На русском языке:
В Беларуси восстановят заброшенный 369-й ракетный полк?
На беларускай мове:
У Беларусі адновяць закінуты 369-ы ракетны полк?
Yesterday at about 16:00, the monitoring team of the Belarusian Hajun Project recorded the arrival of Mi-8 helicopter of the Belarusian Air Force in the area of the village of Charatsianka (Zhytkavichy district, Gomel region), near which the regiment of Strategic Missile troops (RVSN) – the 369th Guards Vladimir-Volynskiy order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Regiment (military unit 42691) under the callsign «Garden» was stationed from 1959 to 1996.
According to our information, on June 12 at around 14:20, a Mi-8 helicopter of the Belarusian Air Force flew from the airfield in Machulishchy to the territory of the former military unit 41738 near the village of Volma (Smaliavichy district, Minsk region), where the so-called «Site 400. Kupol» and the Russian Armed Forces troops are stationed.
At 14:50, the same helicopter took off from the «Kupol» in the direction of the village of Charatsianka, where the abandoned 369th Regiment of Strategic Missile troops is located, and at around 17:00, it returned from Charatsianka to Machulishchy.
What is this Missile Regiment?
There are very few pictures of this area on the Internet and, as of 2017, the entire infrastructure (including the nuclear missile unloading platform, railroad, boiler rooms, barracks, and warehouses) was in a completely unusable condition.
Source of the pictures: swalker.org
Previously the regiment included two divisions with a total of 8 launchers for R-12 (SS-4) lmedium-range ballistic missile. Also, the regiment had Soviet RSD-10 Pioneer transporter erector launcher, and RT-2PM Topol strategic missile system.
In addition, judging by the fact that there was a platform for unloading nuclear missiles on the regiment’s territory, we can say that there also were nuclear warheads.
At the moment, it is not known whether any repair work has begun there. But according to the available photo and video, we can say that the current state of the facilities is unsuitable for any kind of use, the only option would be to demolish and rebuild in this place. At the same time we should note that several passenger planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces arrived in Belarus in the last week: Tu-134 (RF-66053), which arrived on June 11 at 10:10 and departed on June 12 at 18:50, and Tu-154B (RA-85554), which arrived on June 8 at 13:30 and departed the same day at 17:55 to Perm (Russia).
If you know the current status of the 369th Missile Regiment and whether anything is going on there, please contact us via @HajunBYbot or the anonymous contact form below.
