Russian army

Russian Army ( Russian Сухопутные войска Российской Федерации )
Emblem of the army
Lineup	May 7, 1992
Country	Russia
Armed forces	Russian armed forces
Armed forces	Russian army
Type	Armed forces
commander
commander	Army General Oleg Salyukov
insignia
Army flag
Sleeve badge
Medium emblem

The Russian Army ( Russian Сухопутные войска Российской Федерации , German transcription: Suchoputnyje woiska Rossiskoj Federazi ) are the land forces of the Russian armed forces . They were founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 and were formed from parts of the former Soviet army , which was in the process of withdrawing from several countries of the former Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union in the early 1990s . Today the army is the largest part of the Russian armed forces .

organization

Oleg Salyukov. Commander in Chief of the Army

The United Strategic Command (Military Districts) since December 2010

As a result of restructuring, even the command of the land forces was abolished between 1997 and 2001, which greatly reduced their weight as a branch of the armed forces . As a result of the last military reform of 2008, the land forces were organizationally divided into four military districts , which have been called the United Strategic Commands (Russian: Objedinjonnoje strategitscheskoje komandowanije, OSK) since December 1, 2010:

United Strategic Command Center with headquarters in Yekaterinburg , Sverdlovsk Oblast

2nd Army with staff in Samara , Samara Oblast

41st Army with staff in Novosibirsk , Novosibirsk Oblast

United Strategic Command East with headquarters in Khabarovsk , Khabarovsk region

5th Army with staff in Ussuriysk , Primorsky Krai

29th Army with staff in Chita , Transbaikalia region

35th Army with staff in Belogorsk , Amur Oblast

36th Army with staff in Ulan-Ude , Republic of Buryatia

United Strategic Command South with headquarters in Rostov-on-Don , Rostov Oblast

49th Army with staff in Stavropol , Stavropol Territory

58th Army with staff in Vladikavkaz , Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

United Strategic Command West with headquarters in St. Petersburg

6th Army with staff in Agalatowo near Sertolowo , Leningrad Oblast

20th Army with staff in Voronezh , Voronezh Oblast

The land forces consist of ground combat units ( motorized riflemen , tanks , armored vehicles, transporters and air defense units) and helicopters, as the entire army air force has recently been transferred to the responsibility of the air force .

The airborne troops , Russian VDW (Vosduschno-dessantnyje woiska, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска = ВДВ , English VDV) are directly subordinate to the High Command of the Armed Forces.

In 2006 the land forces comprised around 395,000 soldiers, including around 190,000 conscripts (as of 2006).

Since January 2010 Colonel-General Alexander Postnikov has been the Commander-in-Chief .

insignia

Further TSK-overlapping insignia of the land forces (LaSk) are shown below.

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  Emblem (small)
  (from 2001)

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  "Army of Russia"
  logo (commercial logo for souvenirs)

Equipment 2008

Prototype of the new T-14 main battle tank during the Victory Parade on May 9, 2015 in Moscow

Missile launch vehicle of the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system

Equipment 2008	number
Main battle tank	22,800 (including 6,500 active)
Armored personnel carriers	15,000 (including 6,000 active)
Armored transport	9900 (of which 6400 active)
Guns	12,765 (of which 7,550 active)
Self-propelled guns	6000 (including 3500 active)
Multiple rocket launchers	4500 (including 900 active)
mortar	6600 (including 2600 active)
Anti-aircraft missile systems	2500

modernization

The government aims to fundamentally modernize the army by the mid-2010s. Despite the Russian victory in the Georgia conflict in 2008 , deficiencies in equipment and organization became apparent. Wladislaw Putilin , the deputy head of the military-industrial commission, announced in December 2008 that the entire armed forces should receive a total of 400 new weapon systems. The budget available for this amounts to over 100 billion euros . For example, around 300 new tanks and 2,000 additional military vehicles are to be procured for the army . In 2013, Russia officially spent 4.4% of its economic output on the defense budget.

Weapons and equipment

Database: IISS Military Balance 2010 and Ria Novosti article.

