points - Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk, Maloyaroslavets. Then, after the capture of Maloyaroslavets, another direction was opened for the offensive - through Narofominsk. Freed from blocking the “cauldron,” the German troops could no longer advance as quickly as before. Now, from the point of view of strategy, everything was decided by time and reserves. And Germany had practically no reserves.

Back on October 5, when the Headquarters finally realized that it was near Moscow that things were taking on threatening proportions, it gave the order to transfer troops to Moscow from the Far Eastern Front and the Transcaucasian Military District.

Paul Karel in his book “Eastern Front” cites the following characteristic episode for the actions of German troops near Moscow in new conditions: “... the commander of the 1st division of the 229th artillery regiment was seriously concerned about the pace of advance of his unit. division, was driven beyond belief, and the horses had difficulty dragging the guns through this endless mess of mud... the captain ordered his men to turn off... in order to get onto the highway... The artillerymen reached the highway... (but) in the section from Gzhatsk to Mozhaisk they were stuck from 2000 to 3000 units of various equipment. Seeing such a sad picture, the artillerymen of the 197th Infantry Division with all haste tried to return back - straight into the mud. The speed of their advance, equal to 45 kilometers per day in the summer, now often dropped to one and a half kilometers and never exceeded five kilometers per day.When night fell, exhausted from battles, exhausted from marches, covered with dirt and lice, hungry and deathly tired, they huddled around the stoves in miserable peasant huts in small villages. On the street, the horses ate the withered frozen straw from the roofs. Inside, the soldiers were drying their uniforms, and if one of them asked: “Does anyone know where we are?”, he received a soldier’s direct and rude answer: “In the very ass of Mother Europe!..”; In the morning they again walked east, day after day, forward, all the time forward behind the motorized divisions to Moscow..."

In the meantime, we will stand here to the death.....



Thursday, July 27, 2023

Weekly Summary of Combat Operations for July 28th, 2023

 From: Chernarus Coastal Operations Group

Subject: Weekly Summary of Combat Operations, from July 21st 2023, to July 27th 2023  Inclusive.

Message begins:

The tempo of combat operations continued at a reduced pace.

Chernarus Defense, Naval and air forces have engaged in four operations in three regions.

1) OP2307-21-1 Parts of 1st Bn, Chernarus 17th Separate Mechanized Cavalry Regiment launched a major mobile offensive combat operation entailing three locations in Leskovets, Prevalna, Gorna Luka and Stakesvit.

Prevalna was a late evening ground assault from the south. Commander encountered Russian naval infantry special forces and other militia. Command located the two civilian criminal command operatives and eliminated them.

Commander also was tasked with locating an execution site, sited north of town where a number of unarmed civilians had been gunned down,  and the bus they were rising in immolated.

As evening fell, the task force began it attack on Gorna Luka from the southeast, again encountering Russian naval infantry special forces and Wagner operators.  The firefight was so heavy, commander was forced back.

In the second attack, again commander encountered more enemy militia and Wagner operators. Commands squad walked into a 180 degree crossfire, and was very nearly wiped out.

A third attack probe was begun this time with reinforcements. The attack was pure payback as command squad cleared Gorna Kula despite already being ordered to the next objective at Stakesvit.

In Stakesvit, as command squad was maneuvering from the southeast, commander was forced to attack direct north as enemy patrols around the town exchanged gunfire.  Commander probed his squad into the village.

Air Support 2 had  spent several attack runs softening up the enemy defensive zone, so the attack went very quickly. The town was secured. Rather than wait for the inevitable enemy counterattack commander returned to base.

Infantry casualties were nearly catastrophic with command squad being wiped out. Losses included one T-55 tank and both gunships.

Field counts of enemy losses included six technicals and one BTR-80A.

2) OP2307-21-3A Task force from 1st Bn, Chernarus 13th Separate Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade was ordered to attack and clear the village of Gross Steinum in Werferlingen.

Separatist forces had setup a base in town, and had deployed a number of supply trucks, including ammunition.  One of the tasks assigned to the task force commander was the elimination of two civilian criminal command operatives.

The tactical plan was for 2nd squad and 3rd squad to attack from the east, along with Scout 1 and Tank 2, as command squad attacked from the southeast.

An enemy T-34 tank caught Scout 1, destroying it before it was destroyed in turn by Tank 2.

