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Originally Posted by c/Commander Russia usually wins through sheer numbers. |
Somebody else wins while being outnumbered? In conventional warfare, of course?
Btw, the article contains some inaccuracies:
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As we walk, observer Colonel Serkin questions a young Russian soldier about his use of an RPG. The weapon is a cheaply constructed steel and bakelite plastic tube that fires a 40mm shell. It has a maximum range of 500m, an effective range of 300m, and can punch a hole through two centimetres of armour-plated steel.
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40mm shell is shrapnel shell. HEAT shell is 85mm overcaliber shell. And it certainly burns out much more than `2 centimetres` of armour-plated steel (about 30cm with aged grenade PG-7V, ~50cm with more modern PG-7VL, and ~60cm with newest tandem-action PG-7VR one).
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"It's the best automatic in the world," says Kirill Manakov, 26, a First Lieutenant with the 138th Guards at Operation Snowflake, smiling as he is asked his opinion of the Kalashnikov AK-47.
"You can take it apart in 14 seconds and reassemble it in 17. It can be cleared in a second and it works everywhere – water, sand, dirt," he says.
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Russian army does not use AK-47 any more for quite long time ago, current standard weapon is AK-74M...