How to ensure the safety of the Crimean bridge. The Marine Guard of the Crimean Bridge: how the construction site of the century will be guarded Boats of the Grachonok project: weapons against saboteurs

A new formation will appear in the structure of the Russian Guard, whose duties will include the protection of the Crimean bridge. According to existing plans, in 2019 the transport crossing will connect the peninsula and mainland Russia with a bus road and a railway track.

“In order to solve the tasks assigned to the Russian Guard to ensure the safety of the transport passage through the Kerch Strait, a new formation will have to be formed - a naval brigade,” said Director of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov, speaking at a meeting in the Federation Council.

According to him, the employees of the department have accumulated quite a lot of experience in the field of ensuring the security of objects of strategic importance. According to Zolotov, 74 important state facilities are under the protection of the Russian Guard.

As part of the implementation of the Crimean Bridge project, more than half of the construction work has already been completed. Igor Astakhov, deputy head of the Federal Road Agency of the Russian Federation, announced this on Wednesday. In the summer, the builders carried out two key operations: they installed the road and railway arches of the bridge.

The first piles in the bottom of the Kerch Strait began to be driven in the spring of 2016. The general contractor Stroygazmontazh expects that the highway through the Kerch Strait will open on December 18, 2018, and the railway on December 1, 2019. The bridge will stretch for 19 km and will be the longest in Russia.

Scuba Diving Squad

In mid-September 2016, the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov announced that there was a section in the design documentation of the bridge dedicated to anti-terrorist security.

Shortly before this, information appeared in the media that the National Guard was planning to create a detachment of combat scuba divers, whose tasks would include repelling saboteur attacks and searching for explosives. In addition, combat divers must neutralize ammunition from the times of the Great Patriotic War and drive away diving enthusiasts from the piles of the bridge.

Scuba divers of the Russian Guard will be provided with special small arms (in particular, the ADS small arms and grenade launcher system), high-speed anti-sabotage boats and surveillance equipment capable of monitoring the sea depths.

On the boats of the Russian Guard (presumably project 21980 "Rook"), special reconnaissance vehicles will be installed that will allow them to detect enemy manpower and underwater targets.

On March 30, 2017, Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Georgy Muradov stated that the security of the Crimean bridge would be controlled by "all forces, including the military component" and special services.

Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, believes that the Crimean bridge will be mainly protected from saboteurs. The establishment of a naval brigade means that the Russian Guard will focus on protecting the water area, including monitoring the underwater situation.

“In addition to boats, autonomous underwater vehicles, high-resolution sonar systems and stationary surveillance equipment will be involved that will monitor the situation around the bridge day and night,” Murakhovsky said in an interview with RT.

As Murakhovsky clarified, the Crimean bridge is a strategic object of the first category, which implies the adoption of special measures to protect against "active external influence."

The expert believes that the state will also provide air defense of the transport crossing. According to Murakhovsky, the Buk and Tor anti-aircraft systems, as well as several radar stations, will cope with this task.

Protection from Ukraine

Meanwhile, ensuring the security of the Crimean bridge is no longer a theory, but the everyday work of the Russian special services. In Crimea, FSB officers regularly identify spies and saboteurs who were trained by the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

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So, on August 12, 2017, the FSB detained Gennady Limeshko, a native of the Kharkiv region. During interrogation, he confessed that he had undergone reconnaissance and sabotage training. The Ukrainian had to report to the curators about the de-energization of the coastal Sudak.

Ukrainian officials claim that the Crimean bridge poses a threat to national security. Kyiv fears that the transport crossing will restrict the movement of ships from Mariupol and Berdyansk, located on the Sea of ​​Azov.

Experts from the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament (Kyiv) believe that Russia's actions are "exclusively military-political in color, form a new field of socio-economic risks of stagnation in the Ukrainian Sea of ​​Azov,<…>raise threats in the context of the land corridor to the occupied Crimea.”

Sergey Goncharov, president of the association of veterans of the Alfa anti-terror unit, said in an interview with RT that Russia's Crimean bridge would have to be protected primarily from encroachments by Ukraine. In his opinion, the National Guard is able to cope with this task.

“Kyiv will do everything possible to prevent the construction, and with the help of sabotage, prevent the operation of this bridge. However, the Russian Guard has specially trained fighters to reliably protect the Kerch Bridge, ”concluded Goncharov.

