Combat Engineering Equipment of the Warsaw Pact

ISBN-13: 9780995513341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str.

Russell Phillips

Opis

The Warsaw Pact's strategy called for rapid advances. Obstacles such as rivers and minefields could not be allowed to slow the combat units. Warsaw Pact combat engineers could rapidly build bridges, repair or recover broken-down vehicles, lay minefields, clear safe lanes through enemy minefields, and create field fortifications.Although less flexible than their western counterparts, the combat engineers of the Warsaw Pact were an effective force. Key to this effectiveness was their specialised equipment. Simple, rugged, and provided in greater quantity than in the West, it was proven in both peacetime exercises and combat operations in Afghanistan.