Re: [FH] What do you call in Drop Troops the NSL

--- Matt Tope <mptope@omnihybrid.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Along not so similar lines to the previous posts,
> could anyone tell me 
> the Russian for Naval Infantry?

Morskoy Pekhoty.

Unit titles include 

Separate Naval Infantry Brigade [otdelnaya brigada
morskoy pekhoty, OBRMP]

Separate Naval Infantry Battalions [otdelnyy batalion
morskoy pekhoty, OBMP]

Assault-Landing Battalions [desantno-shturmovyy
batalion, DShB]

Assault-Landing BNs are intended primarily for air
assault, airborne (? depends on source), and
hovercraft attacks and are equipped entirely with
manportable equipment.	They seem to have APCs on the
MTOE which link up with them after they assault. 
Naval Infantry BNs are heavy mechanized (supposed to
be receiving BMP-3s, but Russian Fed can't afford that
yet) to be deployed by landing craft.  A brigade has
3-4 of the OBMP and 1-2 DShB.

A brigade also has, as of 2000, a tank batallion
(supposed to have T-80s, most don't) and a second one
in wartime-only storage, a parachute-trained recon BN,
2 BNs of artillery (total: 2 BTY 122mm, 2 BTY 152mm, 4
BTY 120mm, all SP), an AT BN (1 towed gun battery, 1
BRDM missle battery) and an AA BTY.  This is all 'by
the book' and like most other parts of the Russian
military reality does not live up to these
expectations. 

John

	
		
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