franco Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:57 am
A view of the changes in the Ground Forces in 2017 by a Web blogger;
Following the 144th, 150th and 42nd, the 3rd Motorized Infantry Division received its banners. It's time to calculate the strength of the military ground grouping of Russia, which has increased and decreased.
All data are taken from open sources. All calculated figures from the evil one are my subjective judgments.
Over the past year, the management of the 14th Army Corps, the 236th Artillery Brigade, the 171st Airborne Assault Battalion, two separate self-propelled artillery battalions of high power, five tank companies in the Marine Corps brigades have been reorganized. The formation of the 90th Tank, 3rd, 42nd, 144th and 150th Motorized Rifle Divisions, the 30th Motorized Rifle Brigade, and six separate tank companies as part of the Airborne Forces units were completed. In Wikipedia they write that, in the 106th Airborne Division, there is also a tank company, but I have not yet confirmed any evidence.
In total, there are two hundred and forty-five motorized rifle, machine-gunning, artillery, flamethrower, engineer-assault, assault-landing, parachute-landing battalions and marine infantry battalions in the Land Forces, the troops of the RHBB, the engineer troops, the Airborne Forces and the Marine Corps, three separate engineering and assault companies, eighty-two tank battalions, sixteen separate tank companies, one hundred and thirty howitzer artillery battalions, seven gun artillery battalions, thirty-nine reactive artillery battalions (MLRS Grad / Tornado-G), forty-seven anti-tank artillery battalions, eight separate self-propelled artillery high power artillery battalions, eight separate self-propelled artillery battalions (NONA-propelled guns C / NONA-CRS / Host), one hundred ninety-one mortar battery.
Now on the movement of the main types of weapons.
Tanks
New tanks in the troops for the year (as well as the last fifteen years) were not received. The volume of supplies of the upgraded T-72B / T-72B3 / T-80BV tanks is no more than 400 units. It is known that for the 2nd quarter of 2017, Uralvagonzavod sent 51 T-72B3 to the Ground Forces, and the 61st BTRZ - 49 upgraded T-72Bs.In total, about 3,200 tanks are in combat units, half of the tanks are likely to be conserved. The average age of our armored vehicles is "a little over thirty," but the pace of modernization of the tank fleet is quite satisfactory.
Large-caliber artillery.
Here everything is ambiguous. New artillery formations receive guns of caliber 152 mm - towed 2A65 Msta-B, self-propelled 2S19 Msta-S and 2C3 Acacia. But unfortunately, the share of new and modernized guns is depressingly low. For the second quarter, only eight modernized self-propelled howitzers 2S3M and two new self-propelled howitzers 2S19M2 were received. In total for the year about 20 new self-propelled guns 2S19M2 and about thirty modernized 2C3M and 2S19M1 were received. A total of about 1,700 artillery systems with a caliber of 152 mm, of which five are new and modernized in recent years - no more than four hundred. In connection with the deployment of new compounds, there was a shortage of guns with a caliber of 152 mm. In November 2017, information appeared on the extension of the services of self-propelled howitzers 2C1 "Gvozdika", which indicates the cancellation of the decision on the gradual withdrawal of 122 mm artillery systems from the Army. In total, about 700 artillery systems with the caliber of 122 mm - self-propelled howitzers 2S1 and towed D-30 guns in the combat troops
Infantry and landing combat vehicles, armored personnel carriers
For the second quarter, the troops received 35 new BMP-3. A total of about 100 new BMP-3s, 62 new BMD-4Ms, 20 new BTR-MDs, and about 100 new BTR-82A were received in a year. Also, the troops received repaired and modernized equipment - at least 400 BMP, BMD and BTR units. The 81st BTRZ alone reported the dispatch of 160 BTR-80 / 82AM to the troops for the year.
Reactive artillery
The 3rd and 144th motorized rifle divisions received more than twenty new Tornado-G systems
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PapaDragon
not big fan of Maciarewicz and gov policy tho
