BMPT Afterall?

[Feanor]

Ran into an interesting slip in an article on arms-tass.

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They say that they have completed the state defense program one month ahead and that the prime minister Vladimir could himself verify the quality of the T-90 and BMPT in a recent visit. It doesn't say it outright but it may be implying BMPTs are part of the state defense order. I know a pre-production batch was ordered in 2007 for testing and evaluations. Could they be included in the state defense order plan?

More interesting then that, is there now room for these vehicles in the new brigade structure? A tank brigade could certainly benefit from a btln of BMPTs, but there are only 4-5 tank brigades in the country at the moment. I'm not so sure about motor-rifles brigades.

Opinions?

 

[eckherl]

Ran into an interesting slip in an article on arms-tass.

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They say that they have completed the state defense program one month ahead and that the prime minister Vladimir could himself verify the quality of the T-90 and BMPT in a recent visit. It doesn't say it outright but it may be implying BMPTs are part of the state defense order. I know a pre-production batch was ordered in 2007 for testing and evaluations. Could they be included in the state defense order plan?

More interesting then that, is there now room for these vehicles in the new brigade structure? A tank brigade could certainly benefit from a btln of BMPTs, but there are only 4-5 tank brigades in the country at the moment. I'm not so sure about motor-rifles brigades.

Opinions?

This is new to you, Russia was always factoring in adding them to their new force structure, it was just a matter of time before they figured out on how to augment them into the new force structure, they will be more effective in a urbanized setting versus a tank.

 

[Feanor]

What's new to me is that there seems to actually be a serial production run for the army. And that's what I'm questioning. As well as how they will be used in the existing force structure.

 

[eckherl]

What's new to me is that there seems to actually be a serial production run for the army. And that's what I'm questioning. As well as how they will be used in the existing force structure.

I think right now they are leaning towards placing them with tank units and branching them off where support is needed, I would think that they would place them with the ground pounder units seeings how they are the ones who will benefit from them, could be a logistical concern though for their reasoning.

Have the Russians even announced what the actual land force structure plan is that they want to go with, right now I find it confusing.

 

[Feanor]

Nothing official but unofficially I have a pretty good picture of MR brigades. It looks something like this:

MR Brigade
HQ
NBC Company
REB (SIGINT/ELINT/EW) company
Comms Btln
Howitzer SP Arty Btln (2S19)
MLRS Btln (BM-21)
Anti-Tank Btln (2S25, and Kornet on BMP-3 (9П162))
Missile Air-Defense Btln (Tor-M1 and Igla-1)
Arty-AD Btln (Tunguska, Strela-10, Igla-MANPADS)
Radar Platoon
Tank Btln (4 companies 10 tanks, + command tank, T-72-80-90 (T-62s have been removed from service entirely))
3 MR-Btlns (MT-LB, BTR, BMP, depending on brigade, brigades are no longer mixed between the types)
Engineers Btln
Artillery Command Company

EDIT: I suspect that Tank brigades simply invert the numbers of MR and Tank btlns. That's the way it worked with divisions, and pre-reform brigades.