Soviets and the Chechans Interesting articles

[3rd Herd]

More interesting reading:
Russian-Manufactured Armored Vehicle Vulnerability in Urban Combat: The Chechnya Experience: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/rusav.htm

The Russian Experienceof Urban Combat: Some Lessons from Central Asia: http://www.defence.gov.au/army/lwsc/AbstractsOnline/AAJournal/2004_S/AAJ_Dec_03_Insights_Andrews.pdf

Chechen Heroes of the Soviet War : http://old.chechensociety.net/cho/cho33/033_02_en.htm

SMALL WARS JOURNAL: Chechnya http://smallwarsjournal.com/reference/chechnya.php

Russian Snipers : In the Mountains and Cities of Chechnya  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military//library/report/2002/snipers.pdf
NIGHT SNIPER:http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/documents/Night-sniper.pdf

A Weapon For All Seasons: The Old But Effective RPG-7 Promises to Haunt the Battlefields of Tomorrow
http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/documents/weapon.htm

Preserving Shock Action: A New Approach to Armored Maneuver Warfare
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Preserving%20Shock%20action.pdf

The Battle of Grozny: Deadly Classroom for Urban Combat :http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/99summer/thomas.htm

CHANGING RUSSIAN URBAN TACTICS: THE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE FOR GROZNY:http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/documents/grozny.htm

Grozny 2000: Urban Combat Lessons Learned:http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/documents/grozny2000/grozny2000.htm

The battle(s) of Grozny1:http://www.bdcol.ee/fileadmin/docs/bdreview/07bdr299.pdf

CHECHNYA: Urban Warfare Lessons Learned, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity—Arthur Speyer
http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF162/CF162.appc.pdf

 

[GAP]

These two quotes jumped out at me

Ignoring the issue of collateral damage,the Russians employed direct-fi re weapons with incendiary and thermobaric warheads against Chechen positions in Grozny. A thermobaric warhead, more accurately described as a ‘volumetric’ weapon, uses expanding gases or aerosols. Thermobarics are essentially slow-burning explosive slurries that compound the damage they cause in three ways.

First, they burn very slowly for an explosive, causing much greater ‘dwelling’ times of their explosive impulses on a target.

Second, the burning plasma cloud that is generated by the warhead can penetrate even the smallest cracks of a building or a vehicle, killing the occupants in a blast wave.

Third, when the slurry is totally consumed, a ‘vacuum bomb’ is created in the form of a massive back-blast that destroys human
beings in the area

Would this work against some of the places the CF was being fire upon from? Imagine the leftists uproar!!

The positive aspect lies in the Russian reintroduction of combined arms teams; the negative aspect lies in the Russian tolerance for
a level of collateral damage and civilian casualties that could not be accepted by any Western democracy operating under the law of armed conflict.

So True!!