Day of radio engineering troops of the Russian Air Force. How the Russian army is able to detect the enemy

One of the holidays revered among military professionals is the Day of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Air Force of the Russian Federation. It is celebrated annually on December 15th.

The task of the radio engineering troops

Perhaps not all readers know that the radio engineering troops at one time separated from the Russian ones. Their main purpose is to conduct reconnaissance radar operations, thanks to which the Air Force command and control units receive timely information about the identified air enemy. In addition, data on the constant air situation are necessary for solving regular tasks not only in wartime, but also when nothing threatens the security of the state.

The strategic information that the Air Force headquarters receives from the reconnaissance radar troops is then sent, as necessary, to the aviation military units,

History of occurrence

It turns out that the radio engineering troops have a rich history. This one is quite young, as it was formed a little more than half a century ago. In 1952, it already functioned in almost the same form in which it is presented today. Although the progenitors of military radio engineering are the so-called "observation posts". They were formed during the First World War in the process of organizing defensive measures around Petrograd. Then the task of the newly formed posts was to timely warn the army about the proximity of an air enemy. A few years later, the posts were combined into a military body, forming the VNOS service (air surveillance, warning and communications).

Radio technicians during World War II

In the coming years, the posts were equipped with the simplest optical equipment, and in 1940, the RUS-2 radar stations were made available to the VNOS. Over the course of two years, the radar stations were modernized, which made it possible to use devices with improved enhanced performance in the future. The radio engineering troops of the Great Patriotic War, using the first stations, had the ability to detect fascist aircraft at a distance of up to 40 kilometers.

In fact, the use of such radars was the only reconnaissance method in the airspace when searching for the enemy. Realizing the level of danger for fighters and bombers from the operation of radar devices, enemy pilots set themselves the obligatory task of destroying them. Thus, the timely detection of aircraft of a potential enemy has become the number one point in solving important tasks at the state level to ensure the country's security.

December 15 date approval

As a holiday, the Day of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Russian Federation began in 1951. Then, on December 15, the Council of Ministers of the USSR ordered the Ministry of War to form a new functional military body that would deal with the detection of the enemy in the border airspace and alert military headquarters and the civilian population.

Radio engineering troops of the Air Force passed an important stage of development in the middle of the twentieth century. The 60s were marked by large deliveries of radar equipment, military units of this type of troops were formed. In addition, the emphasis was on opening up new heights to help maintain control over the Soviet sky.

The development of the radio engineering military sphere at the end of the twentieth century

Modern military experts note that the 80s became the most significant for the history of the radio engineering troops. This period is distinguished by significant significant changes in the equipment of the troops. One after another, the most powerful complexes and radar detection stations were supplied.

In addition, many devices of the new generation have been partially or completely transferred to the automatic mode of operation. By this stage of development, the radio engineering troops had systems for combining with the air defense forces. The scale and high level of automated processes for managing, processing and providing information data allowed the radio engineering troops to take the lead among the Armed Forces.

The importance of radio engineering troops in ensuring the defense capability of Russia

The radar field on the territory of the former, created at that time, allows to this day to implement a program of continuous tracking and tracking of aircraft, helicopters and other aircraft.

It turns out that the radio engineering troops contributed to the unique history of the space industry, namely, they participated in the organization and contributed to the safe landing of domestic ships. By the way, the landing of the first Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin did not take place without the help of radio engineers. It is also known that the servicemen of this type of troops participated in peacekeeping missions of the countries of Central Asia (China, North Korea, Vietnam), Angola, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Cuba and many other states.

The radio engineering troops of Russia, which include regiments of the same name, are subordinate to the main command of the Air Force. In the absence of hostilities, all units and strongholds of this type of troops do not leave their places of deployment and continue to protect the state border zone, or rather its airspace, from illegal intrusion.

Educational radio engineering institution in Vladimir

It is also important that the radio engineering troops of the RF Air Force need an adequate level of material support, since radar reconnaissance activities require equipping with expensive modern equipment and highly qualified training of military specialists for the further operation of such equipment.

On the territory of Russia there is a specialized preparatory institution in the city of Vladimir, called the Center for the Training of Specialists of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Air Force. Graduates of this institution, having received diplomas in the specialties "radar station technician", "technician of a separate radar company", etc., can enter the service precisely in the radio engineering troops.

Industry development

At the moment, the budget of the Russian state annually provides for the need to equip and purchase high-quality advanced radio equipment for this branch of the Air Force troops. Also, in order to maintain a satisfactory state of military radio electronics, the leadership of the units organizes its periodic repairs. By the way, thanks to the constant modernization of equipment in this area, in 2015, about a third of all weapons are innovative radio devices. But, according to the leaders of the Air Force, this is far from the limit. This figure is expected to double by 2020.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that on December 15, congratulations on the Day of the Radio Engineering Troops are heard from everywhere in Russia. All the best is wished to workers in this area, because representatives of military affairs deserve recognition and respect, no less than military personnel of the airborne troops, air defense or border service.

"On the creation of a service for the early detection of air enemy aircraft"). This day is considered the birthday of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Aerospace Defense Forces.

The Radio Engineering Troops issue in advance information about the beginning of an enemy air attack, combat information for anti-aircraft missile forces and air defense aviation, as well as information for controlling air defense formations, units and subunits.

Armament

These troops are armed with radars capable of detecting air and surface targets of a potential aggressor at any time, regardless of external factors. Years of adoption of samples for service:

• 1949 - P-8 and ACS "ASH"
• 1956 - P-18 - still found in service

According to the head of the RTV, Major General V. Gumenny, the share of advanced weapons in the RTV VKS by 2016 will exceed 30%. Modern radars will go into service:

and there will also be a further transition to the KSA "Foundation".

