Serve my Homeland №1 14.09.2008 (2008)

A story about the Kazan Higher Military Tank School.

A cadet of the school reports a decision during a theoretical lesson on tactics.

Faces of the cadets.

Colonel Valentin Varaksin conducts the lesson.

Cadet Rogozin talks about the battle simulation class (synchronously).

Cadets at their computers during a lesson in the battle simulation class.

A tank at the training ground.

Cadet Rogozin talks about the reasons that prompted him to become a tank officer (synchronously).

Cadets practicing driving a tank.

Panorama of the training room.

The tank driving program on the monitor screen.

Cadet Rogozin talks about training on the simulator, names the controls, talks about tank communications (synchronously).

A lesson on installing a tank on a railway platform.

Eldar Ismagilov, a teacher at the Operations Department, talks about the cadet's actions during the lesson, ways of receiving commands (synchronously).

Transmitting a command to the tank crew using a radio station.

The tank is trying to cross a ditch.

The teacher points out the cadet's mistakes.

A tank overcomes a ditch.

Cadet Rogozin talks about the difficulties of driving a tank (synchronously).

Cadets in the canteen during lunch.

Physical training lesson in the sports town.

Swimming lesson in the pool.

Cadets march in formation.

Guest in the studio - Director of the Federal Service for Defense Orders, Colonel General Sergei Aleksandrovich Mayev talks about the continuing need to use tanks in armed conflicts, maintaining the priority of tank troops as the main striking force of ground forces, the use of a tank in the weapons system, the correct use of tanks in combat, measures taken to protect the tank, the technical characteristics of the Abrams tank, the criteria determining the advantages and disadvantages of the tank, the popularity of Russian tanks abroad, providing the Russian army with modern tanks, new promising developments in armored vehicles (synchronously).

Video chronicle: the American Abrams tank in combat conditions, its tactical and technical characteristics.

T-90 tank at the training ground during high-speed driving.

A story about joint exercises of the armies of Russia and Kazakhstan at the Chebarkul training ground.

Video footage: rocket and tube artillery firing.

Motorized infantry of the simulated enemy on the offensive.

Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Yevnevich speaks about the concept of the exercises and readiness to destroy the enemy (synchronously).

Attack helicopters are flying.

The crew of an anti-aircraft gun of the Kazakh army in position.

Kazakh servicemen in position.

Sergeant Serikbayev speaks about the tactics and equipment used in the exercises and the power of the Russian army (synchronously).

The crew of a BM-21 rocket launcher of the Russian army is preparing to open barrage fire.

Rocket artillery fires at the simulated enemy.

The gunner at the panorama.

Preparing shots of the self-propelled artillery unit "MSTA-M".

Firing from closed combat positions.

Chief of Staff of the artillery battalion of the self-propelled guns Sergei Yurchenko speaks about the excellent shooting of the battalion during the exercises (synchronously).

Aviation carries out a missile and bomb strike.

A Kazakh serviceman gives the signal "I'm one of us!" using a smoke bomb.

Shelling of the advancing enemy from combat helicopters.

Detonation of explosive charges in the path of enemy tanks.

Air raid and counterattack on the enemy by forces of a tank regiment, motorized riflemen and airborne troops.

Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and Kazakh Defense Minister Danial Akhmetov speak about the resumption of the intensive order of joint Russian-Kazakh exercises, about resolving issues of interaction and coherence of the troops (synchronously).

Young members of the Association of Knights of Russia overcome an assault obstacle course.

Storming a house occupied by a simulated enemy.

An instructor helps to adjust the equipment of the game participants.

Retired Colonel Valery Latynin speaks about instructors invited to work with teenagers (synchronously).

Instructors at work.

Newsreel: panorama of the city square in Tallinn.

A military echelon passes.

Panorama of the central part of Tallinn.

Members of the Association during a hand-to-hand combat lesson.

Carrying out the Association banner during a ceremonial event.

Pupils of the military-patriotic club "Solnyshka" during a physical training and hand-to-hand combat lesson.

Pupil Sasha Dvoichenkov talks about his classes at the club (synchronously).

Pupils of the club in the gym during an oriental martial arts lesson.

Presentation of certificates and gifts to distinguished pupils at the end of the lesson.

Head of the club "Solnyshko" Klavdiya Makhova talks about the benefits of classes at the club for the formation of a person's personality (synchronously).

Pupils of military-patriotic clubs take part in competitions in military-applied sports.

The initiation ceremony into knights.