Equipment of the Warsaw Pact.

Abstract

Beginning in the late 60's and continuing into the present, the Soviets conducted a dramatic increase in the mechanization of their ground combat forces. With the introduction of a wide variety of new self-propelled weapons systems, they managed to increase significantly the tactical mobility, firepower, and survivability of those forces on both the nuclear and chemically contaminated battlefield. This booklet, through photographs and brief discriptions, is designed to provide the reader with an appreciation of the capabilities of the equipment employed by three of the major members of the Warsaw Pact, the USSR, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. It is an unclassified document based on information from open sources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA151578

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Altitude
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Units
  • Bridges
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineers
  • Firing Rate
  • Guns
  • Payload
  • Reconnaissance Vehicles
  • River Crossings
  • Self Propelled
  • Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Library and Information Science
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.