Battle for Grozny

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Battle for Grozny

Unread post by slade the sniper »

Hi all,

Not sure if anyone will be interested, but I found this translation of a Russian officers tour of duty in Grozny, Chechnya. It is a fairly poor translation, granted...but since I have been unable to really find many historical "eyewitness" accounts of Russian combat actions in the recent past, this will do.

It has a lot of pretty good urban and mounted combat TTPs that can be distilled out, a lot of gallows humor, standard soldier life in combat, and some pretty brutally graphic descriptions of combat and the aftermath...and I do not use the phrase brutally graphic lightly.

Can't speak to it's veracity, but it has the ring of truth to it.

Anyway, if you want to see what urban combat looks like sans the sheen of political correctness...

http://www.lib.ru/MEMUARY/CHECHNYA/chechen_war.txt

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Re: Battle for Grozny

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Seems reasonably plausible.

I remember some official studies of what happened to armour in Grozny . . . Point blank RPG shots into side and rear armour from rooftops and sewers. Overmatch (even an Abrams or Mrkava would have been penetrated at those angles) combined with the rather volitile internal ammunition arrangements of T-72s and T-80s caused horrific infernos.
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