The implementation of the Crimean bridge project passed the equator. “The main object of this year and next year is the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait. Now more than 50% of the (construction) scope of work on this structure has been completed, ”TASS quotes the words Deputy Head of the Federal Road Agency Igor Astakhov.

It should be borne in mind that we are talking about the entire construction site, which includes both a road and a railway bridge. The road bridge is well over 50 percent complete.

“There is no doubt that by the end of 2018 the traffic on the highway part will already be launched,” Igor Astakhov emphasized.

“It is necessary to form a new formation - a marine brigade”

The fact that the Crimean bridge is of strategic importance for Russia is not a secret. Just as the threats coming from Kyiv are not a secret, where hotheads are seriously discussing plans for sabotage against the bridge.

The Russian authorities take the protection and defense of an object of national importance seriously. The Crimean Bridge will be protected by a naval brigade, which will be formed in the structure of the National Guard.

This was stated at a meeting of the Federation Council director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov.

“In order to solve the tasks assigned to the Russian Guard to ensure the safety of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, a new formation will have to be formed - a marine brigade,” RT Zolotov quotes.

A few days ago it became known that the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation intends to purchase four anti-sabotage boats of project 21980 - code "Rook". This information is posted on the public procurement website.

In September 2017 General Director of the Zelenodolsk Shipbuilding Plant Renat Mistakhov, where project 21980 boats are manufactured, announced its readiness to offer them to the National Guard.

Boats of the Rook project: weapons against saboteurs

Anti-sabotage boats "Rook" are designed to combat sabotage and terrorist forces and means in the waters of base points and near approaches to them, as well as to assist the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia in solving the problems of guarding and protecting the state border of Russia.

The standard set of equipment includes: the MR-231 Pal navigation radar, the MTK-201M3 multifunctional optoelectronic television complex for lighting the near air and surface situation, the AKS R-779-9 automated communication complex, the Bridge-21980 integrated bridge system IC ”, hydroacoustic station for detecting underwater sabotage forces and means MG-757 Anapa, remote-controlled underwater vehicle TNPA Falcon developed by Saab Seaeye Co. LTD with a working depth of up to 300 meters, the Kalmar search and survey complex that allows you to explore the bottom surface at a depth of up to 200 meters at a boat speed of up to 8 knots, as well as a ship diving complex with a pressure chamber (SVK), designed to provide diving descents during rescue, underwater technical and other types of underwater work.

The armament of each boat consists of a marine pedestal machine gun mount (MTPU) with a 14.5 mm KPVT machine gun, a 98U small-sized remote-controlled anti-sabotage grenade launcher system, a DP-64 Nepryadva hand-held double-barreled anti-sabotage grenade launcher and 4 Igla- one".

Boats of this project are being built at three Russian enterprises at once - in addition to Zelenodolsk, in Rybinsk and Vladivostok.

Boat of the project "Rook". Photo: RIA Novosti / Ildus Gilyazutdinov

Hydroacoustic security and defense systems: neutralization of combat swimmers at the touch of a button

Currently, 14 boats of the project have already been put into operation, and 4 are under construction. Also signed contracts for the construction of several more boats.

In early October 2017, it became known that the Crimean Bridge would be equipped with special Russian-made hydroacoustic systems, which are being developed by the Atoll Research Institute. The system will consist of underwater and surface equipment for active sonar in the protected water area. The signal will undergo primary processing and will be transmitted to a stationary surface observation point for immediate detention of the intruder or neutralization of a potentially dangerous object.

Systems of this kind are now used to protect the objects of the Russian Navy and strategically important civilian enterprises.

Without going into details, we can say that these systems allow not only to control the coastline, surface and depths of the sea, but also to neutralize combat swimmers-saboteurs with a simple push of a button.

In 2016, the media reported that the National Guard was planning to create a detachment of combat scuba divers, whose tasks would include repelling saboteur attacks and searching for explosives. At the same time, it was also about providing the new unit with high-speed anti-sabotage boats, as well as special small arms.

Naval units of the Internal Troops have existed for 40 years

In fact, the creation of a naval brigade for the protection and defense of the Crimean bridge is not something completely new. In March 1978, it will be 40 years since the creation of naval units in the structure of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The foundation for the creation of such units was laid in 1976, when the Order of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU of May 5, 1976 "On the protection of artificial structures on the Trans-Baikal and Far Eastern Railways" was issued.

