Army Air Defense (NVA)
The air defense (TLA) was a branch of service of the former land forces of the National People's Army .
history
With the establishment of the NVA, the motorized rifle and tank divisions of the land forces were assigned anti-aircraft regiments as organic anti-aircraft forces . After initially part of the artillery was, which was air defense in 1961 an independent branch of service . The introduction of anti-aircraft missile systems began in the early 1970s .
assignment
The air defense had the task of protecting the motorized rifle units and the tank units from air attacks during the war. Unlike the anti-aircraft missile units of the air force / air defense, they were not assigned any fixed rooms. Nevertheless, the units of the air defense were already integrated into the duty system of air defense of the Warsaw Pact in peace .
education
The air defense officers were trained at the TLA section of the Land Forces Officers College .
The training and further education of NCOs in special uses of the anti-aircraft missile troops of the air defense took place at the anti-aircraft missile training center-40 "Georg Ewald" in Zingst and AZ 20 "Max Matern" specialty VII of the TLA in Bellin (established on November 1, 1973 as FRAA -40, listed as FRZ-40 on November 1, 1974).
The air defense had its own anti-aircraft artillery firing ranges in Zingst and Bellin (FSP-40, later part of the training center-20) and led - as the associations of the LSK / LV - regularly live firing at the firing Archeluk (also: Aschuluk) in Kazakhstan by .
equipment
The air defense forces of the land forces of the NVA were equipped with the following mobile weapon systems:
- Anti- aircraft machine gun twin ZPU-2 14.5 mm (2 × KPW )
- Anti- aircraft machine gun - Vierling ZPU-4 14.5 mm (4 × KPW )
- Anti- aircraft machine gun KPW 14.5 mm
- Flak S-60 57 mm
- Twin flak ZU-23-2 23 mm
- Anti-aircraft self-propelled gun ZSU-57-2
- Anti-aircraft self-propelled gun ZSU-23-4
- 2K11 pitcher (SA-4)
- 9K32 Strela-2 (SA-7)
- 2K12 Kub (SA-6)
- 9K33 Osa-AK (SA-8)
- 9K31 Strela-1 (SA-9)
- 9K35 Strela-10 (SA-13)
- 9K310 Igla-1 (SA-16)
organization
At the end of the 1980s, the military district (MB) III had the AA missile regiment -3 " Kurt Kresse " with the mobile anti-aircraft missile technical base-3 " Otto Walter " in Hohenmölsen and the subordinate divisions
- the anti-aircraft missile regiment-4 " Hermann Danz " in Erfurt ( 4th MSD ),
- the anti-aircraft missile regiment 7 "Paul Rockstroh" in Zeithain ( 7th PD ) and
- the anti-aircraft missile regiment 11 "Georg Stöber" in Weißenfels ( 11th MSD ).
The military district V led (until 1987) the anti-aircraft missile regiment -5 " Bernhard Bästlein " and the mobile anti-aircraft missile technical base-5 "Reinhold Pretzsch" in Basepohl . Subordinate to the divisions
- the anti-aircraft missile regiment-1 "Anton Fischer" in Brück ( 1st MSD ),
- the Fla Missile Regiment-8 "Willi Schröder" in Stern Buchholz ( 8th MSD ) and
- the 9th anti-aircraft missile regiment “ Rudolf Dölling ” in Karpin ( 9th PD ).
Web links
literature
- NVA. National People's Army of the GDR in brief VI. 1983 edition; Bonner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Bonn, Essen, 1983
- Torsten Diedrich , Hans Ehlert , Rüdiger Wenzke : Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR . Augsburg 2004; ISBN 3-8289-0555-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ FRZ-40 on the homepage of the Federal Archives; viewed on December 27, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FSP-40 on the homepage of the Federal Archives; viewed on December 27, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