List of military equipment RTV VKS RF

Type	Image	Production	Purpose	Quantity	Notes
55Zh6M "Sky-M"		Russia, Russia		n/a
55ZH6U "Sky-U"		Russia, Russia	Radar station for tracking targets at medium and long range altitudes	n/a
Casta-2E2		Russia, Russia	Radar station for detecting aircraft and cruise missiles at low altitudes	n/a
69Ж6 "Sopka"		Russia, Russia	Radar station for monitoring low-altitude targets	n/a
5N84A "Defense"		Russia, Russia	Long range target detection radar	n/a
Resonance-N		Russia, Russia	Early Warning Radar	n/a
Gamma-C1		Russia, Russia	centimeter range radar	n/a
Opponent-G1		Russia, Russia	UHF radar station	n/a
48Ya6-K1 "Approach-K1"		Russia, Russia	Low altitude radar	n/a
22Ж6 "Desna"		Russia, Russia		n/a
96L6E "VVO"		Russia, Russia	Radar station of all-altitude detection	n/a
Foundation		Russia, Russia	A complex of means for automating the processes of collecting and processing radar information from the radar	n/a
1L117M "Radioluch"		Russia, Russia	Radar station for detecting targets at medium and high altitudes	n/a
29B6 "Container"		Russia, Russia	Radar station for over-the-horizon detection	n/a

Commanders

For the first time, the position of "head of the radio engineering troops" on the scale of the country's air defense was introduced on June 30, 1954: Lieutenant General Strelbitsky I.S. (1954-1956) was appointed head of the radio engineering troops of the VNOS. In subsequent years, at different times, the troops were commanded by military leaders, whose job titles were different:

• head of the RTV air defense - Lieutenant General Moskovchenko Nikolai Nikolaevich (1956-1961)
• Head of RTV Air Defense - Lieutenant General Druzhinin Valentin Vasilyevich (1961-1966)
• head of RTV air defense - Major General Gichko Georgy Aleksandrovich (1966-1969)
• head of the RTV air defense - Lieutenant General Beregovoy Mikhail Timofeevich (1969-1983)
• Head of RTV Air Defense - Lieutenant General Sechkin Nikolai Vladimirovich (1983-1987)
• Head of RTV Air Defense - Lieutenant General Dubrov, Grigory Karpovich (1987-1992)
• Commander of the RTV Air Defense - Colonel General Migunov Vasily Fedorovich (1992-1998)
• head of the department of the FSRIKVP - Major General Shramchenko Alexander Vasilyevich (1998-1999)
• head of RTV Air Force - Lieutenant General Shramchenko Alexander Vasilyevich (1999-2006)
• Head of RTV Air Force - Lieutenant General Boyarintsev A. V. (2006-2010)
• head of RTV Air Force - Major General Gumenny, Viktor Vasilyevich (2010-2011)
• head of RTV Air Force - major general. Smolkin Mikhail Alexandrovich (2011-2013)
• Head of RTV Air Force - Major General Koban A. Ya. (2013-2015)
• head of the RTV VKS - Major General Smolkin Mikhail Aleksandrovich (since 2015)

RTV schools

• - relocated to the LVVPU air defense base in 1992 and was named the St. Petersburg Higher School of Air Defense Radio Electronics (SPVURE PVO), later renamed the St. Petersburg Higher Military School of Air Defense Radio Electronics (Branch of VU PVO), disbanded in 2011.
• Krasnoyarsk Higher Command School of Air Defense Radio Electronics - disbanded in 1998.
• Kiev Higher Engineering Radio Engineering School of Air Defense - disbanded in 1992.

Officer courses

• Center for training specialists (crews) of the radio engineering troops of the Aerospace Forces (Vladimir)

see also

• Strategic bombing during World War II

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An excerpt characterizing the Radio Engineering Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces

The footman Peter said something to the coachman, the coachman answered in the affirmative. But it was not enough for Peter to see the sympathy of the coachman: he turned on the goats to the master.
- Your Excellency, how easy! he said, smiling respectfully.
- What!
“Easy, your highness.
"What he says?" thought Prince Andrew. “Yes, it’s true about spring,” he thought, looking around. And then everything is already green ... how soon! And birch, and bird cherry, and alder is already beginning ... And the oak is not noticeable. Yes, here it is, the oak.
There was an oak at the edge of the road. Probably ten times older than the birches that made up the forest, it was ten times thicker and twice as tall as each birch. It was a huge oak tree in two girths with broken branches, which can be seen for a long time, and with broken bark, overgrown with old sores. With his huge clumsy, asymmetrically spread, clumsy hands and fingers, he stood between the smiling birches, an old, angry and contemptuous freak. Only he alone did not want to submit to the charm of spring and did not want to see either spring or the sun.
"Spring, and love, and happiness!" - this oak seemed to be saying, - “and how you don’t get tired of the same stupid and senseless deceit. Everything is the same, and everything is a lie! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. There, look, crushed dead firs are sitting, always the same, and there I spread my broken, peeled fingers, wherever they grew - from the back, from the sides; as you have grown, so I stand, and I do not believe your hopes and deceptions.
Prince Andrei looked back at this oak tree several times as he drove through the forest, as if he was expecting something from him. There were flowers and grass under the oak, but he still, frowning, motionless, ugly and stubbornly, stood in the middle of them.
“Yes, he is right, this oak is a thousand times right,” thought Prince Andrei, let others, young ones, again succumb to this deception, and we know life, our life is over! A whole new series of thoughts, hopeless, but sadly pleasant in connection with this oak, arose in the soul of Prince Andrei. During this journey, it was as if he thought over his whole life again, and came to the same calming and hopeless conclusion that he had no need to start anything, that he should live his life without doing evil, without worrying and desiring nothing.