The main task assigned to such units is to ensure the protection of important state facilities and structures on communications located in the coastal part of the territorial sea of ​​the Russian Federation, on rivers, lakes and other surface water bodies.

With the creation of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops, these units became part of it. Today, naval units of the guards serve in Khabarovsk, Murmansk, Severobaikalsk, on the lakes Irtyash, Sinara and Silach, as well as in the Leningrad region.

According to available information, at the present time, points are already being planned for the deployment of new units of the Russian Guard, which will be engaged in ensuring the safe operation of the Crimean bridge.

I would like to believe that even the information that can be disclosed publicly will discourage the desire to try to do something about the bridge.

Crimean bridge at night

My dear readers, today is a story about how the Crimean bridge is guarded. The bridge is being built at an accelerated pace, construction teams are working in shifts day and night. There are rumors that the bridge will be commissioned ahead of schedule, of course, this is joyful, I think both Russians and Crimeans are happy, although we are also Russians.

But thoughts come that not everyone is happy about the completion of such a huge construction project, there is a certain number of people who are far from happy with this construction site, but, as they say, “eyes prick”. There are certain people who still do not believe that the bridge is being built. In a previous article, I talked about the trip of Crimean bloggers to the construction site of the century - to the Crimean bridge under construction, they climbed there, jumped on the bridge, they showed everyone that the bridge exists, it is under construction. I have a video posted in the article " ". I do not know whether or not those who still did not believe were convinced. Well, yes, this is not the worst thing, it is much worse that there are people hatching plans for the destruction of the Crimean bridge. There are such people, and these are the problems of Crimea, although not only Crimea, this bridge is needed by all of Russia. How are bridge protection problems solved? In Crimea, a special unit has been created to guard the Crimean bridge under construction, then, after the construction is completed, this unit will continue to guard the finished bridge. The division of the marine brigade for the protection of the Crimean bridge is part of the Federal troops of the National Guard and is equipped with unique technical means. There are night vision aids, there are underwater vision aids, and many others that are not known to us, and they will not be shown to us. Yes, we don’t need to know all the intricacies of protecting the bridge, I’m sure that they are ultra-modern and reliable, as well as the people who will protect it. It is planned to install Russian hydroacoustic systems to protect the bridge, which will allow to find the direction of the intruder. Such systems are produced by a subsidiary of the concern - the Atoll Research Institute. This institute specializes in the methods of hydroacoustic, radar, optical-thermal imaging detection of illegal actions in the protection of water and near-water facilities. Now these systems are used to protect hydroelectric dams, protecting them from unauthorized intrusion and possible illegal actions. As you can see, there are excellent Russian means of protection and we do not need foreign ones.

Modern watercraft are also being purchased, for example, the Grachenok anti-sabotage boats, however, their delivery date is November 2019. These boats are specially designed to combat sabotage and terrorist forces. Director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov told how the Crimean bridge is guarded. He explained that the boats were equipped with: “the IC Mostik-21980 system”, the MG-757 Anapa sonar for detecting underwater sabotage forces and means, the Falcon remote-controlled underwater vehicle with a working depth of up to 300 meters. There is a search and survey complex "Kalmar" that allows you to explore the bottom surface at a depth of up to 200 meters at a boat speed of up to 8 knots. The boat is equipped with a ship diving complex with a pressure chamber (SVK), designed to provide diving descents during rescue, underwater technical and other types of underwater work.

“The armament of each boat consists of a marine pedestal machine gun mount (MTPU) with an installed 14.5 mm KPVT machine gun, a 98U small-sized remote-controlled anti-sabotage grenade launcher system, a DP-64 Nepryadva hand-held double-barreled anti-sabotage grenade launcher and 4 Igla portable anti-aircraft missile systems. -one". And now there is a group of military scuba divers on the bridge.

These are the times now, it is not enough to build, and it is necessary to protect. Although there have always been such times, only the threat of terrorist attacks was once less, sometimes more. I remember Soviet films about spies, border violators, now they seem naive and funny, but the people who lived at that time were also under the threat of terrorist attacks. I think we should not worry, the problem of how to protect the Crimean bridge will be solved. How quickly time flies, most recently I wrote about the beginning of the construction of the Crimean bridge, (you can read) and now it is already more than half built. Not far off is the day when the first car and the first train will solemnly cross the bridge, someone will be very lucky, someone will be the first passenger of this train.

