Cold War Gamer: Review - Web Resources, Soviet Armed Forces 1945

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Review - Web Resources, Soviet Armed Forces 1945 - 1991

The Web site, Soviet Armed Forces 1945 - 1991 offers a view of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 to 1991 for a range of Soviet Armed Forces. Under each of the force areas it organises its data to look at the various sub components and provide an overview of the source material used, most of this would appear to be Russian. The principal areas of the armed forces covered are:

So under Air Force it lists all the Soviet Air Armies and under each lists the units under command and their locations. Likewise for the Army it lists the Armies although organisational information is not currently available for all, it is for a majority. The information is organised from a number of perspectives and the site provides a number of ways to traverse the data and find the information being sought. Views are provided for each of the principal arms of service so you can also review by Tank Divisions, Motor Rifle Division, Fortified Areas orArtillery Divisions amongst others or you can drill down through the isted armies.

For the Army a range of sources are quoted the site data seems heavily underpinned by a number of Feskovs works and CFE data. Information provided includes activation and deactivation dates, base locations and major equipments where available. Much of this is CFE data so drawn from the back end of the Cold War. The more traditional Orbat, which units belonged to which divisions covers the whole of the period specified, at least for the Army. The Site scope is broad and is still a work in progress.

Having tried to translate with google a number of the reference documents some one trying too publish this data in english is a bit of a godsend. It will be interesting to see how the site develops but it is already looking like a bit of a treasure trove.

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irishserb2 August 2015 at 14:24
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Books