On guardian affairs of the Ryazan estate, Prince Andrei had to see the district marshal. The leader was Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov, and Prince Andrei went to him in mid-May.
It was already a hot spring. The forest was already all dressed up, there was dust and it was so hot that when driving past the water, I wanted to swim.
Prince Andrei, gloomy and preoccupied with thoughts about what and what he needs to ask the leader about business, drove up along the alley of the garden to the Rostovs' Otradnensky house. To the right, from behind the trees, he heard a female, cheerful cry, and saw a crowd of girls running towards the intersection of his carriage. Closer in front of the others, a dark-haired, very thin, strangely thin, black-eyed girl in a yellow cotton dress, tied with a white handkerchief, from under which strands of combed hair were knocked out, ran up to the carriage. The girl was shouting something, but recognizing the stranger, without looking at him, she ran back with a laugh.
Prince Andrei suddenly felt pain from something. The day was so good, the sun was so bright, everything around was so cheerful; but this thin and pretty girl did not know and did not want to know about his existence and was contented and happy with some kind of her own, stupid, but cheerful and happy life. “Why is she so happy? what is she thinking! Not about the military charter, not about the arrangement of the Ryazan dues. What is she thinking? And why is she happy? Prince Andrei involuntarily asked himself with curiosity.
Count Ilya Andreevich in 1809 lived in Otradnoye just as before, that is, taking over almost the entire province, with hunts, theaters, dinners and musicians. He, like any new guest, was glad to Prince Andrei, and almost forcibly left him to spend the night.
During the boring day, during which Prince Andrei was occupied by the senior hosts and the most honorable of the guests, with whom the house of the old count was full on the occasion of the approaching name day, Bolkonsky looked several times at Natasha, who was laughing and having fun between the other young half of society, kept asking himself: “What is she thinking? Why is she so happy!
In the evening, left alone in a new place, he could not sleep for a long time. He read, then put out the candle and lit it again. It was hot in the room with the shutters closed from the inside. He was annoyed with this stupid old man (as he called Rostov), ​​who had detained him, assuring him that the necessary papers in the city had not yet been delivered, he was annoyed with himself for having stayed.
Prince Andrei got up and went to the window to open it. As soon as he opened the shutters, the moonlight, as if he had been waiting for it at the window for a long time, burst into the room. He opened the window. The night was crisp and unmovingly bright. Right in front of the window was a row of trimmed trees, black on one side and silvery lit on the other. Under the trees there was some kind of juicy, wet, curly vegetation with silvery leaves and stems in some places. Further behind the black trees there was a kind of roof shining with dew, to the right a large curly tree, with a bright white trunk and branches, and above it an almost full moon in a bright, almost starless, spring sky. Prince Andrei leaned against the window and his eyes rested on this sky.
Prince Andrei's room was on the middle floor; they also lived in the rooms above it and did not sleep. He heard a woman speak from above.
“Just one more time,” said a female voice from above, which Prince Andrei now recognized.
- When are you going to sleep? answered another voice.
“I won’t, I can’t sleep, what should I do!” Well, the last time...
Two female voices sang some kind of musical phrase, which was the end of something.
- Oh, what a delight! Well, now sleep, and the end.
“Sleep, but I can’t,” answered the first voice, approaching the window. She apparently leaned completely out of the window, because the rustling of her dress and even breathing could be heard. Everything was quiet and petrified, like the moon and its light and shadows. Prince Andrei was also afraid to move, so as not to betray his involuntary presence.
– Sonya! Sonya! – the first voice was heard again. - Well, how can you sleep! Yes, look what a charm! Ah, what a delight! Wake up, Sonya, - she said almost with tears in her voice. “There has never been such a lovely night, never.
Sonya reluctantly answered something.
- No, look at that moon! ... Oh, what a charm! You come here. Darling, dove, come here. Well, see? So I would squat down, like this, I would grab myself under my knees - tighter, as tight as possible - you have to strain. Like this!
- All right, you're going to fall.
There was a struggle and Sonya's dissatisfied voice: "After all, the second hour."
Oh, you're just ruining everything for me. Well, go, go.
Everything fell silent again, but Prince Andrei knew that she was still sitting there, he sometimes heard a quiet stir, sometimes sighs.
- Oh my god! My God! what is it! she suddenly cried out. - Sleep like sleep! and slammed the window.
“And it doesn’t matter to my existence!” thought Prince Andrei while he listened to her conversation, for some reason waiting and fearing that she would say something about him. “And she again! And how on purpose! he thought. Such an unexpected confusion of young thoughts and hopes, which contradicted his whole life, suddenly arose in his soul, that he, feeling unable to understand his state of mind, immediately fell asleep.

The next day, having said goodbye to only one count, without waiting for the ladies to leave, Prince Andrei went home.
It was already the beginning of June, when Prince Andrei, returning home, drove again into that birch grove in which this old, gnarled oak struck him so strangely and memorable. The bells rang even more muffled in the forest than a month and a half ago; everything was full, shady and dense; and young spruce trees scattered throughout the forest did not disturb the general beauty and, imitation of the general character, tenderly turned green with fluffy young shoots.
The whole day was hot, somewhere a thunderstorm was gathering, but only a small cloud splashed on the dust of the road and on the succulent leaves. The left side of the forest was dark, in shadow; the right one, wet and glossy, shone in the sun, slightly swaying in the wind. Everything was in bloom; the nightingales chirped and rolled now close, now far away.
“Yes, here, in this forest, there was this oak, with which we agreed,” thought Prince Andrei. “Yes, where is he,” thought Prince Andrei again, looking at the left side of the road and without knowing it, not recognizing him, admired the oak he was looking for. The old oak, all transformed, spread out like a tent of juicy, dark greenery, was thrilled, slightly swaying in the rays of the evening sun. No clumsy fingers, no sores, no old mistrust and grief - nothing was visible. Juicy, young leaves broke through the tough, hundred-year-old bark without knots, so that it was impossible to believe that this old man had produced them. “Yes, this is the same oak tree,” thought Prince Andrei, and a causeless, spring feeling of joy and renewal suddenly came over him. All the best moments of his life were suddenly remembered to him at the same time. And Austerlitz with a high sky, and the dead, reproachful face of his wife, and Pierre on the ferry, and the girl, excited by the beauty of the night, and this night, and the moon - and all this suddenly came to his mind.

RTV is a branch of the Air Force troops and is intended for radar reconnaissance of enemy airborne control systems in flight and the issuance of information to higher command.

Main task: Radar support for military branches.

conducting radar reconnaissance of an air enemy

radar support for troops, forces

combat support

SART of aviation flights

Detection of surface targets, nuclear targets, launch and descent of space objects.

ORLR is a tactical unit of the RTV, performs tasks as part of a battalion.

ORLV - tactical unit of the RTV performing tasks as part of the RTB and RTP, orlr.

