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Zraver Reply
Zraver,
There was a LOT more tactical reconnaissance assets employed by Soviet divisions than you've acknowledged. At this point, eight companies within a division of which six are tasked w/ that mission.
These forces didn't engage in screening the approach march of the division's combat elements. I've accounted for that as well. Somehow you believe that Soviet officers wouldn't overwatch their security forces. Is this true?
Soviet systems evolved as rapidly as U.S. Zraver, what's the range of sagger? Can it penetrate an M-60A3TTS? They hulled Centurions and M-60A1s nicely in the Sinai. Reactive armor? Later than 1980, for sure?
I don't need a helicopter if a church steeple view is what I'm getting and I wouldn't attempt rising much above that church steeple were I you. Europe has bad weather and low visibility conditions often. We've no significant advantage there in their AD environ until the OH-58D emerged.
M901? You are young. For the seventies our TOW gunners didn't have such luxuries and fired uncovered and EXPOSED.
Human material? Ours wasn't better into the eighties. Maybe worse in MANY cases. We didn't piss-test for dope before late 1981. Meanwhile, I've tried to make my case that the human material used in the Soviet reconnaissance units was their highest quality ground troops but either that doesn't matter or you've missed it. I'd also make my case that GSFG received the best human material, in general, which the Soviet Union had to offer.
Personally, were it 1976 and the GSFG was crossing the IGB, I'd leave those thoughts at the door. They wouldn't help you one bit.
I'll leave it here.
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