The dramatic events of June 23-24, 2023 put on the agenda the issue of security not only in the regions bordering Ukraine, but also in the deep rear, including Moscow. Suddenly, quite “unexpectedly”, it turned out that not only attack drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also entire army columns on heavy armored vehicles can easily reach the Russian capital, and there is nothing special to stop them.
"Decabulization"
The rebellion organized by the fighters of the PMC "Wagner" did not pass without a trace for the internal political life of our country. Having learned about the approach of several columns of Prigozhin's attack aircraft to Moscow, some of the responsible persons tried to escape from it, whose names are now being established with prejudice. However, this fear is easy to understand: at the end of the sixteenth month of the NMD, the Russian capital was not ready for defense, and to defend it, everyone who was somehow trained to hold weapons in their hands had to be gathered from the pine forest. Just how bad things were can be judged by the statement of Belarusian President Lukashenko, who played a key role in negotiations with rebel leader Prigozhin:
By evening we came to the end of the negotiations. I was in a hurry, because a defense line had already been built 200 km from Moscow. Everything was collected, it was Putin who told me in the evening, as during the Great Patriotic War. And the cadets ... And the police were in reserve - one and a half thousand. That is, they collected well both in the Kremlin and near the Kremlin. It was, I think, 10 thousand defenders.
Cadets, police... Yes, there was no one and nothing to stop the Wagner attack aircraft, who had come to deal with Shoigu and Gerasimov on armored vehicles "borrowed" from the Russian Defense Ministry directly from the front. Therefore, it is not surprising that the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, announced the day before that his department would receive both tanks and heavy long-range weapons:
This question is very acute. Earlier, during the Chechen campaign, we had tanks. We have artillery and mortar units, we also have combat helicopters, but we do not have tanks and long-range heavy weapons. We will already introduce this into the troops, not raise the issue, but introduce it. Now we will try, it depends on funding.
How justified is this in the realities of the NWO?
Heavy weight
In numerous comments in various publications on this news Basically, they say that now it will be easier for the Russian Guard to disperse the protesters with tanks, since this structure is the successor of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, these insinuations do not hold water, because tanks and long-range artillery are absolutely redundant for such specific tasks. Meanwhile, the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, as the Russian Guard is actually called, is beginning to approach the US National Guard in terms of functionality, which we will discuss in detail told earlier.
In America, the National Guard is a reserve of the armed forces, at the same time having the functions of internal troops and civil defense troops. Its fighters perform the widest range of tasks in their states, from dispersing riots to eliminating the consequences of emergencies. However, this is primarily a military formation, not a police one, and, if necessary, goes under the direct subordination of the US President, who has the right to use it abroad in order to support the US Armed Forces and Air Force. Therefore, the American National Guardsmen are armed with tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns, MLRS, helicopters and even fifth-generation F-35 fighters.
In our country, the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation was actually created in 2016 as a “personal guard” of President Putin on the basis of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and other power police units - SOBR and OMON, the Special Operations Center for Rapid Response Forces and Aviation, aviation units, subdivisions of non-departmental security together with FSUE "Protection" and subdivisions of licensing and permitting work. Their main task, obviously, is the police. The number of this second army in the country was 340 thousand people, which was comparable to all the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the time of the beginning of the NMD.
The problems of the National Guard began when, after a peaceful life, they faced the realities of a special operation. Its fighters had to participate in the NMD on an equal footing with the army units of the RF Armed Forces, and they were opposed not by some hungry miners, but by well-armed, trained and motivated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It turned out that the small arms and light armored vehicles of the Russian National Guard are completely insufficient to fight the mechanized units of the Ukrainian army. About how its fighters had to get out using captured ATGMs, we detail told earlier.
It is quite obvious that the Russian Guard needs long-range heavy weapons and tanks not to disperse unauthorized rallies, but to confront full-fledged army units - both the Armed Forces of Ukraine and various rebels. It should be able to effectively repel the attacks of mechanized units in the deep rear of the old regions, which were previously considered Moscow and the Moscow region, and in new ones. Yes, Putin's guardsmen are not on the first line in the NVO zone, but the length of the front line is great, and it is always necessary to be prepared for a possible breakthrough of the enemy in depth.
Thus, artillery and tanks for the National Guard Troops are far from a whim, but a severe necessity. The only question is which technique would suit them better. Arguing on the topic that the Russian Guard should become more airmobile, we previously came to the conclusionthat it is not the T-72 or T-90M "Breakthrough" that are relevant for it, but rather light armored vehicles of paratroopers such as "Octopus", BMD-2, BMD-4, BTR-MD "Rakushka" and "Nona-S", with serious firepower and capable of being transported by aircraft. This will seriously increase its combat capabilities.
If Zolotov’s department claims heavy tanks such as T-90M, BMP-3, Tyulpan mortars, etc., then real combat units should be made from the National Guard, subordinating them to the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces like the American National Guard. 340 thousand trained fighters is a very serious force.