Organizational Structure of the ORLR:

Armament RTV Air Force:

Means of communication

Track. Facilities

Small arms and missile weapons

By combat purpose:

Combat mode radar

standby radar

specialist. Facilities

by frequency range

meter range

decimeter range

centimeter range

in terms of maneuverability

Stationary

Movable

10. Purpose and tasks solved by the radio engineering troops of the air force. Principles of combat use of RTV.

The basic principles of the combat use of RTV:

High combat readiness

Activity, decisiveness and suddenness of action

Coordinated use of forces and means, interaction with neighboring and other branches of the armed forces

Concentration of efforts at the decisive moment

Decisive manoeuvre.

Continuity

Advance provisioning

Comprehensive support

Maintenance and restoration of radio regiments

Constant consideration and skillful application of moral and psychological factors

Solid and continuous control.

Purpose: issuing information to the command post of the aerospace defense brigade.

Combat use: implementation of reconnaissance and information actions.

Intelligence. Information Action is the coordination of actions in terms of goals, objectives, place and time

Intelligence and information activities include:

Conducting radar reconnaissance

Issuance of radar information

Maneuver by forces and means of units.

Intelligence. Location Ruv:

Air object detection

Loc identification. Goals

Loc recognition. Goals

Accompanying lok. Goals.

Collection of radar information

Radar processing. Information

Radio location analysis. Information

The airspace area is determined by the RTS detection heat

RTS detection zone - an area of ​​airspace within which detection is carried out.

Detection zone - station

Information zone - company

Radar field - regiment, battalion.

Ways to use ORLR for baht: circular search, search within the sector, search for a specific target.

11. Anti-aircraft missile forces of the air force. Anti-aircraft missile systems and their combat capabilities. Assessment of the capabilities of anti-aircraft missile units by the commander of the radio engineering unit.

ZRV are designed to protect the highest authority, military units, etc. from the strike of the enemy's SVKN.

The Air Force ZRV consists of anti-aircraft missile regiments, separate divisions, and batteries.

Zrp - is the main tactical part.

For automated control, Ksa "Baikal" and Baikal 1M are used.

It is designed to control the fire of the S-300.

Ksa Baikal - provides: 120 targets (60 bearings, 60 targets), 6 S-300 air defense systems (14 air defense systems)

ZRS S - 300 PM (PS) - anti-aircraft missile system (KPS - command post of the system, up to 6 multi-channel air defense systems)

KPS - designed to bring combat readiness and ensures the setting of tasks for up to 36 targets.

KPS consists of: PBU - combat control point, radar - detection radar, external power supply, topographical positioner 1 T 12-2M, ZKP sets in semi-trailers.

RLO - detection radar is designed to detect and track targets.

The centimeter-range radar detects targets at a distance of 260 km, auto-locks 200 targets, auto-tracks 72 targets.

PBU provides: effective use in the grouping of control systems, by solving. To the automatic. Task mode:

Management dir rlo

Linking, matching and tracking up to 100 target trails.

Definition of state. Prenad goals.

Selection of priority goals and their distribution between systems.

Ensuring the interaction of systems in a complex environment.

Coord. Autonomous Combat action.

Ensuring interaction with neighboring and higher units.

A multi-channel complex of means designed to destroy the enemy's air defense systems of all types.

Combat capabilities:

The boundaries of the affected area: for aerodynamic. Targets - 150 km, for ballistic targets - 40 km, for low-flying targets - 28 km, close - 5 km.

Height - Minimum - 100 meters, maximum - 27 km.

The number of targets being tracked is 12, the number of targets being fired is up to 6.

Target speed - 2800 km.

The rate of fire is 3s.

Working time zrk - 27 sec - when chipped. Tss, 37 - without them.

The S-300 includes:

Machine. Radar illumination and guidance (RPN)

Specialized radar for detecting low-altitude targets (LVO)

Up to 12 upgraded launchers

Up to 48 anti-aircraft guided missiles (SAM)

Means of communication and power supply

When evaluating combat capabilities, we take into account:

The combat mission is provided. Parts

Locations of divisions

The state of combat units

Types of air defense systems connected to ACS

Requirements for issued to the COP ZRv inf.

Expedient options for issuing radar. Inform.

On December 15, the Russian Armed Forces celebrate the day of the formation of the radio engineering troops of the Air Force (Air Force). On this day in 1951, a service for the early detection of enemy aircraft was created by a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

The Radio Engineering Troops (RTV) is a branch of the Russian Air Force, part of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.

Radio engineering troops of radar information about the air situation. They conduct radar reconnaissance and provide radar information to combat crews of higher command posts (CP) and command posts of formations, military units and aviation units, anti-aircraft missile forces and electronic warfare.

In peacetime, all deployed subunits and command posts of formations and units of the RTV are on combat duty for air defense, perform tasks of protecting the state border in the airspace.

The radio engineering troops are a relatively young branch of the military. They were formed in their current form in January 1952. However, the roots of RTV go much deeper into history. Already during the First World War, the question arose of timely warning the troops and the population about the approach of enemy aircraft. It was at that time that when organizing the air defense of Petrograd and Tsarskoye Selo, "observation posts for the sky" appeared, later united into the air surveillance, warning and communications service (VNOS).

Until the end of the 1930s, VNOS posts were equipped with the simplest optical instruments. In 1938, the world's first radar station "RUS-1" was created (the first radar detector for aircraft), which received a baptism of fire in the war with Finland in 1939-1940. In the autumn of 1939, the designers created a more advanced RUS-2 (Redut) station, which was widely used during the Great Patriotic War to detect enemy aircraft.

In the post-war years, the need and importance of information about the air enemy, the beginning of his possible attack, control and prevention of reconnaissance activities in the country's airspace has constantly increased. In this regard, on December 15, 1951, a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the creation of a service for the early detection of airborne enemy aircraft" was issued, on the basis of which, on the basis of the VNOS units of the Air Defense (Air Defense) of the country and the radar service of the Air Defense Fighter Aviation, the Radio Engineering Troops were formed as a branch of the military. .

The period from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s was characterized by the rapid development of the radio engineering troops. In those years, massive deliveries of radar equipment were carried out, groupings of troops were deployed. From the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s, the development of dominant heights continued, the introduction of new equipment into the troops, primarily automated control systems.

