"We destroyed a russian tank at the maximum distance - 4.6 kilometers from our Stugna"
- Last month, my unit was stationed in the Donetsk region on the outskirts of a village. And one russian tank began to constantly "nightmared" our positions - it left for half a minute, fired 4-6 times and immediately hid in the shelter. Tank shelling is, to speak in army terms, a complete horror, so I was tasked to track and destroy the enemy. But it turned out to be very difficult to detect him, especially since the tank sometimes fired from a hidden position. My field of view was large, so I had to change fire position several times and wait a long time. We tracked this tank for a whole week and did not reveal ourselves, although enemy drones periodically flew over us.
That day, we took a firing position - set up the "Stugna", and hid ourselves thirty meters away ("Stugna" can be operated remotly). And then I heard how tank started working somewhere - one shot, another... I started looking through the monitor - turned right, again little bit more right. And finally saw him. The tank was standing at a distance of more than 4.5 kilometers with the frontal armor directly on us, and the gun was turned towards the village where our unit was stationed. I swithed on ATGM, waited for the information field to work on the monitor, and started. A rocket flew out and I was leading to the tank itself ("Stugna" is laser guided). In a few seconds - hit, explosion and smoke! I think the crew died immediately, I really hope so. As the measurements showed, it was possible to destroy the tank at the maximum distance, it was 4.6 kilometers away from our position. I immediately reported on the walkie-talkie that the tank had been destroyed, and our artillery had additionally hit it.
After the hit, I didn't have a surge of adrenaline, I didn't want to jump for happiness. But there was a feeling of internal satisfaction that the task had been completed, and that there were a few less enemies (probably experienced ones).
Previously, I worked with the "Korsar" ATGM. I will say that "Stugna" is much better - the missile here is more powerful, the range of hitting the target is longer, and the calculation can be launched remotely and be relatively safe.
This tank has already become my third destroyed target. I destroyed the first two last year in the Zaporizhzhia region.
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