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Modern Russian infantry appearance?
khurasanminiatures
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Posted: Monday, May 08, 2017 - 09:23 PM UTC
Hi, anyone here have images of the current appearance of Russian infantry in active service? I don't mean the "Little Green Men" who were special forces or other elites with the best equipment.

Last time the Russians actively went to war with line units was the Georgian intervention and at that time they had sort of a rag tag appearance. It's been over a decade since then, has the appearance of the average infantryman becomes more standardized?

No judgments here, the Israelis had a very ragtag appearance until fairly recently and were some of the best line infantry out there at that time. I just want an idea of what typical appearance is. As with their tanks, what they hold out to the world as being the current appearance isn't necessarily what they are actually using. (Even the T-90A is a minority type in actual service, and let's not even discuss the T-14 or "Terminator.")
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Posted: Monday, May 08, 2017 - 09:35 PM UTC
These guys are on maneuvers, so their kit is clean, and tight, but this is a standard Russian platoon (Belarus, c. 2017)
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Posted: Monday, May 08, 2017 - 10:10 PM UTC
Nice and tight and even have there grenade launcher with them.....behind that one dude.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 01:06 AM UTC
A few more examples :











H.P.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 06:18 PM UTC
Still a lot of AKM's appearing to be used as opposed to AK-74's?

Andy
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Posted: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 07:17 PM UTC

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Still a lot of AKM's appearing to be used as opposed to AK-74's?

Andy


Rarely, AKMS (folding stock) is used by some special forces (GRU), usually with a silencer (PBS-1). You can see some Polite Green Men i in Crimea with it.
If AKM is used at all, it would be some rear-area units, like artillery etc.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 10:18 PM UTC
This site has photos of Russian and Soviet military

http://englishrussia.com/
iguanac
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Posted: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 11:14 PM UTC

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Still a lot of AKM's appearing to be used as opposed to AK-74's?

Andy

If you speak of the second picture, they are from combined exercise with Serbian army, so those Russians are using M70AB2 Serbian made version,easily identifiable by 3 holes on forward wooden grip.
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Posted: Monday, May 15, 2017 - 06:41 PM UTC
Thanks everyone. Is the helmet a modern cut Fritz helmet, the traditional Russian one, or a modified version? I see one clearly fritz type but most of them seem a bit ambiguous.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 02:54 AM UTC

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Still a lot of AKM's appearing to be used as opposed to AK-74's?

Andy

If you speak of the second picture, they are from combined exercise with Serbian army, so those Russians are using M70AB2 Serbian made version,easily identifiable by 3 holes on forward wooden grip.


Yeah see that now and the grenade launcher sight on them.

Thanks,
Andy
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Posted: Friday, May 19, 2017 - 01:26 AM UTC

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Thanks everyone. Is the helmet a modern cut Fritz helmet, the traditional Russian one, or a modified version? I see one clearly fritz type but most of them seem a bit ambiguous.


The K-pot type is the norm for modern russian helmet. You might still see some individual soldiers in Motor Rifle and Naval Infantry units with a SSh-68 helmet, but that's rare. Most common helmet is 6B7-1M.

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Posted: Sunday, May 13, 2018 - 11:45 PM UTC

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Thanks everyone. Is the helmet a modern cut Fritz helmet, the traditional Russian one, or a modified version? I see one clearly fritz type but most of them seem a bit ambiguous.


The K-pot type is the norm for modern russian helmet. You might still see some individual soldiers in Motor Rifle and Naval Infantry units with a SSh-68 helmet, but that's rare. Most common helmet is 6B7-1M.



Most common russian helmet is 6B47 !
https://voensklad.com/russian-ratnik/6b47-helmet

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