The task force quickly penetrated the separatists' defensive zone. The town fell quickly. Commander found the dead body of a female civilian criminal operative, and stripped her of intelligence materials.

After destroying the supply trucks, and under some pressure by incoming enemy reinforcements, the task force retreated back east.

Casualties were mild with Scout 1 being destroyed.  Field counts of enemy losses included one T-34 tank and one technical.

3) OP2307-21-3B 13th Brigade operations staff issued a warning order to 1st Bn task force that separatist mobile forces were planning to move south through Ahmtorf, to forstall a friendly shifting of forces further to the west.

In town, the task force was attacked by several enemy rifle units, which attempted to penetrate the task froce's defensive perimeter. Those attacks were defeated using small arms fire and artillery.

More enemy infantry from the north attacked 2nd and 3rd squads destroying their BTRs, forcing them to retreat south to Rennau.

Command squad held a crossroads in town long enough for the two rifle squads to make their escape. Ultimately the mission was successful.

Losses were moderate with 2nd and 3rd squad losing two each, and their BTRs.

Field counts of enemy losses included one T-34, one BTR-80A and one BRDM.

4) OP2307-21-6 A task group composed of elements of 1st Bn, Chernarus 4th Separate Light Mountain Rifle Brigade marched on Msta in Chernarus with orders to prevent an enemy takeover of the town.

While on the way to Msta, commander received word that 1st Army Corps target acquisition battery apparently had located and defeated enemy artillery.

Most of the task force's infantry element deployed in town, save for 4th squad, which deployed on the southwestern edge of town. Attacks began from the north by Spanish speaking militia.

Infantry attacks from unidentified infantry, as well as from Russian militia continued from the northeast and from the north. At one point command squad was forced to march south of town to engage and defeat enemy forces.A

Air Support 1 gunship took a strong hand in the fighting engaging enemy infantry and vehicles. Its actions help stabilized the situation at Msta, but ultimately it was shot down. 

Losses were high with 2nd squad losing three, 3rd squad losing six and 4th squad losing three. Reinforcing squad 2 lost seven, while Reinforcing squad 1lost two.

Field counts of enemy losses included four technicals, one BRDM and one MRAP.


Saturday, July 22, 2023

Weekly Summary of Combat Operations for July 21st, 2023

From: Chernarus Coastal Operations Group

Subject: Weekly Summary of Combat Operations, from July 14th 2023, to July 20th 2023  Inclusive.

Message begins:

The tempo of combat operations continued at a reduced pace.

Chernarus Defense, Naval and air forces have engaged in four operations in three regions.

1) OP2307-14-1st Bn, Chernarus 19th Separate Mechanized Cavalry Regiment launched a multivector combat operation in Chernarus against enemy separatist affiliated forces.

In Nadezhdino, the task force fought off several attacks from Russian militia, Wagner and Russian special forces operators, as they tried to close in from the north, northeast and northwest.

In Mogilievka, the task force began its attack on enemy forces holding the town, finding and eliminating the two criminal command operatives who were conducting the operations for the separatists.

After the town was cleared of enemy forces, friendly forces took up positions on the northern edge of town, fighting off repeated counterattacks, including from Wagner operators.

In Pusta, command squad launched its attack from the northwest, moving to the center of the enemy's defensive zone. The task force commander was killed in the attack.

The task force, after clearing the town, held off numerous enemy attacks until the commander called for a retreat, via the coastal highway.

Losses were light. Command squad lost three including the task force commander. One BRDM was destroyed. A downed SU-25 pilot was recovered by a gunship.

Field counts of enemy losses included three technicals,  three BMPs, and one MI-8 gunship.

2) OP2307-14-3A A task force from 3rd Bn, Chernarus 13th Separate Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade was ordered to attack and clear the town of Wallbeck in Werferlingen.

The tactical plan for the attack was for Scout 1, Tank 2 and 3rd Squad to advance north taking the main highway, holding off enemy counterattacks, as Command squad and 2nd squad crossed the bridge into Wallbeck.

Commander quickly found the location of the two criminal operatives, eliminating the female element and seizing intel material from her dead body. The commander was killed.

As an enemy technical kept the town under observation, command squad advanced to the northwest, finding and seizing a number of stolen documents left by local friendly agents.

After seizing the documents, commander began to retreat from town due south because the route across the river was under heavy enemy fire.

