Re: Russian Ground Forces: News #2 GarryB on Sun May 10, 2020 4:40 am To be clear airburst shells are vastly more effective than standard HE frag rounds, because the latter needs to contact the target to be set off, so even if it only misses by half a centimetre then it will just fly past doing zero damage. Researchers analyze the factors that undergird Russian military power: societal, political, economic, and demographic. For 2020, Russia is ranked 2 of 138 out of the countries considered for the annual GFP review.It holds a PwrIndx* rating of 0.0681 (0.0000 considered 'perfect'). The 1st Guards Tank Army was awarded the Order of the Red Banner postwar, and became part of the Soviet occupation force in Germany, known as Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, with its headquarters in Dresden. Russian Ground Forces 1st Guards Tank Army. Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a decree forming the Russian Ministry of Defence on 7 May 1992, establishing the Russian Ground Forces along with the other branches of the military. At the tip of this Russian spear was the First Guards Tank Army.

The Russian military continues to make strides towards modernization - and in-the-field experience in Syria has helped. ... Is the Russian army able to fight and win against a peer competitor, let alone an enemy alliance? It has been adopted by the Russian Ground Forces in January 2018 under the Ratnik … Department/project. Russian Ground Forces: | | | Ground Forces of the Russian Federation| Сухопутные ... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. Russian Ground Forces Posture Towards the West. Re: Russian Ground Forces: News #2 par far on Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:15 pm GarryB wrote: Because US soldiers and the US army seem fixated with believing their assault rifles are sniper rifles and that if they can shoot people at 600m or 800m they will be safe from any return fire. Its several evident weaknesses, some systemic, cast doubt on this proposition. The Russian Army, officially the Russian Ground Forces (Russian: Сухопутные войска Российской Федерации, Suchopútniye voyska Rosseeyskoy Federácii) are the land forces of the Russian Federation.Active since 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Ground Forces were formed from various parts of the Soviet Army.

4 April 2019. Re: Russian Ground Forces: News #2 par far on Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:15 pm GarryB wrote: Because US soldiers and the US army seem fixated with believing their assault rifles are sniper rifles and that if they can shoot people at 600m or 800m they will be safe from any return fire. Russian Ground Forces: The Return of Tachanka Donate One of the iconic weapons of the Russian Civil War was the tachanka–a light wheeled carriage pulled by a team of horses and mounting a Maxim heavy machine-gun, which was a weapon system ideally suited to the wide open spaces and low troop densities of that conflict. Russian Foreign Policy. The steady change in force posture 2013-2016 is an important overall development among Russian ground forces. They then turn to specific ground combat capability areas, such as the maneuver ground forces, indirect fires, long-range strike, and C4ISR. During the 2008-2012 Serdyukov military reforms, Russia reduced the number of armor and motor rifle battalions from 50 to 22 around Moscow in the Western Military District.