NSM Live Missile Firing 2016 or MJR in battle
Shooting from a NSM combat missile. The second of the timely released "Polish" NLMF16 missiles leaves the MLV launcher.
In the last days of May of this year, a separate component of the Naval Missile Force of the 3rd Flotilla of Ships in Gdynia took part in the Polish-Norwegian exercise "NSM Live Missile Firing 2016", organized in Norway and ended in shooting. This is a very important event, not only because of the level of readiness achieved by the MJR, but also because it is an important link in our containment system - “Polish tusks”.
Since its inception, MJR has undergone extensive training to get to work. The state of "alertness" can be said, after the completion of the NLMF16 exercise, in relation to the 1st Fire Squadron and that part of the formation that was first commissioned, i.e. June 28, 2013, while NDR. This is in line with the original schedule, while the full MJR should reach the same level of readiness in 2018. The May shootings were the most important test along the way.
The executive agreement for the exercise was signed on 2 September 2015, the second day of the MSPO exhibition in Kielce, by the then inspector MW wadm. Marian Ambrosiak and Inspector General Sjöforswaret vadm. Lars Saunes, and the proper (Project Agreement) was concluded on March 15 this year. at the High Command of the Armed Forces in Warsaw, during Saunes' return visit to Poland.
NLMF16 took place at the Andøya Rakettskytefelt training ground based at Oksebosen on the island of Andøya in the county of Nordland in northwest Norway. The firing coordinator from the Polish side was Commander Artur Kolaczyński of the Naval Inspectorate, while the MJR Commander, Commander Roman Bubel, was in charge of the tasks. We write about the scope of this project below. Unfortunately, the High Command of the armed forces did not disclose all the details of the operation, so some questions remain in the sphere of doubt.
Logistic operation
Before launching rockets in Norway, serious preparations and a complex logistical operation were required. It involved not only the forces and means of MJR 3.FO, but also the 8th coastal defense flotilla from Swinoujscie, the naval aviation brigade in Gdynia and the Air Force.
March 3 this year. logistics and control ship ORP Kontradmirał X. Czernicki moved from Swinoujscie to
Gdynia, where, with the participation of soldiers of the local command of the naval port, exercises were held on loading missiles. On the main deck under the landing platform, access to which is provided by removable plates, on the latter on a pallet, which is part of the chassis of the transport-loading vehicle (with the dimensions of the base of a standard container). Although we have not received official confirmation, it was probably this ship that at the end of April brought to Norway two telemetry missiles (the only ones in Polish possession), purchased together with 36 combat missiles as part of the annex to the main contract for the supply of equipment for the original NDR, signed December 6, 2010 On the spot, Chernitsky was tasked with securing the missile firing area.
On May 6, the An-124-100M Ruslan aircraft (tail number UR-82008), belonging to the Antonov Airlines, landed at the Gdynia-Babie Doly airport. The car received four cars of the unit: two MLV (missile launch vehicle), CCV (combat command vehicle) and another truck, after which it landed at Andenes airport in Andøy on the same day at 16:30, where it took place. unloading. The redeployment of this MJR component was carried out as part of the NATO program
SALIS (Strategic Air Transport Interim Solution). Various options were considered and planned, including a sea route aboard a mine transport ship of the Lublin type. The most reliable was chosen, as well as an element of training and cooperation within the framework of a joint logistics operation.
The transportation of personnel of the unit, which included about 90 military personnel, as well as equipment, took place mainly on board Chernitsky and transport aircraft - except for the An-124-100M - also C-295M and C-130E Air Force, while the BLMW flight crew took Bryza . May 16 An-28TD
(No. 1117) from the 44th Naval Aviation Base in Semirowice made a flight on the route Gdynia-Semirowice-Stavanger-Trondheim-Andenes. The task of his crew was to transfer a technical group to ensure the operations of the second "Breeze" in Norway, this time the patrol An-28B1R (No. 1116). This was the first ever flight of a BLMW aircraft beyond the Arctic Circle. Three days later, the aforementioned Patrol Bryza left for Andenes Airport. This flight was made with an intermediate stop at Moss-Rygge and Trondheim. The task of the machine was to ensure the activities of the security forces of the missile firing area and the recognition of targets immediately before the launch of missiles, as well as the assessment of the results of hitting targets with missiles (damage assessment).
