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| Russian Order of Battle, September 1st |
| 2014-09-02 |
| From Burko News here and here, presented is a partial list of Russian units said to have provided units to assist the militia efforts in Donetsk and Lugansk: From Southern Military District (Russia), ground forces and artillery: BTG (Brigade Tactical Group) from the 18th Motor Rifle Brigade - Chechnya, Khankala/Kalinovskaya (the so called “Chechen battalion”); BTG from the 17th Motor Rifle Brigade - Chechnya, Shali (The Caucusus); BTG from the 136th Motor Rifle Brigade - Botlikh, Dagestan (The Caucusus); BTG from the 205th Motor Rifle Brigade - Budyonnovks, Stavropol Krai (Russia); BTG from the 19th Motor Rifle Brigade - Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (The Caucusus); BTG from the 7th Military Base in occupied Abkhazia, Georgia; BTG from the 33rd Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade - Maykop, Republic of Adygea (Russia)(The Caucusus); Mixed division from the 291st Artillery Brigade - Troitskaya, Ingushetia (The Caucusus); Mixed company from the 78th Logistic Brigade, Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai; From Airborne Forces: 76th division - Pskov (Airborne unit from northern Russia); BTG from 98th division - Ivanovo (Russia) (Airborne); BTG from 45th Detached Reconnaissance Regiment - Kubinka (Moscow Oblast); BTG from 247th Regiment of the 7th division - Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Krai, Russia); Units Reported to be in or near Ukraina: Units of the Southern Military District From 20th Motor Rifle Brigade - Volgograd (Russia) (250 km from Ukraina); From the 34th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade - Karachay-Cherkessia Republic (The Caucusus); From the 943rd Artillery Regiment (BM-27 Uragan) - Krasnooktyabrsk settlement, Adygea; Units of the 1st Missile Brigade (OTR-21 Tochka, 9K720 Iskander) - Krasnodar; From other military regions of the Russian Federation: From the 23rd Motor Rifle Brigade - Samara; BTG/RTG of Airborne Forces - from the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade - Volgograd (250 kilometers from Ukraina); From the 106th division - Tula (Airborne unit Near Moscow); GRU units, located in the South of Russia: 10th Special Forces Brigade - Molkino, Krasnodar Krai; 22nd Special Forces Brigade - Aksay, Rostov Oblast (Near Ukraina); 100th Experimental Reconnaissance Brigade - Mozdok, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (The Caucusus); 346th Special Forces Brigade - Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkar Republic (The Caucusus); 25th Special Forces Regiment - Stavropol; (About 250 km south of Rostov) GRU units from other military regions of the Russian Federation: 2nd Special Forces Brigade - Pskov (Northern Russia); 16th Special Forces Brigade - Tambov (Central Russia); 3rd Special Forces Brigade - Ulyanovsk. A second list of units said to be involved in Ukraina (there are repeats of the first list): 136th Motorized Brigade of Dagestan, Botlih. The battalion comprised mostly of troops of Dagestanis, Ossetians, Kabardins, and Asian ethnicity. 18th Motorized Brigade of Chechnya, Khankala/Kalinovskaya. The battalion in the vast majority comprised of local Chechens, Dagestanis, and Kabardian. 17th Motorized Brigade in Chechnya, Shali. National composition of the battalion is Dagestanis, Chechens, Ossetians, Kabardins, and Asians. 8th Mountain Brigade (Mountain) in Chechnya, Borzoi. The national unit of mixed composition, Dagestanis, Chechens, Ossetians, Kabardins, and Asians. 19th Motorized Brigade (Northern Ossety - Alania, Vladikavkaz/Ingushetia, Troitskaya). The battalion is stationed in Ingushetia with the 291st Artillery Brigade. The vast majority of the Brigade are local Ingush, but there are also Dagestanis, Kabardins, and Asians. 4th Russian Military Base (Samachablo, the so-called “South Ossetia”, Tskhinvali/Dzhava), staffed by local Kudar Ossetians and Ossetian residents of North Ossetia and Alania in the Russian Federation. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #20 Ossifer Man, that's beautiful. Surprise and delight. Moar NOLA rhymes Cheese-n-grits, put a brother on the spot! Limericks from beneath the A dude at the Y at Lee Circle, When cured of a painful tubercle, Repented his sin: "Yankees might come again, But next time I won't catch nothing hurtful." A drunk is staring down the well. An hour back, he's feeling swell; Now raucous laughter sounds his knell. How many cops? "He slipped and fell!" The Snowball Prize? I would bestow it Posthumously down on Bordeaux at Uptown Tchoupitoulas Where all of the coolest Kids eat mint and coffee (and know it). Lemme chant a ballade to incense ya Of a house on Valence called... Valencia! If a debutante steps Through its door with those preps, She may later long for dementia. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 21:51 |
| #19 Ah, sweet NOLA! To eat fried dough in the most corrupt city on earth... |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-09-02 21:36 |
| #18 :o) |
| Posted by: badanov 2014-09-02 20:42 |
