How To Fight Soviet Air Mobile Operations

[Panzermann]

 

 

1980ies soviet cosplay

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

When an entire army had Ron Jeremy moustaches.

[Panzermann]

Note the M60 A2 in the intros.

 

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[Chris Werb]

When an entire army had Ron Jeremy moustaches.

 

What I'm not getting is, given the amount of radio use the Brigade HQ is engaging in, why haven't the Soviets DF'd it and taken it out with artillery?

 

The US also did not exploit a critical Soviet weakness - their inability to spot a narrator in their midst.

[shep854]

Coincidentally, I'm reading Red Storm Rising. At least the Red Force wasn't wearing the aggressor crest on their helmets.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

When an entire army had Ron Jeremy moustaches.

 

What I'm not getting is, given the amount of radio use the Brigade HQ is engaging in, why haven't the Soviets DF'd it and taken it out with artillery?

 

The US also did not exploit a critical Soviet weakness - their inability to spot a narrator in their midst.

 

 

 

If you read Daniel Bolgers 'The Battle for Hunger Hill' (and if you havent why not?) he has a few choice words to say about the American predilection for Command posts. He said the doctrine for their establishment in the manual was far too unwieldy, and that was in 1996!

 

No Gay Pornstar Music for the first team, real manly man music for Homo Soveticus.

[Stuart Galbraith]

This is quite good too, though as you can see, as always, the British were operating on a budget.

[Stuart Galbraith]

There is also an interesting West German one on fighting in FIBUA.

[lastdingo]

Gotta share this fancy "music" video.

 

 

About command posts: Doctrine requires the radio emitter to be more than a km away from the CP (connected by copper wire). This should work with semi-stationary ones, not so much on the move. Then again, CP on the move or in short breaks shouldn't be so easily identified and targeted.It's scary how well triangulation of radios + logging their radio traffic (who replies to whom?) can produce a hierarchy on a map. You can literally see where's the higher HQ, where are the subordinate HQs, where are their manoeuvre units (if they move little, talk much). This certainly works extremely well in slow pace conflicts as Donezk.

 

About airborne invasion: Defence of Iceland is an interesting case. There are practically no defenders, so they could be invaded about three hours after start of hostilities and occupied (Reykjavik) by an airborne brigade. The USMC would probably shout "here! here! our job!", but I doubt a counteroffensive makes much sense. The occupying power could use a lull in the fighting to pronounce a ceasefire and threaten with tac nukes in case of a countereoffensive on the ground or much bombing.

 

Iceland has 24 hrs daylight on some days and 24 hrs darkness on others. The climate is oceanic and thus not extreme. It's quite an interesting and unique terrain.

I suppose a pre-war race by some allied airborne + AEW + fighter squadron is the way to go.

 

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2018/03/iceland-security.html

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2018/03/oth-coverage-for-europe.html

Edited August 12, 2019 by lastdingo

[RETAC21]

Gotta share this fancy "music" video.

 

 

About command posts: Doctrine requires the radio emitter to be more than a km away from the CP (connected by copper wire). This should work with semi-stationary ones, not so much on the move. Then again, CP on the move or in short breaks shouldn't be so easily identified and targeted.It's scary how well triangulation of radios + logging their radio traffic (who replies to whom?) can produce a hierarchy on a map. You can literally see where's the higher HQ, where are the subordinate HQs, where are their manoeuvre units (if they move little, talk much). This certainly works extremely well in slow pace conflicts as Donezk.

 

About airborne invasion: Defence of Iceland is an interesting case. There are practically no defenders, so they could be invaded about three hours after start of hostilities and occupied (Reykjavik) by an airborne brigade. The USMC would probably shout "here! here! our job!", but I doubt a counteroffensive makes much sense. The occupying power could use a lull in the fighting to pronounce a ceasefire and threaten with tac nukes in case of a countereoffensive on the ground or much bombing.

 

Iceland has 24 hrs daylight on some days and 24 hrs darkness on others. The climate is oceanic and thus not extreme. It's quite an interesting and unique terrain.

I suppose a pre-war race by some allied airborne + AEW + fighter squadron is the way to go.

 

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2018/03/iceland-security.html

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2018/03/oth-coverage-for-europe.html

 

Re: CP's - there's much you are missing there. So much I don't have space to enlighten you.

Re: Iceland: 57th FIS 1954-1995