Film starts showing Soviet infantry walking across an open field, during World War 2. . Heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. Soviet soldier loading shell into a 120 mm mortar PM-38. Shells bursting near low structures. Soviet infantry moving quickly but cautiously across the area. Sounds of machine gun and smalls arms fire is heard. The Soviet troops enter area of several buildings. Change of scene shows Soviet woman soldier dressing and bandaging the wound of another soldier. Both are in battle gear including steel helmets. Closeup of the soldiers bandaged arm. More views of artillery firing from woods. Soviet soldiers processing a captured German soldier prisoner of war. Soviet soldiers enjoy reading a Russian newspaper. Soviet soldiers scanning skies for aircraft, through binoculars and telescope. Two German aircraft are seen flying low over the area. Soviet soldier signals for anti aircraft artillery to fire. A plane is seen diving toward the ground. Still image of black cloud from the ground is shown as narrator comments.
Soviet World War II civil defense clip about air defenses. As daylight fades, a Soviet spotter looks through binoculars for attacking German bombers, seen dimly in the dark. Soviet air defenses are activated, including antiaircraft guns, searchlights and interceptor aircraft. Animated diagram illustrates integration of various elements of air defense. Soviet Yak-3 interceptor aircraft are scrambled and fire tracer rounds in the dark. View of a Soviet pilot in cockpit of interceptor wearing a mask. Animation of a German bomber crashing and exploding. Illustration of a Soviet city with thumbnail of a Soviet antiaircraft gun superimposed. Thumbnail of a Soviet truck with rocket launcher. Numerous Soviet antiaircraft guns firing. Rockets being fired. Searchlights in operation. Animated view of German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber illuminated by searchlight. Antiaircraft guns firing. An airplane falling in flames.
Elements of the Soviet Navy Nothern Fleet escorting a supply convoy in the Barents Sea during World War 2. Soviet destroyers in camouflage are seen moving amongst the transport ships of the convoy. Soviet officers conferring in pilot house of a ship. Scene of some heavy seas. A Soviet Leningrad class destroyer moving rapidly astern the photo ship. Cargo ships steaming in background. Soviet antiaircraft gunners near their weapons, search skies with binoculars. Three German airplanes are sighted overhead and an alarm is sounded. Soviet sailors run to their battle stations. One gun crew is seen uncovering their weapon and beginning to fire at the German aircraft. A German three-engine Ju-52 flies low over the ship and drops a bomb that explodes in the water. Soviet gunners continue their barrage. Black flak begins to appear in the sky. A German Ju-78, Stuka dive bomber heads toward a ship. Two Soviet officers, on deck in heavy clothing, looking through binoculars. sailors load shells. Sequence shifts to a fast moving Soviet MO-4 small guard ship. View from aboard the MO-4 as it speeds through the water. Officers seen on the open foredeck. A crew member signals and the ship launches a depth charge to defend the convoy against German submarines. She continues to lay a cordon of depth charges. Final scene shows convoy transport ships continuing safely.
Soviet flag flies from bow of warship at dock. Faces of Soviet sailors. Soviet Naval Officers saluting the USSR Naval Ensign, hoisted aloft. Soviet Guided Missile Cruiser with crew lined up along deck rail. Soviet crew saluting in formation atop a submarine. Soviet warship in harbor, near snowy dock. Soviet warships of various types underway. Soviet Naval officers conversing.
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Soviet Air Force aircraft parked at an air base. A truck pulls trolleys loaded with bombs. Soldiers ready the SA-1 Guild or S-25 Berkut missile for launch. An aircraft pulls out of a hangar, taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. Soldiers at controls in a control room. A missile is fired. Officers watch as the missile is fired and explosion occurs. Four SA-3 Goa or S-125 Neva/Pechora surface to air missiles fired. Officers at controls. A pilot in an aircraft in flight. Soviet Air Defense Forces TU-128 Fiddler all weather interceptor fighter armed with 4 infrared semi active radar guided missiles carried under the wings. Soviet Air Force Yak-28 Firebar all weather interceptor armed with 4 missiles. Officers at controls. A rotating early warning radar. Missiles on a Soviet Navy missile cruiser. A Soviet Navy Charlie class Cruise missile submarine armed with 8 underwater missiles and torpedoes in the backwaters. Navy personnel aboard the submarine as it submerges into the water. A Cresta Missile Cruiser armed with anti ship and anti aircraft surface to air missiles, anti aircraft guns, anti submarine weapons. Naval personnel aboard. Sailors follow an officer's commands and ready weapons. Officers discuss and give orders. Weapons armed and ready to fire. An officer gives orders on a microphone near the radar screen. They sailors fire and shoot down enemy aircraft and missiles. Fire due to explosions in mid air and in water.
Soviet warships firing missiles during live fire exercises at sea. Soviet Office and crew members in control room aboard ship. Several Soviet warships fire missiles. Conventional naval guns firing from turrets and antiaircraft guns firing aboard Soviet warship. Antiaircraft missile destroys aircraft in flight. Scenes of rocket propelled aircraft being carried aloft and launched from Soviet Tu-16 aircraft. View of pilot in rocket plane. A missile strikes a ship. Flames and smoke rise up from the burning ship. Soviet Naval officer and sailors in a control room, aboard ship. Guided ship-to-ship missiles being launched from Soviet warship. Missile strikes,and destroys, target ship. Missile launched from small cutter.
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