The 1980s in the history of the development of RTV are characterized by qualitative changes in weapons and military equipment. The troops began to receive more powerful radar systems and radar stations, which incorporated the best achievements of Soviet scientists in the field of radio engineering and computer science. The massive arrival of automation equipment made it possible to create automated radar systems on the scale of formations and associations of the Air Defense Forces.

The radar field created on the territory of the Soviet Union made it possible to carry out continuous tracking of aircraft at almost any point.

The process of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the events that followed it markedly weakened the Air Defense Forces. In connection with the disbandment of a large number of radio engineering units, a continuous radar field over the territory of the state disappeared. The country's overall air defense system was also significantly weakened.

On January 14, 1994, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Federal System for Reconnaissance and Control of Airspace (FSR and KVP) was created, which provided for the integration of radar systems and means of the Air Defense Forces, the Department of Air Transport, the Air Force (Air Force) and the Navy (Navy ) through the automation system.

In 1998, the Air Defense Forces and the Air Force merged into one branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the Air Force. Units that solved related tasks were united, and a single system of radar reconnaissance and radar support was formed on the basis of the radio engineering troops.

The radio engineering troops of the Air Force have a rich history of ensuring the landing of domestic spacecraft, including the landing of the first cosmonaut of the Earth - Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet space shuttle Buran.

RTV servicemen performed their international duty in China and North Korea, Vietnam and Egypt, Syria and Angola, Cuba and Afghanistan and a number of other countries.

The Air Force RTV consists of radio engineering regiments (RTP), which are part of the Air Force formation, the Aerospace Defense Brigade (VKO), as well as other units and organizations directly subordinate to the Air Force Commander-in-Chief.

Radio-technical troops (RTV) are armed with radio-technical means (RTS) and complexes of automation equipment (KSA) designed to conduct radar reconnaissance of an air enemy and issue radar information about the air situation, within the radar field, to the Air Force control bodies and other types and branches of troops of the Armed Forces, to control points for combat means of aviation, anti-aircraft missiles and electronic warfare (EW) in solving peacetime and wartime tasks.

At present, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force are solving the tasks of controlling the sky of Russia, protecting its state border in the airspace. In 2014, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force controlled the flight of more than 380,000 aircraft over Russia.

The main directions for the development of the radio engineering troops of the Air Force are the improvement of the technical equipment of military units and subunits through measures to extend the service life and modernize existing equipment and weapons, and master the weapons of a new fleet.

RTV, within the framework of the state defense order, began to receive advanced radar equipment and automation systems, such as the Foundation, including the mobile version, the Sky radar of various modifications, the Podlet, an all-altitude detector, which have no analogues in the world, have long detection ranges, having the ability to work, including on ballistic targets, with high detection accuracy of any type of targets.

Specialists of the radio engineering troops undergo retraining for new types of equipment at the RTV Specialist Training Center, and are also trained at equipment manufacturers.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

From the sky surveillance service to the federal system of reconnaissance and airspace control

In 1912, Order No. 397 was issued by the Russian Military Department, according to which the staff of the aeronautical unit of the Main Directorate of the General Staff was put into operation. And already on January 1, 1913, the law on the sovereignty of the airspace of the Russian Empire, approved by the Council of Ministers on November 16, 1912, came into force. To implement this law, it became necessary to organize the air defense of the airspace of the Russian Empire. As a result, the need for organized monitoring of the air situation arose.

This led in 1913 to the first steps in the organization of aerial surveillance. The Russian aircraft designer A. A. Porohovshchikov proposed a project to create a special network of observation posts with the aim of organizing the entry into battle of the forces of the air fleet, together with the available field and fortress artillery. To do this, along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland along the line St. Petersburg - Riga, it was proposed to create a network of so-called air stations, placing them in two lines: one - St. Petersburg - Vindava, the other - St. Petersburg - Suwalki. The purpose of these stations was to monitor the appearance of aircraft in the zone of responsibility of the station, the size of which was determined by the range of the airspace with the help of optical instruments, to single out aliens among them and to report the fact of their passage and its direction to interested commanders. The idea was also expressed about the possibility of assisting their pilots in finding violators of the airspace. Thus, the proposed stations were to be removed at a distance of up to 150 versts from one another, equipped with means of ground communication and provided with transport.

The first military personnel who solved the tasks of aerial surveillance and warning were officers and non-commissioned officers of the active infantry, cavalry and artillery units.

In the guidelines for the fight against aerial reconnaissance of that time, it was determined that in each separate unit officers and one non-commissioned officer from each battalion, squadron, hundred and battery were appointed specifically to monitor the appearance of enemy aircraft and airships.

The 55ZH6M Nebo-M mobile multi-range complex is a system of interconnected block-modular elements placed on a four-axle off-road chassis.
Photo: Mikhail Zherdev

The first guidelines for conducting aerial surveillance were developed. In combat conditions, aerial surveillance had to be carried out everywhere and continuously, regardless of the weather and time of day. Having found an air object, the observer had to notify the command and all personnel about it.

The order of notification was worked out in parts, available means of signaling were used for it. The very first observer who discovered the air reconnaissance was supposed to give an alarm.

There was another problem - the recognition of the observed air objects. So, on the eve of the First World War, appropriate measures were taken to designate the nationality of aeronautical means and airplanes of Russia. On August 8, 1913, the Military Council approved an instruction according to which concentric circles of the colors of the Russian national flag - white, blue and red - were applied on Russian aircraft on the sides of the fuselage or gondola, as well as on the rudders. On airships, the flag with the image of a red guis in the upper left corner and a red anchor in the lower right served as an identification mark. But for better recognition, they soon began to draw tricolor circles on their shells, clearly visible both from the ground and from the air. These designations were used by observers to identify their aircraft.

At the beginning of the First World War, the tasks of detecting aircraft and supporting the combat operations of anti-aircraft artillery and fighter aircraft were solved by posts for detecting an air enemy and a searchlight. There was no continuous strip of posts along the front line. The system of posts for detecting an air enemy was deployed directly at the covered objects.

