Graphic: Russian Airborne SP Artillery Battery
Added 2022-04-16 04:44:34 +0000 UTCNew graphic of the Russian Airborne Self-Propelled Artillery Battery, equipped with 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled mortars. These are the main artillery for Airborne and Air Assault Regiments (as an 18-gun battalion, 3 batteries), possibly for Airborne Battalions part of Air Assault Brigades (1 battery), and are part of the Airborne divisional artillery (Artillery Regiments). The VDV also make use of D-30 towed 122mm howitzers in brigade and divisional artilleries.
The structure overall is very similar to a standard self-propelled artillery battery, except with the air droppable Nona-S instead of Msta/Akatsiya/Gvozdika howitzers and 1V119 artillery command vehicles based on BTR-D airborne APC rather than MT-LBu variants. The HQ includes a command vehicle for the Battery Commander (typically primary forward observer in a battery, setting up a command outpost) and Senior Battery Officer (stays with the battery and leads the FDC). The Battery Commander is supported by scouts while the Senior Battery Officer is supported by a fire calculator. The rest of the HQ is more rear echelon oriented, like the Senior Technician, Starshina, and Medical NCO.
The battery has two firing platoons, each with 3 mortars, and is supported by an ammunition section with 3 trucks.