Type	Country of production	Weapon system	number	Remarks
Main battle tank
T-14	Russia	Main battle tank	20th	Should replace the T-90 in the Russian army from 2016.
T-90	Russia	Main battle tank	600	250 to 280 of them in the T-90A version. Another 1000 to 1200 planned.
T-80	Soviet Union	Main battle tank	4500	1,224 T-80B, T-80BW, T-80U, T-80UM and T-80UD in active service as well as another 3,276 T-80 stored.
T-72	Soviet Union	Main battle tank	9550	1031 T-72s in active service and another 8000 vehicles in storage.
T-64	Soviet Union	Main battle tank	4100	100 T-64BW in active service and another 4,200 T-64A, T-64B and T-64BW in reserve.
T-62	Soviet Union	Medium battle tank	150	700 are stored
T-55	Soviet Union	Medium battle tank	1200
PT-76	Soviet Union	Light main battle tank , floating tank	150
Armored personnel carriers
BMP-1	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers , floating armored vehicles	1500	6600 in reserve or stored
BMP-2	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers , floating armored vehicles	4600
BMP-3 (ICV M1990 / 1)	Russia	Armored personnel carriers , floating armored vehicles	280
BRM-1K	Soviet Union	Reconnaissance tanks , swimming tanks	700	Reconnaissance command vehicle with radar system, command vehicle for reconnaissance companies
BMD-1 , BMD-2 , BMD-3	Soviet Union , Russia	Airborne tank	1500
Other armored vehicles
BTR-D	Soviet Union	Transport tanks , airborne tanks	700
MT-LB	Soviet Union	Transport tanks , floating tanks	3300
BTR-50	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers , floating armored vehicles	1000
BTR-60 , BTR-70 , BTR-80 (А), BTR-90	Soviet Union , Russia	Armored personnel carriers , floating armored vehicles	4900	Some BTR-90 are only in use at the Russian Interior Ministry
BRDM-2	Soviet Union	Reconnaissance tanks , swimming tanks	≈2000
GAZ-2975 Tigr , GAZ-2330 M	Russia	Off-road vehicle	350
Iveco LMV М65	Italy	Off-road vehicle	10	Around 1775 units are to be procured by 2015.
GAZ-3937 Vodnik	Russia	Off-road vehicle	?
BPM-97 (KAMAZ-43269)	Russia	Armored transport	?
Artillery systems
2S1 Gwosdika (M1974)	Soviet Union	122 mm self-propelled gun	2780
2S3 Akazija (M1973)	Soviet Union	152 mm self-propelled gun	1600
2S5 Giazint-S (M1981)	Soviet Union	152 mm self-propelled gun	950
2S19 Msta-S / 2S19M	Soviet Union , Russia	152 mm self-propelled gun	550
2S7 Pion (M-1975)	Soviet Union	203 mm self-propelled gun	130
2S9 Nona-S	Soviet Union	120 mm self-propelled gun	790	Mortar - cannon howitzer
2S23 Nona-SVK	Russia	120 mm self-propelled gun	30th	Mortar - cannon howitzer
D-30	Soviet Union	122 mm howitzer	4600
2A36 Giatsint-B	Soviet Union	152 mm howitzer	1100	see also: 2S5
2A65 Msta-S	Soviet Union , Russia	152 mm howitzer	750	see also: 2S19
D-20 (M1955)	Soviet Union	152 mm howitzer	1075
2S12 Sani	Soviet Union	mortar	920	As 2S12 on GAZ-66, 2S12A on Ural-4320, 2S12B "Dilemma-2S12" or 2S11 on MT-LB
Multiple rocket launchers
BM-21 (9K51 degrees)	Soviet Union	Multiple rocket launchers	2500
BM-27 (9P140 Uragan)	Soviet Union	Multiple rocket launchers	900
BM-30 (9A52 Smertsch)	Soviet Union	Multiple rocket launchers	126
TOS-1 Buratino, TOS-1A Kaunas	Soviet Union , Russia	Multiple rocket launchers	164
Anti-tank guided weapons
9M111 Fagot (AT-4 Spigot)	Soviet Union	Anti-tank guided missile
9M113 bankruptcy (AT-5 Spandrel)	Soviet Union	Anti-tank guided missile
9M114 Shower (AT-6 Spiral)	Soviet Union	Anti-tank guided missile
9K115-2 Metis-M (AT-13 Saxhorn-2)	Russia	Anti-tank guided missile
9K135 Kornet (AT-14 Spriggan)	Soviet Union , Russia	Anti-tank guided missile
Tactical ballistic surface-to-surface missiles
9K79 Totschka (SS-21 Scarab)	Soviet Union	Surface-to-surface missile	200
9K720 Iskander (SS-26 Stone)	Russia	Surface-to-surface missile	24
Anti-aircraft missile systems
S-300W (9A83)	Soviet Union	Anti-aircraft missile system	185	There are plans for a replacement from 2014 by S-500 Vitjas
9K37 Buk , 9K40 Buk-M2	Soviet Union , Russia	Anti-aircraft missile system	350
9K33 Osa	Soviet Union , Russia	Anti-aircraft missile system	550
9K35 Strela-10 , 9K35M3 Strela-10M3 (on BTR-60 PU-12M (9S482M), 9K35M3-K Kolchan)	Soviet Union , Russia	Anti-aircraft missile system	800
9K330 Tor , 9K331 Tor-M1, 9K332 Tor-M2	Soviet Union , Russia	Anti-aircraft missile system	120
2K22 Tunguska	Soviet Union	Anti-aircraft missile system	256
96K6 Panzir .	Russia	Anti-aircraft missile system	10
9K333 Werba .	Russia	Anti-aircraft missile system	?
UAV
ZALA 421-08	Russia	Unmanned aerial vehicle	?	Reconnaissance drone

Calls

• since 1992: Transnistria conflict (14th Army)
• 1994–1996: First Chechen War
• 1995–1996: Implementation Force (IFOR)
• 1996-2004: Stabilization Force (SFOR)
• 1999–2009: Second Chechen War
• 2006–2011: United Nations Mission in Sudan
• 2008: Caucasus War
• from 12/2016: civil war in Syria

See also

• Ranks of the Russian Land Forces
• Group of the Russian Armed Forces in Transcaucasia

Web links

Commons : Russian Land Forces  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Military Reform 1992–2002, ed. by Anne C. Aldis and Roger Mc Dermott, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, contribution by Michael Orr, pp. 131-133.
2. ↑ warfare.ru
3. ↑ Source: “Military International” on the official website of the Austrian Armed Forces
4. ↑ tank database , warfare.ru - Russian Military Analisis. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
5. ^ IFV & APC database , warfare.ru - Russian Military Analysis. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
6. ^ "Giving presents" to the Russian army ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ fr-online.de
8. ↑ T-14
9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.