Accession Number:

ADA151578

Title:

Equipment of the Warsaw Pact.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

INFANTRY DIV (MECHANIZED) (1ST) FORT RILEY KS

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1983-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

89.0

Abstract:

Beginning in the late 60s 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.

Descriptors:

• *WEAPON SYSTEMS
• *MILITARY EQUIPMENT
• *COMBAT VEHICLES
• *WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES
• *ARMORED VEHICLES
• AIR DEFENSE
• USSR
• MOBILITY
• LAND WARFARE
• ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• SURVIVABILITY
• MILITARY VEHICLES
• ANTIAIRCRAFT WEAPONS
• TRUCKS
• ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS
• CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• FIREPOWER
• ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE SYSTEMS
• TACTICAL WEAPONS
• TANKS(COMBAT VEHICLES)
• MILITARY TRANSPORTATION
• ANTITANK WEAPONS
• ROCKET LAUNCHERS
• MECHANIZATION
• EAST GERMANY
• HOWITZERS
• SELF PROPELLED GUNS
• WEAPONS CARRIERS

Subject Categories:

• Combat Vehicles
• Guns

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE