CWR2 - Soviet Airborne Infantry
| CWR2 - Soviet Airborne Infantry | |
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| 2D | Colonel Stagler |
| 3D | Colonel Stagler |
| Script | W0lle |
| Code | W0lle |
| Missions | W0lle |
| External | Vilas |
| Released | Yes |
| Release date | March 2015 |
| Version | 1.7 - December 2019 |
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| Web | http://cwr2.arma2.fr/ |
| Link | Download |
Introduction
The CWR2 Addon Soviet Airborne Infantry was released in March 2015. It contains Soviet Paratroopers soldiers and equipment around the year 1985.
Backround
The Soviet Airborne Troops or VDV was a military branch of the Soviet Forces. First formed before World War II, the force undertook two significant airborne operations and a number of smaller jumps during the war and for many years after 1945 was the largest airborne force in the world. The force was split after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, losing divisions to Belarus and Ukraine, and has been reduced in size. Russian airborne forces have traditionally worn a blue beret and blue-striped telnyashka and are called "desant" (Russian: Десант) from the French "Descente".
HQ 9th Guards Army was redesignated Headquarters Airborne Forces in June 1946 after the war ended. The units of the Army were removed from the order of battle of the Air Forces of USSR and assigned directly to the Ministry of Armed Forces of USSR. The creation of the post-war Soviet Airborne Forces owe much to the efforts of one man, Army General Vasily Margelov, so much so that the abbreviation of VDV in the Airborne Forces is sometimes waggishly interpreted as "Войска дяди Васи", "Uncle Vasya's Troops". Airborne units of two divisions (7th and 31st Guards) were used during Soviet operations in Hungary during 1956, and the 7th Guards division was used again during the 1968 Operation Danube invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1979, the telnyashka became an official part of the uniform.
However, there was also a mistaken Western belief, either intentional Soviet deception or stemming from confusion in the West, that an Airborne Division, reported as the 6th, was being maintained at Belogorsk in the Far East in the 1980s. This maskirovka division was then 'disbanded' later in the 1980s, causing comment within Western professional journals that another division was likely to be reformed so that the Far East had an airborne presence.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, the number of VDV divisions has shrunk from seven to four, as well as four brigades and the brigade-sized training center.
Requirements
Cold War Rearmed²is 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 (1.03)
Soldiers
- Rifleman (RPG/backpack/unarmed/beret)
- AT Specialist
- AA Specialist
- Crewman
- Engineer
- Grenadier
- Machine Gunner
- Marksman
- Medic
- Pilot
- Squad Leader
- Team Leader
- Speznaz
Vehicles
- BMD-1M
- BTR-D
- BTR-RD
- BTR-ZD
Credits
- Colonel Stagler: Models, Textures
- W0lle: Documentation
See Also
| Addons for CWR2 | |
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| NATO |
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| Warsaw Pact |
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| Neutral |
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| Other | |