All air enemy detection posts were staffed by regular officers and soldiers. Organizationally, the calculations of posts were reduced to companies of observers. The post consisted of 5-7 people who had binoculars, a compass, a watch and a topographic map at their disposal. The posts did not have their own means of communication and were located, if possible, near railways, at stations, sidings, at post and telegraph offices - where there were means of communication.

During the creation in the fall of 1914 of the air defense of Petrograd and the imperial residence in Tsarskoe Selo, special attention was paid to sky observation posts, which were formed in units and subunits of the 6th Army in accordance with the instructions for aeronautics put into effect by order of the Army Commander-in-Chief (No. 90 November 30, 1914).

The Kasta-2E1 radar station is designed to detect, measure the range, azimuth and determine the nationality of air objects - aircraft, flying and hovering helicopters, remotely piloted vehicles and cruise missiles, including those operating at low and extremely low altitudes. Photo: Georgy Danilov

Long-range air observation posts were located along the western border of Finland and along the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. The task of detecting an air enemy in Finland and notifying the Petrograd Air Defense Headquarters about it was assigned to the border guards.

The near air surveillance line was deployed on the basis of the artillery fortified area around the Russian capital and on the ships of the Baltic Fleet.

In order to establish speed of communication between air observation posts, to ensure the possibility of immediate transmission of reports from them to Petrograd, the head of the air defense of Petrograd was charged with organizing a direct connection between the posts and the central point chosen by him, as well as between the central point and artillery, airplanes and teams assigned to repel an enemy air attack.

In December 1915, the first tasks of organized monitoring of the air situation were formed. The sky observation service was charged with the duty of detecting aircraft, monitoring their actions, and alerting air defense facilities and the civilian population about air danger.

These tasks were the first ones defined for the forces and means solving the tasks of aerial surveillance.

On May 12, 1915, the Commander-in-Chief of the 6th Army issued Special Instruction No. 1 "Posts from the lower ranks to observe the sky."

It determined the composition of the posts being formed, the areas of observation, the duties of the lower ranks of the posts, the procedure for carrying out combat duty and warning in the event of the appearance of enemy aeronautical vehicles in the sky.

For the first time, for the efficiency of transmitting information about an air enemy over a communication line, the instruction introduced the term "air", which is still used during the combat duty of radio engineering troops units.

At the sky observation posts, the instructions introduced special work logs, which became the prototype of modern combat duty logs.

1916 became a special year in the organization of aerial surveillance. By this year, aerial surveillance and warning services began to appear in all the warring countries.

In Germany, there was an aerial surveillance and warning service. In Austria, observation posts were called "Aviation Guard". Posts "Aviation Guard" were connected by 10-12 in the so-called information points, and 5-6 information points were combined into central points of air reports. In Russia, such a service was called the Sky Observation Service. She formed the basis for the creation of the VNOS troops, and also became the progenitor of today's radio engineering troops.

In the period 1915–1917. for the organization of air defense of large military-political, administrative centers of the country - Mogilev, Dvinsk, Minsk, Pskov, Odessa, Nikolaev, an air surveillance and warning structure is being formed, which is an integral part of the organization of defense against air attack by German and Austro-Hungarian aviation. So, in 1917, 60 observation posts were already set up around Petrograd and Odessa, reduced to companies of observers and staffed by regular officers and soldiers. Subsequently, the number of such posts around Petrograd increased to 83. To receive reports from the posts, 15 telephone and telegraph stations were also created around the Russian capital.

On March 20, 1917, by order of the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief No. 370, the creation of air defense within the boundaries of the Odessa Military District was determined. The air defense of the district was headed by Major General I. A. Fedorov.

The same order introduced the staff and the Regulations on the Headquarters of the Air Defense of the Odessa Military District. Captain Pokrovsky (defense battalion commander) was appointed Chief of the Air Defense Staff. Artillery units, machine-gun and aviation units for defense against air attack are subordinated to the head of the air defense. Observation posts were formed by two companies of observers. For night operations, there were 4 searchlight teams. The telegraph and telephone team provided communications between the air defense units and the District Air Defense Headquarters.

By September 1917, air defense services had been formed in Petrograd and the Odessa military district, bringing together all the available forces and means of air defense, including the organizationally formed air monitoring service.

The air defense service was led by the commanders of the military districts through the chiefs of air defense, to whom all units of fighter aviation, anti-aircraft artillery, and air surveillance were subordinate.

The general management of the air defense services was carried out by the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (through the services of the quartermaster general and the general on duty). The chiefs of staff of the air defense of the city of Petrograd and the Odessa military district were at the same time commanders of air observer battalions. The constant combat readiness of air defense units was supported by the daily appointment of duty units in all fighter squadrons and anti-aircraft batteries and the constant activity of observation posts.

Radar station "Nebo-U" is designed for automatic detection, measurement of coordinates and tracking of a wide class of modern air targets, small and inconspicuous targets made using stealth technology. Photo: Mikhail Zherdev

The main result of the creation of the sky surveillance service was that during the First World War, air alerts were announced in Petrograd several times, but thanks to the alert information, not a single enemy aircraft even reached the nearest approaches to Petrograd.

Thus, the sky observation service was born and developed during the First World War and was an integral part of the emerging air defense systems of important military-political, administrative centers, military districts, groupings of troops and forces of the Russian fleet.

In the future, the development of the surveillance and warning system can be divided into the following stages.

First stage (1918–1925). The formation of a surveillance and warning service only around the most important military-political and administrative centers of the country at the time of the immediate danger of an enemy air attack.

Despite the change in the political situation in the country, associated with the October events and the change of state power and system in Russia, the Air Defense Headquarters continued to function in Petrograd under the leadership of Major General V. G. Burman (head of air defense in 1914–1918) and Staff Captain P. D. Votintsev (Chief of Staff in 1917–1918).

To ensure reliable cover for the capital of the state and timely notification of a possible enemy air raid around Petrograd, sky observation posts continued to perform their combat mission. This is also evidenced by the fact that the distribution of forces and means of the air defense of Petrograd, the organization of notification of the appearance of an air enemy was carried out by the Revolutionary Committee for the Defense of the City of Petrograd under the leadership of N. I. Podvoisky, in charge of which was the Air Defense Headquarters.