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The water area of ​​the Black Sea around the construction of the Crimean bridge is overgrown with military facilities. The Russian authorities are pulling combat ships and radio systems to the construction site to protect against any possible threats. We tell you who guards the "construction of the century" and the surrounding area.

On the Kerch bridge, the Russian authorities will organize access control. All its land sections will be surrounded by a fence, and at the entrances to the bridge - on the Kerch, Taman banks and Tuzla Island - checkpoints will be installed to inspect vehicles and citizens.

And the other day, RIA Novosti Krym reported that from the first days, patrol boats of the border service of the FSB of Russia have been watching the construction of the Crimean bridge. Military ships are located off the coast of Kerch.

Patrol boat "Sobol" commanded by Alexey Saulin from Kostroma - a graduate of the Coast Guard Institute of the FSB of Russia in Anapa. He told reporters that he himself wanted to go to serve in Kerch: “I chose on my own where I would serve, and went to the Crimea. I was in my fourth year when Crimea returned to Russia in 2014, and I immediately decided for myself that I would come to serve here.” According to Saulin, his crew guards the state border of Russia, internal sea waters and the future bridge across the Kerch Strait, and also fights local poachers.

According to RIA Krym, a Russian vessel of the Lamantin project with a carrying capacity of 112 tons is also being tested off the coast of Kerch. It can work up to ten days offline.

And behind the lighthouse on Cape Lantern there is a radio technical post, says acting. head of department in Bagerovo Vladislav Kochubey. The Russian military is watching the ongoing Kerch Strait from it - including with the help of thermal imagers. “We control the ships that pass through the section, and, thanks to the location of the point, we can monitor the situation in the area of ​​the Kerch ferry crossing, the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait,” he says.

Other military vessels and units are also connected to the protection of the Kerch Strait, Russian officials say.

Underwater robots and marine crews with machine guns

The bridge across the Kerch Strait is guarded by the Russian army and special services, the Permanent Representative of Crimea to the President of Russia said in March last year Georgy Muradov. "Security (bridge - KR) will be provided by all forces, including the military and security services,” he told the Russian media.

According to the former First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Igor Kasatonov, special units of the Black Sea Fleet will be involved in the defense of the Crimean bridge. “Issues of protection and defense of the bridge have been transferred to the Novorossiysk base. In the future, the bridge will be guarded by special units, the fleet will be responsible for security from the sea,” he says.

In September last year, Izvestia, citing unnamed sources, reported that the Russian special services in the Kerch Strait tested Penguin autonomous surface-underwater robotic systems, which are supposedly capable of detecting explosive devices and enemy divers. The publication writes that the tests were carried out successfully, the issue of the supply of these complexes is being decided.

To protect the bridge across the Kerch Strait, a new military formation will also be attracted - a naval brigade, says the head of the National Guard Victor Zolotov: "In the newly created Southern District of Troops, a new formation is to be formed - a naval brigade." According to Zolotov, representatives of the National Guard are already guarding the Artek children's center and the energy bridge in the Kerch Strait area.

The naval brigades may include units of combat swimmers who will search for ammunition from the Second World War and carry out special operations in the depths of the Black Sea, Zvezda reports, citing unnamed experts:

“According to experts, to neutralize intruders under water, combat swimmers of the Russian Guard can receive weapons - ADS underwater assault rifles, PSS pistols and special watercraft for fast movement under water, similar to those that will be included in the armament of PDSS fighters of the Navy.”

Hydroacoustic systems

Zvezda experts note that in order to suppress and quickly intercept violators at sea, the Russian Guard is going to order four anti-sabotage boats of Project 21980 Grachonok.

The Russian television channel TVC reports that landing boats of project 03160 Raptor are located in the waters of the Kerch Strait - these are the fastest sea vessels of the Russian Navy.

Director for the development of civil products and innovations of the Morinformsystem-Agat concern Stanislav Chui in October he said that special sonar systems could be installed to protect the bridge in the Kerch Strait. Chui notes that they will help not only to detect the intruder, but also to transfer the data necessary for his detention. This system is used in water bodies of Russia.

Victoria Veselova