Russian forces are implementing new offensive tactics to offset current combat power limitations in response to ongoing offensive setbacks.. This is evidenced by one of the military manuals that the Ukrainian military came across during the hostilities..
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A Ukrainian reserve officer posted a photo of the said manual, which details the tactics of the newly created "
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It is reported that the assault squad consists of six T-72 main battle tanks,? 12 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as collections of portable thermobaric multiple rocket launchers, anti-tank guided missile systems, towed artillery and self-propelled mortars.
We previously reported that Russia lost half of the pre-war number of T-72B and T-72B3M tanks.
The Institute for the Study of War in today's report dealt with other details of the information contained in the find.. Below details.
The assault detachment consists of three assault companies and a tank unit. Each assault company has a command element, two assault " Each company has one tank and four infantry fighting vehicles BMP / BMD-2 with anti-tank installations, heavy machine guns and mortars. The Ukrainian reserve officer noted that assault "
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It is reported that the air assault squad should conduct an assault less than a minute after the start of shelling of open fortified positions, while the platoon commander controls the mortar fire, the soldiers, divided into tactical groups of three, are the main maneuvering elements of the formation.
Priority - protecting tanks, not infantry.
The manual suggests that Russian troops are trying to adapt maneuver forces to smaller and more nimble military formations than were used earlier during the war.. The Ukrainian reserve officer noted that this new tactical formation is evidence that Russian forces have replaced the inactive battalion tactical group (BTG) with these smaller and more agile maneuver formations..
The manual states that Russian troops use T-72 tanks for direct fire support from the rear, and not as part of a combined arms group.
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The increased reliance on dismounted infantry and the transfer of tanks to fire support from the rear indicates that the Russian military leadership prefers the protection of main battle tanks over the protection of infantry, this reflects recent reports of significant losses of equipment that Russian armored units suffered during the year of the war.