“Sounds like a tactical error, not training the crew to do field repair.”
From what I’ve read of the Soviet military it was one of their traditions that it was usually just officers who knew how to conduct field repairs. For some reason the lower ranks were deliberately kept ignorant of technical information.
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“deliberately kept ignorant of technical information”
Interesting. Perhaps it was if captured, they could not divulge technical/functional information.