Serve my Homeland 09/01/2013 (2013)

Our report: a new event in the Russian army - tank biathlon.

This competition, in which the best crews from different countries compete in the accuracy of shooting and the skill of driving the tank.

The first final of these specific competitions was held at the training ground "Alabino".

Correspondent Alexei Kulik with the details of the competition.

The crew of the North-Western Military District was recognized as the best.

Interview: Defense attache for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Ben Reinenberg, tank commander Nikolai Morokov, driver-mechanic Dmitry Soldatov.

Our report: this year, more than 1200 candidates have applied for admission to the Serpukhov branch of the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, but not everyone can become a missile.

Filming in the branch of the Strategic Missile Force in Serpukhov: delivery of sports standards, psychological testing, theoretical and practical exercises.

Interview: head of the physical training department Andrey Vorobyov, head of the professional selection team Elena Borodina, head of the branch Alexey Konnov, entrants Maxim Tkachenko and Denis Fesin, sergeant Dmitry Turishchin (5th year).

Our report: 3 shells and 50 cartridges to a machine gun, to execute the first shot no more than 15 seconds.

It is precisely such stringent requirements that must be met by tank crews during training firings.

To avoid errors, it is necessary to take into account all the nuances, up to the speed of the wind.

The score "excellent" is the result of coordinated actions of three crew members.

Shooting at the range of the 4th Guards Tank Division: passing control standards for shooting, working out tasks for coordinated work of platoons.

Fragment of winter shooting: the standards are handed over to the commanders of the ground forces.

Interview: Deputy Commander of the 4th Guards Tank Division Nikolai Klimanov, gunner-operator Anton Izgashev, driver-mechanic Dmitry Salomatin, commander of the tank company Dmitry Zabrodin; comments correspondent Sergei Gubanov.

October 5, 1933 in Cannes, died Russian military leader, commander of the White North-Western Army, General Nikolai Yudenich.

The charitable society "East-West Bridge" together with people not indifferent to Russian history organizes an auto rally dedicated to the memory of the general.

Visiting the program the head of the society Vladimir Dervenev.

The story is supplemented by a chronicle of the beginning of the XX century.