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By 1987, "battalion tactical group" was used to describe Soviet combined arms battalions. [11] Battalion tactical groups were seen in the Soviet–Afghan War. [12] The Soviets expanded the combined arms battalion concept as part of the "Army 2000" restructuring plan to make the army more agile and versatile for future war. [13]
The last Soviet units left Afghanistan in February 1989. Army commander Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to cross back into the Soviet Union at Termez on 15 February 1989, covered by the reconnaissance battalion of the 201st Motor Rifle Division. After the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, 40th Army was reduced to 59th Army Corps.
The First Panjshir Offensive took place in April 1980, four months after the arrival of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It involved three Soviet battalions, of which one was the fourth battalion of the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade led by Captain Leonid Khabarov, and 1,000 men of the Afghan Army, more specifically the 37th Commando Brigade, and ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was an armed conflict that took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen.
The Battle for Hill 3234 (Russian: Бой у высоты 3234, romanized: Boy u vysoty 3234) was a successful defensive battle fought by the 9th Company of the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment, Soviet Airborne Troops, part of Operation Magistral, supported by the Afghan Army’s 15th Tank Brigade, 8th, 11th, 12th, 214th, 25th Infantry Division and the 37th Commando Battalion, in ...
The Marmoul offensives were a series of military operations conducted by Soviet troops, KGB Border Guards of the USSR and DRA government forces, more specifically the 203rd Special Purpose Battalion, against Afghan mujahideen in the provinces of Balkh and Samangan in northern Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Operation Magistral was a success for the Soviet army, but occurred too late in the war to have any lasting effect. When the main Soviet force had withdrawn, Mujahideen groups cut off Khost once again, as they had done since 1981. In April 1988, by signing the Geneva Accords the Soviet Union became committed to withdrawing its forces from ...
An Afghanka-wearing Soviet Spetsnaz team preparing for a mission at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan in 1988 In December 1979, the undercover Spetsnaz GRU unit codenamed " Muslim Battalion " participated in Operation Storm-333 , the successful mission to assassinate Hafizullah Amin , the President of Afghanistan , and to capture Amin's residential ...