Air Defense Rehearsals to Destroy Intruding Enemy Aircraft
08 Oktober 2021
Regiment 224, Division 375, Air Defense - Air Force has successfully destroyed a simulated enemy aircraft during a live-fire exercise.
According to the People's Army newspaper, the situation posed in the drill was that many groups of enemy aircraft secretly rehearsed on the battlefield.
Requires combat crews to know the type, bearing, distance, and speed of the target. Improve the level of individuals, team synergies, platoons.
The entire 224th Regiment was mobile, practiced shooting at targets, practiced endurance, flexibility, ready in any situation, defended the country's airspace.
Participating in the training were 57mm and 37mm artillery batteries. It is known that the 57mm anti-aircraft gun was produced in the 1960s.
This is an anti-aircraft gun, used for air defense at low and medium ranges. In addition, the 57mm cannon is also used against light armored vehicles, low and medium altitude aircraft and cruise missiles.
According to the original design, the cannon's rate of fire was 105-120 rounds per minute. In anti-aircraft warfare, the 57mm cannon has a range of 4,000m if using an optical sight and 6,000m if it has a radar.
During the war against the US by air force, Vietnam's 57mm guns closely coordinated with 37mm and other types of anti-aircraft fire, forming a low-altitude anti-aircraft fire network of 50-3,000m, protecting firmly defend the sky of the Fatherland.
(DatViet)
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