About Marines Caspian Flotilla Bashny.Net

May 24 this year, 727 separate battalion of the Caspian flotilla proceeded to the teachings. Scientists promise to be not quite normal at the shooting range and was attended by representatives of many television and print journalists, because some signs of "showing off", of course, present. Otherwise, the TV did not work to remove. A bus "press tourists" were brought from Astrakhan jolting "Lasik", dressed in a military tunic, to not stand out from the crowd, and were seated in the armor of BTR. It turned out to be honest, "not very": all nine armored personnel carriers appeared elegantly decorated with bunches of film crews.

On the day of tactical exercises the first company of the battalion rehearsed his actions on the offensive from the nomination of the depth of their defense to attack the enemy's front edge. The goal - "To achieve concerted action company in the transition to the attack, overcoming cost centers (mine-explosive obstacles), attack the front edge of the defense and destroy the enemy in the first trench." On all along it was given 2.5 hours. As support in exercises involved only a regimental artillery guns D-44 and artillery on self-propelled artillery 2C9 «Nona-S". The weather was hot, about 35 degrees. Strong steamed, it went to a thunderstorm. The sailors in small arms and grenade launchers boarded the BTR-70M and began to move towards the imaginary enemy.

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727 separate battalion of the Caspian flotilla was formed in accordance with the directive of the General Staff of the Navy from 2000 and the organization was part of the 77 marine brigade. In December 2009, the brigade was disbanded, and the battalion was quartered and stored on the territory of 114 military camp in the city of Astrakhan.

The main objectives of the Marines:
Security and defense facilities of the Caspian Flotilla and places of compact residence of military families

Territorial Defence in collaboration with the Southern Military District

Localization border conflicts at the Caspian

Countering terrorism

Preventing the territory of the Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups

The battalion:
2 companies Marines

amphibious assault company

self-propelled artillery battery

granatomёtny platoon

anti-tank platoon

platoon matobespecheniya

platoon tehobespecheniya

communications platoon

The backbone of soldiers in the battalion - from Volgograd, Astrakhan and Rostov regions, the Krasnodar Territory, the republics of the North Caucasus. Ethnic composition: 70% - Russian, 20% - Caucasians, 5% - the Kazakhs, 3% - the Kalmyks, 2% - Azerbaijanis. The battalion commander - Colonel V. Omelchenko.