A Cardboard Castle, an Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 2005 V Mastny
A History of Soviet Airborn Forces, DM Glantz, 1994
Afgansty, The Russians in Afganistan 1979 -89, R Braithwaite
Afghanistan, Travels with the Mujahideen, Sandy Gall
AFM Vol 2 Part 2 Soviet Operational Art, British Army, 1991
AFM Vol 2 Part 3, Soviet Tactics, British Army. 1991
AFV Weapons 51, FV 433 Self Propelled Gun
AFV Weapons 53, The FV 432 series
Air Battle Central Europe, A Price 1986
Armies of NATOS Central Front, 1985, Isbey
BAOR in reforger, tankograd
BMP Infantry Fighting Vehicle 1967 - 1994, Osprey
Borderstrike! South Africa into Angola 1975 - 1980, W Steenkamp, 2006
Britains Armed Forces Today:3 British Army of The Rhine, T Gander 1984
Britains Modern Army, edition 1 1995, T Gander
British Army In Germany, An organisational History 1947 - 2007, GE Watson
British, 24 Airmobile Brigade, C Schultz 1999
Camouflaged Uniforms of the Warsaw Pact and Non Aligned Forces, JF Borsarello, 1989
Canada's NATO Brigade: A History
Challenger Main Battle Tank 1982 - 1997, Osprey
Cheiftains, B Forrest Webb
Chieftain Main Battle Tank 1965 - 2003, Osprey
Claws of The Bear, B Moynahan
Cold War Armoured Fighting Vehicles, AFV Plans, G Bradford
Confrontation, The Strategic Geography of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, Faringdon
Desert Fire, The Diary of a Gulf War Gunner, A Gillespie, 2001
First Clash; Kenneth Macksey
FM 100-2-1 Soviet Army, Operations and Tactics, US Army
FM 100-2-2 Soviet Army Specialised Warffare and Rear Area Support, US Army
FM 100-2-3 Soviet Army Troops Organisation and Equipment, US Army
Forces' 85
Forces' 86
Forces' 87
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Infantry of the Line, TJ Gander, 1988
Inside Spetsnaz, Soviet Special Operations a critical analysis, WH Burges, 1990
Inside The Soviet Army Today, Osprey
Inside The Soviet Army, V Suverov
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Mechanised Infantry, Brasseys 1980, RE Simpkin,
Mil Mi-8/Mi-17, Rotary-Wink Workhorse and Warhorse, Yrfim Gordon
Mil's Heavyweight HelicoptersYefim Gordon, 2005
Military Balance 1979 - 1980, IISS
Military Balance 1981 - 1982, IISS
Military Balance 1983 -1984, IISS
Military Balance 1986 - 1987, IISS
Military Balance 1990 - 1991, IISS
Military Balance 1993 - 1994, IISS
Modelling the M113 Series, Osprey
Modern African Wars (1) Rhodesia 65-80, Osprey
Modern African Wars (2) Angola Mozambique 61-74, Osprey
Modern African Wars (3), South West Africa
Modern Fighting Men Uniforms and Equipment since WW2, Pimlott & Gilbert
NATO Armies Today, Osprey
Portugals Guerrilla Wars in Africa, A J Venter,2013
Rats Tails - 1 Staffords in Gulf War 1, N Benson
Red Armour, An Examination of the Soviet Mobile Force Concept, R Simpkin, 1984
Red Army; Ralph Peters
Red Banner, The Soviet Military System in Peace and War, C Donnelly, 1988
Red God of War, Soviet Artilery and Rocket Forces, Brassey's 1986, C Bellamy
Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy
Red Thrust, S Zaloga
Royal Scots in The Gulf, L Milner 1994
Russia's War in Afganistan, Osprey
Scorpion Reconnaissance vehicle 1972 - 1994, Osprey
South African Armour of the Border War 1975 - 89, Osprey
South African Arms & Armour, 1988, H Romer Heitman
South African Special Forces, Osprey
South African War Machine, Heitman
Soviet AirLand Battle Tactics, 1986, WP Baxter
Soviet Blizkrieg Theory, PH Vigor, 1983
Soviet Bloc Elite Forces, Osprey
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Soviet Naval Tactics, Milan Vego, 1992
Soviet Tactical Aviation, 2011, Yefim Gordon
Soviet/Russian Armour and Artillery Design Practices:1945 to Present
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Spetznaz, V Suverov, 1988
Sword Point, Harold Coyle
T 54 -T55 Main Battle Tank 1944 - 2004, Osprey
T 80 Standard Tank, Osprey
T-62 Main Battle Tank 1965 - 1980, Osprey
T-72 M1, Topshots
T-72 Main Battle Tank 1974 - 1993, Osprey
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Tank War Central Front, Osprey
Ten Million Bayonets; DC Isby
The Armed Forces of the USSR, 1984, HF Scott, WF Scott
The Basic Principals of Operational Art and Tactics, A Soviet View, V, Ye, Sakvin, 1972
The Bear went over the Mountain, Soviet tactics in Afghanistan, W Grau
The British Army 1965 - 80, Osprey
The British Army in the 1980's, Osprey
The Cold War a Military History, D Miller 1998
The Encyclopaedia of Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles, CF Foss
The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, Part 2 1965 - 1991, H Orenstein & DM Glanz
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War, P Polack 2013
The Modern British Army; edition 3 1986 Terry Gander
The Modern Royal Air Force, 1988, T Gander
The Race to the Swift, R Simpkin, 1985
The Royal Armoured Corps in The Cold War 1946-1990, M Robinson & R Griffin, 2016
The Royal Marines in the 90's, Evans
The SADF in the Border War, L Scholtz, 2013
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The Third World War, A Future History; General Sir John Hacket
The Third World War, The Untold Story; General Sir John Hackett
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The Voroshilov Lectures, Materials from the Soviet General Staff Academy, Volume III Issues of Operational Art
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Weapons and Tactics of The Soviet Army; David C Isby

Rules

Able Archer, Cold War 83-84 adaptions for Rapid Fire!
Ambush Alley, Ambush Alley Games
Armoured Warfare 1950 - 1985, WRG
Battlefront, Fire and Fury Games
Battlegroup 2009 for War in Angola
Battlezones, Rea-Taylor
Chain of Command, Two Fat Lardies
Challenger, Rea-Taylor
Cold War Commander, Jones
Crossfire, Conliffe
Crossfire, Contre Les Viets
Crossfire, Hit The Dirt, Rutherford & Lewis
Crossfire, Volume of Fire
Fire Fight, Rea-Taylor
Fist Full of Tows 2, Beard
Force on Force, Ambush Alley Games
Force on Force, Bush Wars, Africa 1960-2010, AAG
Force on Force, Cold War Gone Hot, Ambush Alley Games
IABSM, B'amaso, TFL
Modern Spearhead, Marcis & Moher
Rapid Fire, Rumford & Marsh