| #17 Moar NOLA rhymes pls. Like: Ossifer be a dear, And hold muh beer, While I look for muh Shoes which must be near. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-09-02 20:41 |
| #16 And speaking of NOLA... That lump that you think is a snow cone Can never compare to the touchstone: When it gets hot outside, Dihydrogen oxide Is coldest in Hansen's Sno-Bliz zone. Sorry for pissing on your awesome article, badanov. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 20:29 |
| #15 LMAO! Come for the news fix, stay for the limericks. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2014-09-02 20:19 |
| #14 "They say that I'm biting the pillow. They don't know my real peccadillo: The cause of this lesion On my hiney region Is Hansen's from my armadillo." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 20:12 |
| #13 Jerkface Killa = pillow biter? Say it ain't so, Zo! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-02 19:55 |
| #12 You're becoming a national treasure, ZenFlo. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-09-02 19:22 |
| #11 #10 Jerkface Killa = wanker Squeaked Jerky, inspecting a chancre, "I wonder if it was the banker? Or was it the soldier, Or Red Eric Holder, Or maybe my darling First Shanker?" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 19:19 |
| #10 Jerkface Killa = wanker |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-02 19:05 |
| #9 [jerky on deterrence; also this gem: "I-CHI-WAH-WAH"] To jaw-jaw is better than war-war, Especially for a chihuahua; To posture and snap Is more fun than to scrap -- Just like our Canadian Haw-Haw! |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-02 19:04 |
| #8 ^^ Bleat of the sheep. Same intelligence |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-02 18:52 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Jerkface Killa 2014-09-02 18:34 |
| #6 Inclined to agree with Badanov, to bring so many different units means either Russia is cherry picking people from the individual MRB's to form something resembling a trained unit or it is getting some field/combat experience to units, officers and long service NCO's to build brigades and divisions around. |
| Posted by: Chantry 2014-09-02 18:23 |
| #5 Pretty damn well done ground OB Badanov. Anyone seen a Russian Air Force OB? If not, why not? Might Vlad be reluctant to chance a NATO air engagement? Comments ? Every military district can field around 350 combat aircraft, if they are fully mobilized. Additionally, you have to consider Russian Air Defense Command (PVO) which is a separate branch, which fields both ground antiaircraft means and interceptor aircraft necessary to defeat air threats. Also additionally, you have to consider naval aviation, some of which is based at Sevastopol, and others in ponds such as the Caspian. I have no hard data on available aircraft. Most of the ground interdiction airframes are part of frontal aviation, while air superiority aircraft are part of PVO. We have had a discussion in the O-club about this very matter, albeit just the ground OOB. My contention is that Putin has yet to mobilize any part of his ground forces, and is currently using GHQ units, which in a war would be operating as parts of fronts (which are military districts upon mobilization) and armies. You'll notice that the only divisions available are the airborne divisions. I also contend that the only units fully staffed and ready for war are the airborne units. Everything else (read; divisions) in order to be fielded must be filled with reservists and fillers. Putin appears to be doing the same thing he did in South Ossetia. Rounding up any yahoos they can find, stuff them inside a BMP, tell them they are spetsnaz, and to go stop a bullet for Mother Russia, while regular troops wait for their chance to move in. IOW, he's doing this all on the cheap. His forces, as large as they are are in no way ready for war. Before you get a peaceful, easy feeling about all that understand that in the late 1930s, no one was ready for war, not even Herr Hitler, but to war they went in 1939. This is similar to what our parents and grandparent saw back in the 1930. Just my two kopeks... |
| Posted by: badanov 2014-09-02 16:38 |
| #4 "That's an awful lot of firepower for a rescue mission." |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-09-02 15:33 |
| #3 A lot of these units appear to be from places like Chechnya, Dagestan and Ossetia. Are the troops themselves from those regions? If so, what does that mean? Is Vlad sending second and third stringers to do the dirty work? Is he giving them a chance to prove their loyalty? Or is he just holding the ethnic Russian boys in reserve? Didn't he follow a similar pattern in Georgia? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-09-02 11:39 |
| #2 Pretty damn well done ground OB Badanov. Anyone seen a Russian Air Force OB? If not, why not? Might Vlad be reluctant to chance a NATO air engagement? Comments ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-02 09:08 |
| #1 It's a highly organized spontaneous uprising. With a logistical trail 500km long. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-09-02 07:24 |