In April 1918, in connection with the relocation of the Soviet government to Moscow, in the order of the military head of the Moscow region No. 1 dated April 25, 1918, the air defense of the city of Moscow was formed. On the outskirts of the city, signal points are deployed - air observation posts.

In the period February - May 1919, orders for the operational unit determined the location of observation watches over the sky in Sestroretsk, Dibuny, Stanki, Toksovo, Osinovets, Oranienbaum, Strelna. In October-November of the same year, instructions were developed and put into effect for the duty chief of communications, observation watches.

Second stage (1926–1932). Formation in the border zone and around the main economic and administrative centers of the country of a permanent network of visual observation posts, staffed mainly by the forces of the local police.

On June 30, 1927, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, the Instruction on the Service of Air Communication and Observation Posts was put into effect. Posts were created in communication units (subdivisions) of corps, divisions, regiments, in air-chemical defense units and air fleets of the Air Force. The posts were subordinate in all respects to the communications chiefs of all levels of leadership.

On January 31, 1928, the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR decided to legalize the terms "air defense" and "air surveillance, warning and communications service (VNOS)". These terms were used in the fundamental documents approved by the People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR on the organization of the country's air defense, namely in the Regulations on the Air Defense of the USSR (peacetime) and the first provisional regulation on the air defense of the USSR (in wartime) .

On July 11, 1928, by a resolution of the Administrative Meeting of the Council of Labor and Defense, for the first time, a list of the most important points subject to air defense was approved (48 in total), and the deployment of the VNOS service through civilian people's commissariats was determined.

On February 7, 1931, a joint directive of the Headquarters of the Red Army and the Main Police Department was issued on the creation of the main and observation posts of VNOS under the police. The points of deployment of the main posts (GP) and the number of observation posts (NP) by regions (territories) and autonomous republics were determined by directive, the states of the GP and NP VNOS were introduced.

Third stage (1932–1938). Transfer of all functions of the VNOS service to VNOS military units specially created in the Air Defense Forces. During this period, the first radar means for detecting air targets were created.

On April 11, 1932, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR No. 0019, the Regulations on the VNOS air defense units of the country's territory were put into effect.

In June 1933, the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov was presented with a memorandum from design engineer P.K. Oshchepkov outlining the idea of ​​using radio waves to detect aircraft and the principles of using radio detection devices in an air defense system.

In January 1934, a group of employees of the Central Radio Laboratory, headed by Yu.K. Korovin, conducted the first experiment to detect an air target using radio waves. The radio signals reflected from the aircraft were recorded at a distance of 70 km.

On January 14, 1934, a special meeting was held at the USSR Academy of Sciences, which approved the idea of ​​radar.

On July 10–11, 1934, near Leningrad, the world’s first tests of the Rapid aircraft radio detection equipment (manufactured by the Leningrad Electrophysical Institute at the request of the Red Army Air Defense Directorate), which could detect aircraft at a distance of up to 3 km, were carried out.

On June 20, 1937, by directive of the USSR NPO No. 34990ss, a closed border strip and specially protected zones were established on the territory of the country in relation to air defense. The entire VNOS service, with the exception of air defense points, was subordinated to the commander of the Air Force of the military districts.

Fourth stage (1938 - June 1941). Comprehensive strengthening of the VNOS troops, raising their combat readiness to a level that meets the requirements of the outbreak of World War II, the period of the first combat development of new radar equipment, the period of the formation of the first radar units.

The research and experimental work carried out in the field of radar allowed Soviet scientists to create by 1938 the world's first radar station "RUS-1" (aircraft radar - the first), which received a baptism of fire in the war with Finland in 1939-1940.

In the autumn of 1939, a more advanced RUS-2 station (code "Redut") was created, which was put into service in July 1940 and was widely used during the Great Patriotic War to detect enemy aircraft and aim Soviet fighters at them.

On December 4, 1938, the decision of the Main Military Council of the Red Army No. 10200ss determined the subordination of the VNOS service to the head of the Air Defense Directorate of the Red Army, and in military districts - to the assistant commanders of the air defense forces.

On October 7, 1940, a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On the air defense of the USSR" was issued, which determined changes in the management of local air defense. The People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR retained the functions of directing and organizing the air surveillance service, air defense of the territory and air defense points, and combating the air enemy.

On January 25, 1941, the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 198-97ss "On the organization of air defense" was issued. The organization of air defense was envisaged in the zone threatened by air attacks to a depth of 1200 km from the state border.

Fifth stage (June 1941 - September 1945). Active use of VNOS troops in combat operations, ensuring the combat operation of air defense fire weapons, organizing ground defense. The sharp quantitative growth of the VNOS troops and their qualitative improvement.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (on June 21, 1941), the country's air defense, consisting of 13 air defense zones, included, among other things, 6 regiments, 35 separate battalions and 5 separate VNOS companies.

At 03:50 on June 22, the VNOS observation post, located near the lighthouse on Cape Khersones, heard the noise of the engines of a large group of aircraft heading towards Sevastopol. The planes were flying low and observers noticed that they had no identification marks. However, judging by the characteristic noise of the engines and silhouettes, it could be concluded that the planes were German. Vnosovites immediately reported this flight on command. From further observation of enemy aircraft, it was established that they began mining the Sevastopol Bay. After some time, a second group of German aircraft flew over the post, heading towards Sevastopol. But thanks to the vigilance of Vnosov's observers, the Black Sea Fleet had already been put on alert and gave a worthy rebuff to the enemy.

This fact can be attributed to the fact that it was the VNOS troops who were the first to reveal the fact of the beginning of the attack on our country by German troops on June 22, 1941.

At 04:30 on June 22, the main VNOS post of the Moscow Air Defense Zone received reports from the posts of the 11th separate VNOS battalion about the violation of the USSR state border by two squadrons of German aircraft and the bombing of Brest. The reports were handed over by Major Zhuk. At the same time, information was received about raids on Vilnius and Kaunas. After 15 minutes, VNOS posts reported about the bombardment by German aircraft of our airfields and industrial facilities in Kyiv, Riga, Odessa. The Great Patriotic War began.

