He said every military district commander, staff officer, army and air army commander, division, brigade, and regiment commander has received combat experience in Syria. Ninety percent of flight crews and 56 percent of air defense personnel participated in combat there. Russia now has some pilots ...
”2“Musicians,”3NM LNR,4NM DNR5(but what the hell kind of policemen, Donbas tigers are there), Chechen “Akhmat-Force” subunits and only quite seldom slips “units of the 20th Army.” It’s clear we’re talking about the 3rd and 144th MRDs, there are also units of the 8th...
Display full size The silo-based, six-warhead SS-19 (RS-18 or UR-100NUTTKh), which entered service in 1980, appears to have been retired from combat duty. A small number of converted SS-19s are being deployed with two regiments of the 13th Missile Division at Dombarovsky as the SS...
For now let’s call it the 319th Regiment though now it’s probably a u/i brigade.Four smaller helo squadrons would make more sense as a brigade than a regiment. Supporting the notion that the old 575th has reverted to an army aviation brigade, the old 573rd Aviation Base at Khabarovsk...
on March 11 when the Tsar ordered the army to suppress the rioting by force, troops began to mutiny. Although few actively joined the rioting, many officers were either shot or went into hiding; the ability of the garrison to hold back the protests was all but nullified, symbols of the ...
The other project was more promising — on the battlefield began vorachivatsya cuirass (armor). Fortunately, this idea was in front of our eyes, because at the turn of the XIX-XX century. Breastplate was part of the ceremonial uniform fighter cuirassier regiments. It turned out that the ...
Russian city bearing portraits of their relatives who served. These portraits, typically black-and-white photographs, keep to a single size and are attached to identical wooden handles like those used for picket signs. As a group the photos are calledBezsmertnii Polk, the Deathless Regiment. ...
This photo released on May 10, 2022 by the Azov regiment shows two injured Ukrainian servicemen inside the Azovstal iron and steel works factory in eastern Mariupol, Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion. The Russian army is holding more than 3,000 c...
which towards the end of the civil war had developed into a lour squadron cavalry regiment. During the whole of the terrible struggle against the bolsheviks and until the Russian Army was forced to leave Crimea, the Horse Guard's Squadron of Volunteers fought the enemy with the greatest courag...
Boys, often sons of military conscripts, who attended a type of military school called a Canton (Russian: кантонистскиешколы), a school that was originally established by Peter the Great; in the 1820s the term was applied to Jewish boys drafted into the Russian army...