Losses were high with Tank 2 being destroyed. Command squad lost three, 2nd squad lost three and 3rd squad lost four.

Field counts of enemy losses included one T-55 tank and one enemy MRAP.

3) OP2307-14-3B 13th Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade recon staff determined that separatist mobile forces were attempting a feint well to the west as a real advance was taking place a Eisenrode in Werferlingen.

A task force from 3rd Bn, was charged with intercepting the enemy attack. The tactical setup was  for the heavy armor to deploy to the west, while infantry, supported by Scout 1 held the east.

Command squad held a position in the center of Eisenrode, as enemy rifle attacks took place just cross the river. Unfortunately, counterbattery fire destroyed our artillery before it could be brought into action.

The enemy attempted several heavy armor atacks, only to be stopped by task force heavy armor. Much of the infantry attacks hit the eastern deployment, which fought them off.

Losses were zero.

Field counts of enemy losses included two T-34s, one T-55, one BTR-80A, and one BRDM scout car.

4) OP2307-14-6 west Chernarus Parts of 2nd Bn, Chernarus 4th Separate Light Mountain Rifle Brigade were ordered to attack and clear the separatist held town of Pushtoshka in Chernarus.

Because of the terrain and the necessity of avoiding enemy general support artillery fire, all four rifle squads composing the task force  maneuvered and attacked from the southwest.

Task force commander ordered artillery attacks on supply trucks, which the enemy parked northwest of the city, and against an enemy technical, destroying the vehicles as the task force closed and cleared the town.

Commander located and eliminated a female minder, part of the enemy criminal command group, stripping her of critical documents and a cell phone.  Brigade command cancelled the operation and ordered a new attack.

The new objective was an open area about one kilometer north of Vybor, about two kilometers north of Pushtoshka. There, a number of enemy forces had deployed. Brigade operations staff wanted that group reduced in size.

After several artillery attacks, the infantry element of the task force moved into the area. Command squad launched an assault on the position of an enemy Humvee, eventually destroying it with RPG fire.

Casualties were heavy. Command squad lost two, while 2nd squad was wiped out. A reinforcing squad was wiped out as well, along with its BMP carrier. A second BMP experienced mechanical problems, and would not move.

3rd squad lost five while 4th squad lost six.  Field counts of enemy losses included two Humvees and two technicals. 



Sunday, July 16, 2023

Weekly Summary of Combat Operations for July 24th

 From: Chernarus Coastal Operations Group

Subject: Weekly Summary of Combat Operations, from June 30rd 2023, to July 6th 2023  Inclusive.

Message begins:

The tempo of combat operations continued at a reduced pace.

Chernarus Defense, Naval and air forces have engaged in four operations in five regions.

1) OP2306-30-1 st Bn, Chernarus 17th Separate Mechanized Cavalry Regiment launched a wide area combat operation in Leskovets, with orders to intercept enemy forces in three separate locales.

In Salash, the task force deployed along a straight line and fought off infantry attacks from Russian militia, Russian specops and Wagner operators. Enemy vehicle attacks were destroyed as well, including a gunship.

In Granichak, Scout 2 encountered enemy covering forces. Russian militia attacked from the east, while Wagner operators attacked from the north. Spanish speaking troops also attacked along with another a Wagner operated gunship.

In Krachimir,  the task force held off attacks from the north and northwest, consisting of  Russian militia and unknown troops. An enemy BTR-80A was destroyed as it attempted to position itself for an attack.

Losses were moderate with command squad losing four including the commander, one Scout Car and one MI-24 gunship. The other gunship recovered a downed SU-25 pilot.

Field counts of enemy losses included seven BRDMs, three BTR-80As, three MI-8 gunships, two technicals and one T-34 tank.

2) OP2306-30-3  A task force composed of elements of 1st Bn, Chernarus 13th Separate Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade marched on Barmke with orders t0 defend the town against an enemy attack.

In the initial going enemy counterbattery units destroyed the artillery battery assigned 1st Bn.  The task force deployed at the  northern edge of the town to await the enemy attack.

Unknown enemy rifles attacked from the northwest and the  northeast, followed by an enemy scout car. All attacks were driven back. 

Two more rifle attacks took place this time identified as Spanish speaking militia and Wagner operators, followed by an incursion by an enemy BTR-80A.

