Bronekatera Stalina. "Rechnye tanki" Velikoy Otechestvennoy

"Ob ih podvigah skazhu kratko: esli by ih ne bylo, moya armiya pogibla by bez boepripasov i prodovol'stviya" - tak ocenil boevuyu rabotu bronekaterov Volzhskoy flotilii geroy Stalingrada general Chuykov. Eti "rechnye tanki" s bashnyami ot T-28 i T-34-76, krupnokalibernymi pulemetami i palubnymi reaktivnymi ustanovkami otlichilis' ne tol'ko v Stalingradskoy bitve, gde oni prikryvali gruzovye karavany, osuschestvlyaya PVO rechnyh kommunikaciy, i sami perepravlyali voyska v osazhdennyy gorod, pod nepreryvnym ognem protivnika, manevriruya sredi razryvov snaryadov i min. V gody Velikoy Otechestvennoy sovetskie bronekatera voevali ot Volgi do Baltiki, Nevy, Ladogi, Onegi i Chudskogo ozera, ot Kerchenskogo proliva do Dnestra, Dunaya, Buga, Visly, Odera i Shpree, ot Stalingrada do Belgrada, Bratislavy, Budapeshta i Veny (gde lish' blagodarya otvage moryakov fashistam ne udalos' vzorvat' posledniy nepovrezhdennyy most cherez Dunay, a posle voyny avstriycy sobrali den'gi i ustanovili granitnyy pamyatnik "Geroyam desantnikam, moryakam-gvardeycam ot zhiteley blagodarnoy Veny").