This year’s exercise plan, conducted by the Head of the Rocket and Artillery Forces Board of the General Command of the Branches of the Armed Forces, provides for a series of training and methodological activities. As part of them, soldiers of the 23rd Artillery Regiment will hone their skills in carrying out fire missions during combined fire support operations within an allied framework, as well as in using reconnaissance assets under various tactical conditions.
At the opening of the training, held on 16 May, the commander of the 23rd Artillery Regiment, Col. Paweł Świtalski, presented the course and main objectives of the field training, making no secret of the fact that the soldiers would face many tasks requiring considerable commitment and a high level of skill over the following two weeks.
“I would like the planned training objectives to be achieved and every soldier, every duty position holder, to use the field training period to improve their professional skills and abilities,” said Colonel Świtalski.
Following a briefing for all exercise participants, the regiment’s subunits began carrying out the planned training activities.
At the extensive facilities of the Toruń training center, the subordinates of Lieutenant Colonel Piotr Kobyłecki, commander of the 3rd Rocket Artillery Squadron, conducted combat operations using their equipment. The batteries of 122 mm WR-40 LANGUSTA rocket launchers practiced operations in the concentration area and at firing positions, as well as procedures affecting the timely and accurate execution of fire missions.
From the first hours of the training, soldiers of the 1st Self-Propelled Artillery Squadron carried out fire missions. Like the “rocketeers,” the subordinates of Lt. Col. Jarosław Radzimierski improved the skills of duty position holders and crews operating 152 mm DANA self-propelled howitzers, while coordinating reconnaissance, communications and logistical elements.
The crews of the squadrons’ command posts practiced procedures for planning, organizing and directing tactical operations. They used the time allocated for training to prepare for an important test awaiting them: Fire Control Training exercises involving live ammunition, scheduled for a later stage of the Rocket and Artillery Forces exercise.
