Guarding the Sky

The ritual of interceding on combat duty of an anti-aircraft missile battalion. The unit commander, Lieutenant Colonel Pavlik, accepts officers' reports on readiness for combat duty. Delivery and acceptance of combat duty in the bunker. Type of rockets. Training of missile warriors to comply with the standards for preparing missiles for launch. Analysis of training. Meeting, conversation of the battalion commander Pavlik with the mother of one of the servicemen. View of military aircraft at the airport. Takeoff, landing of aircraft. Theoretical and practical exercises for military pilots. Actions of military pilots on the alarm signal. Analysis of the teachings. Major Zinoviev talks with the pilot A. M. Yakovenko, conducts political studies with officers, attends a meeting of the 26th Congress of the CPSU. Reception of military delegates to the Congress by the Minister of Defense of the USSR DF Ustinov. Pilots in their free time. Soldiers and officers of one of the radio engineering units of the air defense forces are on duty at the command post, watching the readings of radio devices and locators. Actions of commanders and soldiers of air defense units upon detecting an enemy aircraft moving to the border of the USSR. Rocket troops parade on Red Square.

B&W

5

1982