CWR2 - Soviet Naval Forces

Introduction

The CWR2 Addon Soviet Naval Infantry was released in summer 2014. It contains soviet naval soldiers and equipment around the year 1985.

Backround (1945 - 1991)

In February 1946, the Red Fleet was renamed and became known as the Soviet Navy (Russian: Советский Военно-Морской Флот, translit. Sovyetsky Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, lit. 'Soviet Military Maritime Fleet'). After the war, the Soviets concluded that they needed a navy that could disrupt supply lines, and display a small naval presence to the developing world. As the natural resources the Soviet Union needed were available on the Eurasian land mass, it did not need a navy to protect a large commercial fleet, as the western navies were configured to do. Later, countering seaborne nuclear delivery systems became another significant objective of the navy, and an impetus for expansion.

The Soviet Navy was structured around submarines and small, maneuverable, tactical vessels. The Soviet shipbuilding program kept yards busy constructing submarines based upon World War II German Kriegsmarine designs, which were launched with great frequency during the immediate post-war years. Afterwards, through a combination of indigenous research and technology obtained through espionage from Nazi Germany and the Western nations, the Soviets gradually improved their submarine designs, though they initially lagged behind the western North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries by a decade or two.

The Soviets were quick to equip their surface fleet with missiles of various sorts. Indeed, it became a feature of Soviet design to place large missiles onto relatively small, but fast, missile boats, while in the West such an approach would never have been considered tactically feasible. The Soviet Navy did also possess several very large and well-armed guided-missile cruisers, like those of the Kirov and Slava classes. By the 1970s, Soviet submarine technology was in some respects more advanced than in the West, and several of their submarine types were considered superior to their American rivals.

The 5th Operational Squadron (ru:5-я Средиземноморская эскадра кораблей ВМФ) operated in the Mediterranean Sea. The squadron's main function was to prevent largescale naval ingress into the Black Sea, which could bypass the need for any invasion to be over the Eurasian land mass. Flagship of the squadron was for a long period the Sverdlov class cruiser Zhdanov.

In 1961, the Naval Infantry was re-formed and became one of the active combat services of the Navy. Each Fleet was assigned a Marine unit of regiment (and later brigade) size. The Naval Infantry received amphibious versions of standard Armoured fighting vehicle, including tanks used by the Soviet Army. By 1989, the Naval Infantry numbered 18,000 marines, organized into a Marine Division and 4 independent Marine brigades. By the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Navy had over eighty landing ships, as well as two Ivan Rogov-class landing ships. The latter could transport one infantry battalion with 40 armoured vehicles and their landing craft. (One of the Rogov ships has since been retired.)

At 75 units, the Soviet Union had the world's largest inventory of combat air-cushion assault craft. In addition, many of the 2,500 vessels of the Soviet merchant fleet (Morflot) could off-load weapons and supplies during amphibious landings.

A proclamation of the Soviet government on July 14, 1991, which was later adopted by its successor states, provided that all "treaty-limited equipment" (tanks, artillery and armored vehicles) assigned to naval infantry or coastal defense forces, would count against the total treaty entitlement.

Requirements

Cold War Rearmed² is required for this Expansion, this is not a standalone addon. ARMA 2: Combined Operations (ARMA 2 + Operation Arrowhead) v1.62 is required to use the Cold War Rearmed² Modification.

Content (1.02)

Soldiers

• AA Specialist
• Asst. AT Specialist
• Asst. Machine Gunner
• Asst. RPG Gunner
• AT Specialist
• Automatic Rifleman
• Crewman
• Engineer
• Grenadier
• Machine Gunner
• Marksman
• Medic
• Medic (Beret)
• Officer
• Officer (Night)
• Pilot
• Rifleman
• Rifleman (Beret)
• Rifleman (Mortar)
• RPG Gunner
• Squad Leader
• Spetsnaz
• Spetsnaz (Assault)
• Spetsnaz (Night)

Summer

• AA Specialist
• Asst. AT Specialist
• Asst. Machine Gunner
• Asst. RPG Gunner
• AT Specialist
• Automatic Rifleman
• Engineer
• Grenadier
• Machine Gunner
• Marksman
• Medic
• Medic (Beret)
• Officer
• Officer (Night)
• Rifleman
• Rifleman (Beret)
• Rifleman (Mortar)
• RPG Gunner
• Squad Leader

Spetsnaz

• AA Specialist
• AT Specialist
• Automatic Rifleman
• Grenadier
• Machine Gunner
• Marksman
• Medic
• Rifleman
• RPG Gunner

Vehicles

Air

• Ka-27
• Ka-32A7
• Yak-38 (AGM)
• Yak-38 (CAS)

Car

• BRDM-2
• BRDM-2 (ATGM)
• BRDM-2UM
• UAZ-469
• UAZ-469 (DShKM)

Trucks

• Ural 375D (Closed)
• Ural 375D (Open)

Tanks

• BTR-60
• MT-LBM
• MT-LBM (ZU-23)
• T-55AMV

Support

• MT-LBM (Ambulance)
• MT-LBM (Repair)
• Ural 375D (Fuel)
• Ural 4320 (Ammo)

Credits

• Colonel Stagler: Project Lead, Models, Textures
• Sander: Configs, Models
• von Knudenberg: Propaganda
• W0lle: Configs, Models, Dokumentation

External Developers/Contributors

• Archbishop Lazarus T-55 Model
• Gnat Ka-27 Model
• PRACS MTLB Models
• Vilas MTLB Models

See also

• Preview video
• Documentation