Russian defensive engineer support includes many activities but countermobility is particularly important.
Russian forces use a range of conventional countermobility capabilities as well as improvised and unconventional methods.
They will be emplaced throughout the entire depth of battalion defensive areas.
Countermobility capabilities are largely in a Brigade’s Engineer Battalion but combat subunits will also have organic countermobility.
Mobile obstacle detachments will be used for maximum effect.
Here are some common Russian countermobility systems. Note that rapid minelaying is emphasized.
Countermobility enhances defenses and helps shape the offense.
Assets are organic to combat units with additional capabilities from higher.
They will leverage ALL capabilities- traditional and unconventional.
LINKS --------------------
TRADOC G2 OEE Page: https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/
TRADOC G2 Russia Landing Zone: https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/how-russia-fights/
Interactive “How They Fight – Russia” https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/resources/HTF-RUS/
ThreatMinutes Russia Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2Zn7hPXT7co-1VMKZ8E44jjLjX3_6RG
CONTENT AND NARRATION SOURCES:
-ATP 7-100.1 “Russian Tactics” October 2023
-TC 7-100.2, “OPFOR Tactics” December 2011
SYSTEMS REFERENCED:
BAT-2/M: https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/BAT-M_Russian_Tracked_Route-Clearing_Vehicle
GMZ-3: https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/GMZ-3_Russian_Tracked_Minelaying_Vehicle
UMZ: https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/UMZ_Russian_6x6_Scatterable_Minelaying_System
IMAGE CREDITS:
“BAT-2/M”, Zandcee, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Counter_Obstacle_Vehicle_BAT-M_on_permanent_display_in_the_courtyard_of_Military-historical_Museum_of_Artillery,_Engineer_and_Signal_Corps_in_Saint-Petersburg,_Russia._Right_view.jpg
“GMZ-3”, Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GMZ-3_at_Engineering_Technologies_2012.jpg
“GMZ mine chute” Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EngineerExercise2020-20.jpg
“Kakhovka Reservoir”, Enno Lenze, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kakhovka_Reservoir_IMG_7123_(53022908679).jpg
“BMP-3” Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Army2016demo-011.jpg
“T-72M” Vojska Srbije, CC BY 3.0 RS, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T-72M.jpg
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