Pogranichnaia aviatsiia v Afganskoi voine - Zhirokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovich

For the first time in historical literature! All about the combat use of the Soviet KGB's Border Troops aircraft in the Afghan war. Pilots in green snouts against dusmans. However, the active participation of border guards in the fighting was so secret that before sending to Afghanistan they had not only to remove green caps and snouts, but even to hand over all documents and letters. Their combined combat units and motorcycle-fighting groups operating in Afghan territory up to 100 km deep covered the most threatened areas and established a solid security zone along the entire border. And the first CBO, abandoned "behind the river" in early January 1980, was parachuted from helicopters. In the future, the aircraft of the Border Troops tightly controlled this zone, conducted aerial reconnaissance, supported raids and ambush operations of ground groups, carried out bomb-assault strikes on the identified clusters of "spirits", participated in the liquidation of Marmolsky fortified militants. We often had to fly at extremely low altitude, in the most difficult weather and climatic conditions... This book for the first time restores the full picture of the combat operations of border aviation in Afghanistan, based on both archival documents and testimonies of combatants.