Pasuljanske livade live firing using Malyutka
Thursday, 26.7.2018 | Training
Members of the anti-armour units of the 17th Mechanized and 11th Infantry Battalion carried out a live firing from BVP M-80 infantry fighting vehicles with Malyutka and Fagot anti-tank guided missiles, at the Pasuljanske livade training ground.
Members of the anti-armour units of the 17th Mechanized and 11th Infantry Battalion of the First Army Brigade carried out a live firing from BVP M-80 infantry fighting vehicles with Malyutka and Fagot anti-tank guided missiles, at the Pasuljanske livade combined-arms training ground. Aimers at IFV have been preparing themselves for a “trial by fire”, a kind of training crown, for more than two months.
Expressing satisfaction with the results achieved, Commander of the First Brigade, Brigadier General Željko Petrović, who visited the participants in the firing, pointed out that only the best operators, those who prove themselves at the simulator, can participate in the live firing.
- Firing of anti-tank guided missiles from the infantry fighting vehicle is one of the most complex firing exercises in infantry and mechanised units. The training that precedes the realisation of the firing is intense and very complex. Those who have achieved the best results during the months of training have the opportunity to feel what they mean by firing and launching the Malyutka, an anti-tank missile that is guided to the target manually. This firing was carried out by professional soldiers who launched combat missiles for the first time. They achieved exceptional results, especially the two ladies who hit the target perfectly. Nevertheless, this is for the first time in the Serbian Armed Forces that female soldiers launch anti-tank guided missiles, General Petrović said.
Commander of the anti-armour missile company of the 11th Infantry Battalion, Major Boban Petrović, said that the aimers of that unit, after they underwent training at their home barracks in Pančevo, had spent fifteen days in Požarevac where they practiced guiding missiles on simulators, while members of the 7th infantry battalion, according to Major Adam Horvat, deputy commander of the battalion, spent more than two and a half months of intensive training in the barracks in Bačka Topola.
Those who deserve most of the credits for the results achieved in launching Malyutka, as they said, are Sergeant Major Rajko Marković, a longtime trainer of IFV operators who thought privates first class Darija Opala and Rajka Vladetić, who were the best at firing.