In the period from September 21 to 23, 1941, for the first time in the history of wars, with the help of the first domestic radars ("RUS-2") and subsequent actions of fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft artillery and other air defense systems of Leningrad and the Baltic Fleet, the plan of the German military command to destroy the USSR fleet was thwarted in the Gulf of Finland by conducting a three-day air operation of their air forces. Enemy aircraft raids were repulsed by fighter aviation forces, anti-aircraft batteries and naval anti-aircraft artillery. During the air operation of the enemy air force, 12 massive raids and several strikes by small groups with a total number of up to 500 bomber aircraft were undertaken.

All the raids were opened by the radar crews of the 72nd VNOS orb. By the actions of fighters of the 7th Air Defense Air Corps, the Air Force of the Leningrad Front and aviation of the Baltic Fleet, 25 enemy aircraft were destroyed by anti-aircraft artillery fire, a large number were damaged, the enemy’s plan to destroy the ships of the Baltic Fleet and suppress the Kronstadt naval base was thwarted.

On May 21, 1943, in accordance with the order of the NPO of the USSR No. 0087 on the reorganization of the management of the Moscow air defense system, for the first time in the Red Army, VNOS divisions were formed as part of the Moscow Air Defense Front (based on the corresponding regiments of the Air Defense Front). Such formations were carried out in the Air Defense Forces of the country for the first time.

Sixth stage (September 1945 - 1952-1954). Radical re-equipment of VNOS with a new one, including radar equipment, improvement of their organizational structure and comprehensive preparation for the creation of a new type of troops - the country's radio-technical air defense forces.

This period was marked by the final transition from the VNOS troops to the creation of a new branch of the country's air defense forces. On April 15, 1946, the service of the head of the VNOS of the country's Air Defense Forces was created as part of the Headquarters of the Air Defense Forces of the country.

On December 15, 1951, by a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Ministry of War was tasked with creating a reliable detection, warning and guidance service, for which it was necessary to organize a unified radar system.

The direct responsibility for the detection and destruction of enemy aircraft in the regions (border, seaside, air defense of the country) was assigned to the commanders of the regions.

On January 15, 1952, a directive was signed by the Minister of War of the USSR, which determined measures to implement the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of December 15, 1951 on the creation of an external detection and guidance band in the countries of people's democracy, on the creation of a frontier detection and guidance band along the state border of the USSR, as well as bands in the areas of the Air Defense Forces of the country. All ground-based radar detection and guidance systems that were in the units and formations of fighter aircraft were combined with the VNOS service facilities and the Radio Engineering Troops (RTV) VNOS were created on this basis.

On June 30, 1954, the post of chief of the VNOS radio engineering troops was introduced. This date completed the creation of the radio engineering troops (RTV) as a branch of the Air Defense Forces. By the end of 1954, the visual observation posts that existed in the states of the VNOS units along the state border were replaced by radar units.

Seventh stage (1954 - February 1998). Development and improvement of the radio engineering Air Defense Forces of the country.

On March 17, 1956, by a resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Plan for the development and organizational restructuring of the country's existing air defense radar system, developed by the Headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces, was approved.

On April 17, 1956, the USSR Minister of Defense approved the organization of the central apparatus of the country's Air Defense Forces. The post of chief of the country's radio-technical air defense troops was introduced.

By the end of 1955, the process of replacing visual detection posts with radio engineering units with radars of various types was completed.

In the second half of the 1950s. in the Air Defense Forces of the country, the formation of three types of troops was completed: air defense aviation, anti-aircraft missile and radio engineering troops.

On January 14, 1994, the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation was issued on the creation of the Federal System for Reconnaissance and Airspace Control (FSR and KVP). It provided for the integration of radar systems and means of the Air Defense Forces, the Department of Air Transport, the Air Force and the Navy through an automation system. The leadership of the Federal System for Reconnaissance and Airspace Control was entrusted to the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces through the commanders of the air defense zones.

Eighth stage (since March 1998). Development and improvement of the Federal system of reconnaissance and airspace control as part of a new branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the Air Force.

On July 16, 1997, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree "On priority measures to reform the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and improve their structure" (put into effect by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of August 3, 1997), which determined the creation on the basis of the existing Air Defense Forces and Air Force of a new branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the Air Force.

On March 1, 1998, in accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Office of the Head of the Federal System for Intelligence, Use and Control of Airspace (FSRIKVP) of the Air Force was formed as part of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. In the fall of 1999, it was renamed into the Office of the Chief of the Radio Engineering Troops of the Air Force.

A look at the history and development of the radio engineering troops shows that these troops have traveled a long and difficult path in their development. A hundred years have passed from the first proposal to create a network of air stations to the creation of radio engineering troops as one of the components of the aerospace defense system.

Units and subunits of the radio engineering troops, which were awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star.

Order of the Red Banner:

• 6th separate battalion VNOS (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1943), 334th radio engineering regiment (Petrozavodsk);
• 72nd separate radio battalion VNOS (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 19, 1943), 335th radio engineering regiment (Yaroslavl).

Order of the Red Star:

• 1st separate company VNOS (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 26, 1945). Declared by order of the People's Commissar of Defense No. 096 of 1945;
• 73rd separate army company VNOS (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 26, 1945). Declared by order of the People's Commissar of Defense No. 097 of 1945;
• 35th separate army company VNOS (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 28, 1945). Declared by order of the People's Commissar of Defense No. 0120 of 1945;
• 29th separate radio battalion VNOS (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 28, 1945);
• military unit 26708: 2nd VNOS division, 6th VNOS regiment, 6th air defense radio engineering regiment, 52nd air defense radio engineering brigade, Mytishchi (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1968);
• 27th Air Defense Radio Engineering Regiment, military unit 23369, Batumi, (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1968);
• 339th Radio Engineering Regiment (Astrakhan).

Many important events have taken place in the history of the creation of an aerial surveillance and warning system on the way to its transformation into a radar reconnaissance system. The glorious history of the radio engineering troops does not end there. The glorious traditions of protecting our Motherland in the airspace, established by more than one generation, will be continued.