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Whico Soviet Vehicles Were Used In Afghanista

long_tom

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Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 11:11 PM UTC
Not the latest and greatest obviously.

Tojo72

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Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 11:24 PM UTC
BTR-70 + BTR-80

MLD

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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 01:08 AM UTC
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Not the latest and greatest obviously.
Big question..
BMD 1, Asu-85 in the inital stages of the invasion.
Early on, BMP 1 ,Btr 70, Brdm 2, T62, Zsu 23/4, some Scuds... and lots more
Later, BMP 2, BTR 80 and more modernized versions of the T62
Which vehicle were you thinking of modeling in Afghanistan??

jasegreene

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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 02:27 AM UTC
At the beginning of the invasion in 1979 there was BMD-1,BMD-2,SA-4(these were withdrawn in 1980).During the rest of the war T-62,T-55(mostly being used by the Soviet backed Afghan military),MT-LB,BMP-1,BMP-2,BMR-1,BMR-2,GAZ-66,URAL-375,ZIL-131,KAMAZ-4320,MAZ-500,BM-21,BM-14,BM-22,M-30,M-1942 76mm field guns.There was also old T-34/85 being used by government forces and even Type 63 multiple rocket launchers seen being used by rebel forces.
DerGeist

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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 06:50 AM UTC
Don't forget 2S1, 2S3, 2S4, 2S5, 2S7, TOS-1(testing). If it wasn't a T-64, T-72 or T-80 chances there was one in Afghanistan.


GulfWarrior


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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 07:16 AM UTC
Probably some ZSU 23-4s too. They make pretty decent anti-personnel weapons.
DerGeist

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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 08:41 AM UTC
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Probably some ZSU 23-4s too. They make pretty decent anti-personnel weapons.
Mentioned in the 3rd post. There were many there, often had radar equipment removed for extra ammo storage. There was a whole host of other AA equipment there too.

long_tom

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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 08:37 PM UTC
I'm trying less to depict a particular vehicle so much as when the Russians were realizing, "Hey, I thought we were supposed to be winning this war!"

Frenchy

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Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 09:48 PM UTC
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I'm trying less to depict a particular vehicle so much as when the Russians were realizing, "Hey, I thought we were supposed to be winning this war!"

H.P.

Frenchy

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Posted: Saturday, November 19, 2016 - 02:03 AM UTC


H.P.
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