More attacks took place from the north including from T-55s and T-72s, which were stopped before driving much deeper into the defensive cordon.

Losses were very light with command squad losing one.

Field counts of enemy losses included  three T-55s, two T-34s, two T-72s, and BRDM and one BTR-80A.

3) OP2306-30-6B Part of 2nd Bn, Chernarus 4th Separate Light Mountain Rifle Brigade was called upon to attack and clear the hamlet of Sosnovka in Chernarus.

Commander split his task force into three parts with the eastern group consisting of 3rd squad and 4th squad attacking to the west, while the western group, composed of command squad and 2nd squad attacked from the west.

The scout cars were positioned on the road south, and initially fought a firefight against enemy patrols.  

Counterbattery units from Chernarus 1st Army Corps engaged and reduced the effectiveness of enemy defensive artillery fire, as the four rifle squads attacked and converged on the town.

The penetration into the enemy's defensive zone went very quickly. Commander located and eliminated an enemy civilian command operative, stripping her of documents and a cellphone on her person.

One other task, the elimination of Russian speaking civilian contractors, which enemy civilian commanders sometimes use for their dirty work, was completed just before the orders to retreat were issued.

Losses were moderate with each squad losing one, except for 4th squad which lost seven.

Field counts of enemy losses included one SUV, and two technicals.

4) OP2306-30-6C A second attack and clear operation was ordered for a task force from 2nd Bn, Chernarus 4th Separate Light Mountain Rifle Brigade for the location of Pushtoshka in Chernarus.

Separatist civilian commanders brought a mortar battery with them, which made this operation particularly urgent. 

The tactical plan was for all four rifle squads to advance from the southwest, to avoid advancing across the open fields in the east. The plan also included the two BRDM scout cars to move and cover the eastern side of town.

On the attack, command squad began to attack the mortar position with artillery as they advance in parallel with 3rd and 4th squad.  In trying to clear a shooter defending a residence on the west side. The commander killed.

3rd squad became overall tactical commander and continued to advance into the defensive cordon.  Command located and destroyed the two civilian criminal command operatives, seizing critical intelligence materials.

The order to retreat came shortly after. Commander, in trying to destroy a disabled enemy technical was killed in the resulting explosion. Command then fell to 4th squad.

2nd squad command entered town trying to find a seize the intelligence material.  Unable to find the body of the killed commander, commander detained a female civilian present, and transported her back to base.

Losses were near catastrophic. 4th squad was wiped out, as was command squad. 3rd squad lost two, while 2nd squad lost four

Field counts of enemy losses included four technicals.


Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Sumava Mods List

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AGC - Advanced Garbage Collector Steam http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1724884525

Ai accuracy fix Steam http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=619834340

Arma 3 Flashlight Mod (Exile Fix) Steam http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=842214650

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CDF reArmed Steam http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1550624597

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Nikolay Vatutin. Front Grandmaster

From topwar.ru

Kiev City Council voted to rename General Vatutin Avenue. From now on, it will be Roman Shukhevych Avenue. Instead of the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front, who liberated Kyiv from the Nazis, today's Kyiv salutes the commander of the so-called insurgent army.

In 1945, one could hardly imagine that the time would come when the people of Kiev would want to revise the results of the Great Patriotic War, turn the history of the 20th century on its head, and the winners would become “persona non grata” for them, and war criminals would become heroes. Not everyone in Ukraine agrees with the ideology of "crooked mirrors". However, today the ball is ruled by those for whom Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin is not a hero, the Red Army is not a liberator, and our common Soviet past is only an object of hatred ...

How did Vatutin differ from other generals of the Red Army of his generation? According to the roots, according to the initial biography, everything is standard. He is from the middle peasants, from the rural majority. The future front commander was born into a large peasant family in the village of Chepukhino (now Vatutino!) in the Belgorod Region. The main battles of the Civil War did without him. Vatutin was drafted into the Red Army in the spring of 1920, at the age of eighteen. He served in Lugansk and Kharkov, participated in the hostilities against the Makhnovists. He joined the party, continued his education at the Poltava Infantry School. He liked the army way of life, he decided to become a professional military man, a commander, and by 1937 he graduated, as expected, from two academies. He distinguished himself in 1939, when an operation was being developed to occupy Western Ukraine. That operation and modern Ukraine owes its western borders.

