Air Defense

The Air Defense rocket-artillery units are designed to defend the units and the targets on the territory of the Royal Army. They provide firepower for the whole Air Defense systems and maintain constant combat readiness. As for their training and equipment, they meet the requirements of contemporary combat operations. The Air Defense rocket-artillery units are well organized and armed with various antiaircraft weapon systems, capable of conducting antiaircraft combat operations in spite of intensive electronic interference, mass use of wing rockets and other highly accurate combat means, and maintaining them in good working order. Although these systems do not belong to the new generation systems, their updating is practically continuous, and only the human factor and the training of soldiers and officers affect their efficiency. In recent years the Air Defense rocket-artillery units, as well as the arm as a whole, have undergone considerable reconstruction regarding their organization, equipment and tactical employment.

Combat training as a primary element and precondition of high degree of combat readiness plays an extremely important part. By good training, the efficiency and strength of the systems can be increased in spite of electronic interference and the destructive power of the guided missiles delivered from the air. In combat operations it means seeking new ways of survival on the ground, preservation of personnel, weapons and technical means.

Constant duties in the air defense systems, dynamic and intensive training, conditioning of crews and other regular duties take every minute of the day for the air defense unit personnel. In individual and collective training of the whole Air Defense personnel, command and control is tested and estimated by the use of automatic and semiautomatic systems and by centralized and decentralized fire control on the whole territory. Training in which today only the measurable parameters are valued and marked, coordination, the exchange of data, combination of different artillery and rocket systems in one zone, present a new quality. As the Air Defense units together with the fighter aviation units and the early warning control and reporting system units make up a unified Air Defense system, the changed

condition of conducting air defense operations, required a high degree of integration in training. It must be done in order to select the objectives, directions and areas to be defended, and skillfully combine the Air Defense systems in the selected directions, and employ all combat operation security measures.

The air defense systems as a whole present today a respective force, a potential enemy must reckon with. They were and still are the first echelon in opposing any aggression from the air space and a deterrent force against aggression.