Soviet OOBs

[EZRhino]

I am looking for some Soviet OOBs for the 40th Army, and attached units, during the invasion of Afghanistan 1979-89. Also, if anybody knows where I can find some maps of Soviet force deploymentsduring that war, I would be much obliged.

[jim panse]

A quick Google search led me to this link. I don´t know if it will prove useful to you but who knows .....

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7b69p12h/

Hope this helps!

[Case]

www.orbat.com has exactly what you're after at: http://www.orbat.com/site/history/hi...my1979-85.html While there's no map, most of the units have their bases listed.

[Case]

Just a note: a 'MRR' is a motor rifle regiment, which consisted of three battalions of infantry with APCs as well as a battalion of tanks. From the little I've read on the Soviets in Afganisan, most of the MRRs sent there were second rate units from Central Asia and were equiped with obselete equipment (ie, T-55s and T-62s instead of T-72s and T-80s and BMP-1s and BTR-60s instead of BMP-2s and BTR-80s). The quality of the Soviet troops and equipment increased as the war dragged on, but the average quality was always well below what the Soviets had on the inter-German border.

[EZRhino]

Thanks guys, the links are much appreciated You are quite right Case, BMP-2s and BTR-80s werent introduced untill late 1985, when the Soviets had long since abbandoned major operations in Afghanistan and the war was already entering its final phase.

[Panag]

Originally posted by EZRhino
I am looking for some Soviet OOBs for the 40th Army, and attached units, during the invasion of Afghanistan 1979-89. Also, if anybody knows where I can find some maps of Soviet force deploymentsduring that war, I would be much obliged.

hi ,


http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?VMA-003

http://call.army.mil/products/spc_sd...7/endnotes.htm

http://www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Arty.htm

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/milrev/engl...dec97/grau.htm

http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/bookrevu/outofafgh.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6453/soviet10.html

http://www.afghanwar.spb.ru:8101/39/mfoto24.htm

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id312.htm

http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide...russia188.html

http://www.waronline.org/en/

have a nice day

[Panag]

hi ,

this is from orbat ;

Soviet 40th Army in the Afghanistan Campaign 1979-1985

v.1.0 October 14, 2001

Constantine Pehlivanov
40th Army established on 12 – 13. 12. 1979, incorporating 4 MRDs 1 Independent MRR, 1 Artillery brigade, 1 SAM brigade, communication, engineering and supply units. 50 thousand people and 8 thousand vehicles were mobilized.

Soviet Forces in Afghanistan (officially Limited Contingency of Soviet Forces) also included 34 Composite Air Corps, 1 ABD, 1 Spetznaz battalion (often nicknamed “Muslim”), “Grom’ and “Zenith” KGB special warfare units.

Thereafter 40th Army included:

5 MRD, 108 MRD, 201 MRD

66 Independent MR Brigade – Jelalabad

70 Independent MR Brigade – Kandahar

56 Independent Air Assault Brigade

353 Guard Artillery Brigade

55 Independent Guard Artillery Regiment

Soviet Forces also included:

103 Guard ABD

Marine regiment (since 1985)

15 Spetznaz Brigade – Jelalabad

22 Spetznaz Brigade – Lashkargah

173 Spetznaz unit of Caucasus Military District since

Former Muslim Battalion, in 1982 all the staff became Slavic
“Kaskad” joint KGB special warfare group (united Grom and Zenith)

Vega special warfare unit – unidentified one, possibly GRU 149 Guard MRR
24 Guard Armored Regiment

303 Independent Government Communication Battalion of KGB

122 MRR – Tash-kurgan

860 MRR – Faizabad

350 Independent Anti-Armor Battalion – Kunduz

682 MRR – Ruha

180 MRR

103 Independent Communication Regiment

191 Independent MRR

254 Independent Missile Regiment – Kabul

12 Guard MRR

149 Guard MRR

177 MRR

208 MRR

Air Forces in mid-1980s – 34 air Corps disbanded, units became subordinate to 40th Army; that was the only Army with air component
378 Independent Attack Air Regiment with Su-25

3 fighter squadrons – until 1984 MiG-21bis of 927 Fighter Regiment, then MiG- 23ML of 905 FR

2 Fighter-Bomber squadrons with Su-17M3

263 Independent Recce squadron with Su-17M3R


its not complete but a good start , ...

have a nice day

[EZRhino]

Thanks Panag, these links will be very usefull. Any yall know where I can find reference images of soviet armor camo configurations for the 1980's?

[Panag]

Originally posted by EZRhino
Thanks Panag, these links will be very usefull. Any yall know where I can find reference images of soviet armor camo configurations for the 1980's?

hi ,

what exactly do you need of camo , .......

there is such a huge bunch of it , ....


have a nice day

[Panag]

hi ,

try these links , .....



http://www.armybook.com/

http://www.schifferbooks.com/militar...764304623.html

http://www.hobby-plus.narod.ru/Nsovtank/indexe.htm

http://www.militarydiecast.com/for_sale.asp

http://www.henrikc.dk/camouflage/details.asp?autono=103

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorch...rts_soviet.htm

http://www.hobby-plus.narod.ru/Nsovtank/indexe.htm

http://www.gauntletinternational.com/RuPubs2.htm

http://homepage.oninet.pt/062mez/m_soviet.html

http://www.tridentmilitary.com/Ukrainian.camouflage.htm

http://www.turbosquid.com/HTMLClient...on/FullPreview

http://www.worldwidemilitaria.com/armvest.htm

http://www.npo-sm.ru/e_index.html




http://www.activevr.com/afv/camouflage/stug3.html - http://www.activevr.com/afv/camouflage.html

http://www.milparade.com/ra/sample1.htm

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/russian_camo.htm

http://www.collectrussia.com/showcat.htm?cat=vehicles

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.o...cle.cfm?Id=593

http://www.maxwolf.ru/index_e.html

http://www.weblinksonline.net/RcArm-sv.HTM

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/...uomi_simuissa/ ( links )

http://www.milparade.ru/security/86.html russian armor and AT

http://www.rollmodels.net/ninbox/arm.../tammarder.php

http://www.haaland.info/sitemap/index.html

http://user.chollian.net/~caddis/rarmor.html scale models always tend to have the best pics , ....

http://www.shopulike.com/Antiques_an...les/Militaria/ great links

http://www.wargamer.com/m2c/history.htm more great links

http://www.edai.it/forums/difesa/messages/1028.html a forum with great info , ....

http://www.directory.net/Shopping/An...les/Militaria/ links

http://www.stormpages.com/jetfight/z-8_z-9_z-11.htm great links and great pics

http://www.scorpionsnest.com/sntg_armyspecs.htm great ideas for camo , ......

http://de.searchuk.com/TOP/Shopping/...cd2=1061756040 more links

http://www.metaxearch.com/es/odp/Sho...les/Militaria/ yet more links

http://m2reviews.cnsi.net/bookreviews.htm#ARMOR

http://militaryinsignia.adr.dk/ if you need the armor patches , ......

http://dir.jayde.com/73666.html Jayde search , .....

http://www.d-2-128.org/armorid/t-80u.htm great armor ID page

http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/index.html - http://www.thortrains.net/armymen/tankfact.html just explore this one , ......

http://www.panzernet.com/articulos/wwone/wwone.html the whole site is great , ......

http://www.findtarget.com/ODP/Top/Sh...bles/Militaria links

http://lackawanna.railfan.net/page7.htm

http://www.warbooks.com/links.html more great links


http://home.t-online.de/home/kh.rani..._military.html the most complete link page , ......


have a nice day