In February 1941, General Vatutin was appointed First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Georgy Zhukov. Further - as in the song:

Where are these guys beardless,

With whom in the forty-first year

Somewhere under Staraya Russa

We froze on ice.

With whom in the heat and in the cold

We walked stubbornly forward.

Our military youth is

the North-Western Front.

He became chief of staff of the Northwestern Front, which held back the advance of the Nazis in Pskov and Novgorod. These were the months of the most bitter lessons of the war. Vatutin developed a reputation as a competent and hard-working staff general. But in July 1942, he was unexpectedly appointed commander of the Voronezh, and then - the South-Western Front - and he did not disappoint. The Southwestern Front played an important role in the Stalingrad operation. A commander capable of commanding a front was seen in Vatutin by Alexander Vasilevsky.

Vatutin's talent as a commander was especially evident in the development of the Kursk strategic defensive operation. He developed a multi-level plan for deliberate defense - to bleed the enemy on pre-prepared defensive lines and at the same time prepare the conditions for a subsequent counteroffensive on Kharkov. This large-scale and risky task was successfully solved. As a result, the exhausted enemy could not withstand the counterattack of the Soviet armies. Since that time, the strategic initiative in the war has finally passed into the hands of the Red Army. And Vatutin is undoubtedly involved in this glorious turning point.

It so happened that the troops under the command of Vatutin on different fronts defeated the German armies several times, led by Field Marshal Erich Manstein. In a tense confrontation, Army Group South was unable to hold back the advance of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army. 

In the early morning of November 6, 1943, General Vatutin entered liberated Kyiv. The city lay in ruins, but Vatutin had no doubt: “We will rebuild!”. In Kyiv, the enemy was no longer in charge. But after that autumn, Vatutin's troops had to suffer defeats and retreat. Although the three offensive operations of Zhytomyr-Berdychiv, Rivne-Lutsk and the brilliant Korsun-Shevchenkovskaya (then Manstein managed to arrange Cannes!) created Vatutin's reputation as a "general from victory." His role in the liberation of Soviet Ukraine can hardly be overestimated.

And he was mortally wounded on “Kasyanov Day”, February 29, 1944, a leap year ... Smershevites overlooked the crazy attack of the sabotage hundred of the UPA. At the entrance to the village of Milyatin, Ostrozhsky district, Rivne region, the general’s car was fired at, Vatutin was seriously wounded in the leg. For the enemies, it was an unexpected stroke of luck, a happy coincidence. This happens in war.

The best surgeons led by the famous Nikolai Burdenko fought for Vatutin's life. He kept repeating: “I’ll be bored in a hospital bed for three weeks, and then I’ll come to the front. On crutches, but I'll get there! Penicillin did not help (contrary to the recollections of Nikita Khrushchev, it was still used), and amputation of the leg did not help either.

On April 15, 1944, Army General Vatutin died in a Kiev hospital. He was buried in the Ukrainian capital, in the Mariinsky park. Both Kyiv and Moscow paid their last respects to the commander with 24 artillery volleys. Already in January 1948, a majestic monument by the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich stood over the general's grave. There is an inscription in Ukrainian on the pedestal. 

The people loved and revered Vatutin, because he honestly shared the fate of a soldier with millions of fallen soldiers. In addition, two of his brothers, Athanasius and Fedor, died at the front. Such an ordinary, heroic and woeful fate of a peasant family. But all of them not only died, but died for the Victory.

Even in his youth, he earned the respectful nickname of Psychologist. And after the capture of Kyiv, both enemies and comrades-in-arms called him the Grandmaster. Thoughtful, prone to analytical work, the general cannot be called otherwise. This inquisitive nugget became a real army thinker. Khrushchev in his memoirs recalled such a feature of Vatutin: “Almost a non-drinker!”. And also - not giving himself concessions, not knowing fatigue and mood swings.

Vasilevsky recalled his student as follows: “General Vatutin deservedly earned himself general recognition and popular love. His name - the name of an outstanding master of driving troops, an ardent patriot of the Fatherland, a communist, a favorite of soldiers - is forever associated with our victories at Stalingrad and Kursk, during the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of Kiev, in Right-Bank Ukraine.

Vatutin's legacy is the property of military academies and history textbooks. And the preservation of the memory of the hero is a matter of honor for posterity.

Author:

Arseny ZAMOSTYANOV