CO/BN level tactics for Opfor

[BuffaloSoldier]

Anybody know where I could find some good literature on Opfor tactics at the company or battalion level? I want my Opfor to look and act "smart", but I only have a very general idea as to what Opfor should look like.

Buff.

[ShotMagnet]

Welcome aboard.

For official sources, go to Google and try something like "Soviet Doctrine", or "Soviet Military Doctrine". You'll probably scare up a link that takes you to an army manual of some sort.
For unofficial sources, read Red Army, by Ralph Peters. Great first-person view of Soviet Doctrine. You might try reading some WWII Eastern Front history. The core of modern Soviet (Cold War-era) doctrine can be found by reading about Operation Bagration, and noting the fight for Berlin, Budapest, etc.
Good hunting, I'm going to check Google myself to see if I can find anything specific.

Shot

[ShotMagnet]

Try this:

http://www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/defense-e.html

Didn't look too hard at it, but it looked like it had a lot of useful links.

Shot

[ShotMagnet]

Try this one, too:

http://www.sovietarmy.com/documents/evolution.html

Lots to read, but a quick skim said to me that there was some useful general information.

Shot

[ShotMagnet]

Okay, one more:

http://www.sovietarmy.com/index.html

Hope these help.

Shot

[Dreadnaught]

Here is one also:
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/RED-STAR/RED-STAR.HTM

[Mpat120]

FM 100-2-1

The Soviet Army
Operations And Tactics

[GsMcAmis]

This is authorized for unlimited distrubution (Public Access)

I had to wade through UFO's and Russian made distrubtor caps to bring you this page.
(Many Bothans died to bring us this information.)

https://hosta.atsc.eustis.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/accp/is3003/toc.htm

Topics covered by this:
TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

SUBCOURSE OVERVIEW

LESSON ONE: SOVIET ARMED FORCES ORGANIZATION

Introduction
Components of Soviet Armed Forces
Field Forces Organization
Practice Exercise 1

LESSON TWO: SOVIET OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS

Tactical Formations and Movement
Attack Against Defending Enemy
Meeting Engagement
Pursuit
Practice Exercise 2

LESSON THREE: A SOVIET DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS

Defense Doctrine
Prepared Defense
Hasty Defense
Withdrawal
Practice Exercise 3

LESSON FOUR: SOVIET SPECIAL OPERATIONS AND FORCES

Airborne Assault Operations
Naval Infantry Forces
Practice Exercise 4

IS3003 Edition B Examination

APPENDIX: ACRONYMS


NOTE: You will get a warning message saying stuff about 'security' etc. This is in refernce to HTML documents. Your computer is warning you that "I don't know who this is from exactly... you sure you want me to go here?" and is not warning you that you are about to be surrounded by black choppers (uh-60s or Harley Davidsons) and/or getting your door kicked in followd by a flash-bang device. All this info is intended for wide public distrubutiion (or else I would have never have found it... and even if it had, I would have never have posted it here.)

If this link ceases to work... lemme know.

The downside is you won't be able to take the exams (and have them scored)

[BuffaloSoldier]

Wow.

Outstanding intel grab guys, thank you. I have the "Red Army" novel by Peters and it's very good. I'll go digging into this info and try and drum up some scenarios. Once again gents, thank you for the work.

Buff.

[Hackworth]

Red Army still goes down as one of my favorite war novels... I've owned it about 6 times in paper back and hard back... It resides next to my copy of Panzer Leader near my toilet :) Great read. If anyone who is reading this has not read this book - better go grab it.

[Winder]

Are those books fiction or fact (meaning are they novels rather than fantasy!) I imagine if they are novel they will be well grounded in fact of course.

[Hackworth]

Red Army is fiction founded on fact ;) It is a"what if" on the Cold War entirely from the Soviet point of view. Check it out!

[Werewolf]

Welcome aboard.

For official sources, go to Google and try something like "Soviet Doctrine", or "Soviet Military Doctrine". You'll probably scare up a link that takes you to an army manual of some sort.

Shot

Just a quick question? :P
Why does everyone just automatically assume that OPFOR means Soviet? Couldn't it refer to German or French or English or Israeli or US or Chinese or California or Texas or ...

[Ssnake]

Just a quick question? :P
Why does everyone just automatically assume that OPFOR means Soviet? Couldn't it refer to German or French or English or Israeli or US or Chinese or California or Texas or ... Because nobody has propagated and "proliferated" their battle tactics and OOB to so many other countries like the Soviet Union. So chances are that when you meet a former client state of them Soviets today, they could still operate according to their doctrine, which, if performed competently, works well as countless NTC runs tell us. ;)

[I2R06]

Sorry to jump on an old thread. But has anyone found FM 100-2-1 online? I tried theArmy's Reimer Manuals site, but couldn't find it.

[ShotMagnet]

http://www.globalsecurity.org

12R06,

Try the link above. You have to nav the site a bit, but you'll eventually come to something that lists lots of Army manuals. Not sure if the one you're looking for is on this site, but there are lots of others, covering topics great and small.


WARNING!
Don't confuse .org with .com, you will get two entirely different sites. Ask me how I know.

Shot

[charlie_zero_five]

Current US OPFOR manuals are:

FM 100-60
ARMOR- AND MECHANIZED-BASED OPPOSING FORCE: ORGANIZATION GUIDE, 16 JUL 1997
http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/100-60/fm100-60.htm

FM 100-61
ARMOR- AND MECHANIZED-BASED OPPOSING FORCE OPERATIONAL ART, 26 JAN 1998
http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/100-61/toc.htm

FM 100-63
INFANTRY-BASED OPPOSING FORCE ORGANIZATION GUIDE, 18 APR 1996
http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/100-63/toc.htm

Officially to the US, Soviet Doctrine is not trained against anymore. Everything is now called OPFOR



You can also try to grab "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" ...or something like that ..lol

It is a collection of Russian Commander's vingettes of their war in Afghanistan, with sketches of the battles.

Like the West, they don't always follow their own doctrine, and change with the enemy situation, (sometimes), and is a little easier to read than soviet doctrine.

Also one thing they do which isn't in their doctrine is the "bronesgruppa" the Mechanized technique of moving dismount Infantry from their carriers, and using the vehicles far away to support their manuever.

Current "threat" or OPFOR doctrine has been rewritten alot in the past years, after the collapse of the Soviets, but is still used alot today.

heres a link for the title of the book, should be able to find it in a library (no im not trying to sell it, i've got it tho, cuz its required reading for mech Infantry guys;)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714648574/inktomi-bkasin-20/002-4660947-7504866