"question on soviet ww2 radios?" Topic

guys have a esci ww2 russian soldiers set 203
included in it is a female radio operator
does anyone know what this radio is supposed to be?
or what would be the standard russian radio have been
a picture if you have it and any info on its capability/range?

Match your figure to one of these?: link

the russians were given lots of us and gb radios, as well as having their own,
i recomend getting the osprey book on coms, well worth a read.

Red Army Regimental level radios, as of early 1942 at least, look to have been the PB and the RBS (I tried to copy and paste the names in Cyrillic, but it came out like graffiti)

I have yet to attempt to familiarise myself even vaguely with Soviet communications equipment. I do recall the figure (3 in a pack weren't there? How many are you going to need?). Good on the researcher if it was more than an approximation of a 1930-40s era set.

Gary

@Jeff … Many thanks for that link!

Although the Soviets were very keen to adopt radio technology for educational and propaganda purposes the military introduction suffered from the same problems that would damn the Red Army in the early years of the war.

The top-down system and the phobia of those responsible for production to mention any problems for fear of becoming a target to be purged, meant that Soviets had produced vast amounts of equipment and vehicles but then left them to rot in warehouses and marshaling yards. So the Red Army may have had a very high amounts of radios, but most had broken down by the start of the war, helping to compound their initial setbacks in Finland and during Barbarossa.

Red Army radio usage was limited not only by production/availability and technical quality, but also be doctrine.

Radios were not seen as important at lower unit levels (company / platoon) because of an assumption that combat decisions at those levels would be based on drill. If the company commander had his orders, and had trained his soldiers in the standard drills, there should be no need to communicate further once battle began.

Hah. Yeah that didn't work out very well. Not for the French, not for the Russians, not for anyone. One of the greatest secrets to the success of German methods in the early war period was the rapidity with which decisions were made and orders were suffused throughout sub units. Radio was one piece of the puzzle. Oral orders were another. Warning orders before orders were yet another. Independence to change the order at all levels based on information coming UP rather than only on new orders coming DOWN was also a piece.

Give radios, good quality, high reliability radios, by the thousands, to an army that does not have the operational doctrine and training of the Germans, and it won't make a lot of difference. A little, perhaps. but not a lot.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

starfury rider that's the set, reviewed here on plastic soldier hope i can link it here i will try?
link

had thought it was generic but i have both esci german and british ww2, the radios in those sets seem based on real sets so assume russian one is real set too

jeff ewing can't seem to see it there , i will look again later
shaun from s and s models i will get that book shortly, will need to look through osprey site see what else i am missing thanks guys.