"1st Guards Tank Army is Back." Topic
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| cosmicbank | 01 Apr 2016 6:35 a.m. PST |
The Soviet Union opps sorry The Russians are reforming the 1st Guards Tank Army. Someone please post a link my linkanater is break. |
| GeoffQRF | 01 Apr 2016 6:37 a.m. PST |
From Janes: link "The Russian Ground Forces has completed the reactivation of the 1st Guards Tank Army in Russia's Western Military District (WMD) and is to form two new armoured divisions, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced. A session of the Defence Ministry Board, chaired by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, discussed the reactivation as part of the development of Russia's quick reaction force. The session also revealed that Russia will form two new armoured divisions near the cities of Voronezh (in the WMD) and Chelyabinsk (in the Central Military District: CMD) in 2016. According to the MoD, the 1st Guards was reformed on 1 February and will be equipped with T-72B3 and T-80 main battle tanks (MBTs). A Russian tank army is typically equipped with 500 MBTs. Meanwhile, Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, commander of the CMD, said that the mainstay of the new Chelyabinsk-based armoured division will be cutting-edge MBTs. Chelyabinsk is close to Nizhny Tagil, home of Russian tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod, and Col Gen Zarudnitsky's comments could well indicate that this unit will be the first to receive the new T-14 Armata MBT and other new Armata-based vehicles." |
| cosmicbank | 01 Apr 2016 6:44 a.m. PST |
Tank a lot Geoff. Hope they buy their tanks from you. |
| GeoffQRF | 01 Apr 2016 6:46 a.m. PST |
Perhaps I need to work on the T-72B3 :-) |
 Legion 4  | 01 Apr 2016 8:10 a.m. PST |
All part of the Geo-political games … hopefully it will stay that way … games … |
| cwlinsj | 01 Apr 2016 3:56 p.m. PST |
Only way Russia can constitute the Guards is by absorbing 4-5 existing armor divisions. Zero sum gain. |
| doug redshirt | 01 Apr 2016 3:57 p.m. PST |
I thought in this age the brigade is the new division and divisions are just HQ units to command attached brigades. |
| Legion 4 | 02 Apr 2016 3:50 p.m. PST |
Not too many can actually afford Divisions, especially the Heavies … like Armor/Mech … |
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bases up the rifle teams.
