On the border of the occupied Crimea, Ukrainian soldiers check readiness of Ukrainan BM-27 Uragan multiple rocket launcher systems to repel a possible attack by the aggressor country.

Militarnyi informs.

On the eve of the units of jet artillery of the United Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted field training near the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Joint Forces Command of the Armed Forces reported.

Units of of jet artillery of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have held field training exercises near the temporarily occupied Crimea, reported in the Joint Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In particular, the crew of the BM-27 Uragan multiple rocket launcher systems (MLRS) worked out deployment at firing positions and aiming at conventional enemy targets.

Field training exercises on coherence of crews took place in conditions as close as possible to combat, near the administrative border with the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

According to the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, the alarmed jet fighters quickly moved out of the area of concentration, marched, deployed fire positions in the area and aimed at conditional targets for their further defeat.

“Such training works out a certain algorithm of action for servicemen. This also applies to combat work at the position during the firing and issuing commands to open fire, as well as actions during the receipt of the order to conduct an internal positional maneuver and the order to repel and leave the firing position,” Serhii Naiev said.

At a high level, the servicemen also demonstrated actions to directly cover the unit from the air threats with air defenses during a fire attack, as well as to cover it with a smoke screen while leaving the firing positions.

“The training exercises we observed today showed the readiness of Ukrainian servicemen to respond in a timely manner to any situation in order to protect our country and every inhabitant of it”, Serhii Naiev stressed.

BM-27

The BM-27 Uragan (hurricane) multiple rocket launcher is one of the most long-range and powerful rocket launcher systems in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A complete salvo of 16 rockets takes 20 seconds to launch. A full salvo of this artillery system covers area of 4.3 hectares. Maximum range of fire is up to 35 km. In the early 70’s BM-27 Uragan was developed under the guidance of the Splav Government Scientific Production Concern and began its service with the Soviet Army in the late 1976.

For several years, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been receiving modernized versions of Uragan – carburetor petrol engines of the ZIL-375YA brand are being replaced on the chassis of combat vehicles with D-245.30E2 diesel engines with a higher torque of 53.7 kgf-m compared to 47.5 kgf-m on the base engine and significantly less fuel consumption.