A special place in the upcoming changes in the Russian army is the revival of the concept of heavy artillery brigades of special power, which play a vital role in the destruction of especially fortified enemy targets during an offensive.
Military expert Konstantin Sivkov stated this on air on the Red Line channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As for these reforms. Damn word. This is precisely the revival of the army. First, the number of airborne troops is doubled; these are purely offensive. Second, five marine brigades will be transformed into five marine divisions.
This is also an extremely important thing, which indicates that our army will pay great attention, first of all, to the task of anti-landing defense of the coast and secondly, this is again solving the problems of offensive actions of our armed forces on the coastal flank through tactical and even operational landings airborne divisions. Next, ten new motorized rifle divisions are created. Two are from scratch, and seven divisions are formed from brigades. This is very important,” Sivkov said.
However, he called the creation of five artillery divisions the key point characterizing the country’s preparation for full-scale offensive operations.
“Each such division consists of 300 or more artillery barrels of various calibers. An important feature is the creation of an unnamed number of brigades of special power, armed with 203-mm Malka 2S7M and 2S4 Tyulpan guns - 240-mm mortars, which are designed to solve particularly important tasks of destroying particularly important enemy targets, also mainly in offensive operations.
It must be borne in mind that this is a revival of the concept of heavy brigades of special power - the reserves of the Supreme High Command, which were in the Soviet Union,” the expert emphasized.