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Development of Red Army tactics began during the Russian Civil War, and are still a subject of study within Russian military academies today. They were an important source of development in military theory, and in particular of armoured warfare before, during and after the Second World War, in the process influencing the outcome of World War II and the Korean War.
The Soviet Union's military was the first to officially distinguish the third level of military thinking which occupied the position between strategy and tactics. [ 1 ] Using these templates, the Soviets developed the concept of deep battle, and by 1936, it had become part of the Red Army field regulations.
Soviet historians disagreed on which operations to classify as strategic or front-level, and the names of operations often differed between early military studies and later official histories. In the 1960s 40 strategic operations were discussed, in the 1970s this expanded to 55, and by the beginning of the 1980s, "more than 50."
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Tank desant (Russian: танковый десант, tankovyy desant) is a military combined arms tactic where infantry soldiers ride into an attack on tanks, then dismount to fight on foot in the final phase of the assault. Note that this differs from infantry troops merely riding on tanks as a form of ad-hoc transportation.
Motor Rifle Troops of the USSR (Russian: Мотострелковые войска СССР) were a main branch of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.They were mechanised infantry formations using combined arms doctrine, based around infantry operating closely with armoured personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, aided by organic armour and artillery.
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, [a] often shortened to the Red Army, [b] was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars [1] to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups ...
Reports from the Russo-Ukrainian War cited in the July–September 2016 edition of the US military journal Armor identified BTGs as the majority of Russian units deployed there. These BTGs comprised a tank company, three mechanised infantry companies, two anti-tank companies, two or three artillery batteries, and two air-defence batteries. [21]