Soviet Tanks Crossing a River
by Ronald C. Wittmann, 1985
In the mid-1980s, 28,000 of the USSR's 52,000 main battle tanks threatened NATO in Central Europe. The Soviets also pre-positioned some 27,000 meters of pontoon bridges and other river crossing equipment in Eastern Europe to speed the forward thrust of the Red Army's tank and motorized rifle divisions in the event of conflict.
