Russia Recreates the Berdsk Spetsnaz Brigade

Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor ^ | 5/30/2012 | Roger McDermott

[RC one]

very pretty general, but can they bugger each other?

[Tainan]

pingy dingy...GRU Spetznatzky troopski move...guess they all didn’t go to Tartus

[Jack Hammer]

Moved to Central Asia....

You mean, where all the Moslems live?

Just thinking out loud.

[af_vet_rr]

Moved to Central Asia....

You mean, where all the Moslems live?

Just thinking out loud.

That's a lot of loud thinking. A lot of Muslims who are tied up fighting with NATO would probably turn their attention to...well we'll just say Russian interests. And they don't like Putin after what he did in Chechnya.

[bruinbirdman]

"Moved to Central Asia....

You mean, where all the Moslems live? "

[who] would probably turn their attention to...

Good thinking:

"Moscow will try to maximize the potential security role of the CSTO ahead of the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014."

yitbos

[ASA Vet]

SOCOM Ping

[uglybiker]

very pretty general, but can they bugger each other?

The one in the back looks like he's eyeballing the middle ones backside....

[MichaelP]

Another step in Putin's goal of recreating the Soviet Empire...

Mike

[fso301]

I don’t understand why they like to wear those striped undershirts.

[kronos77]

The tradition of Russian/Soviet ground troops wearing a naval uniform comes from Soviet Navy sailors who fought on the ground while under siege during World War II. It is exemplified by the famed Soviet sniper Vassili Zaitsev. Zaitsev was a petty officer in the Soviet Pacific Fleet who volunteered for army duty, but, despite transfer, he refused to give up his Navy telnyashka because of the pride it engendered.

General Margelov, who was later to modernise the Soviet airborne forces, had previously served with a Naval Infantry unit in WWII, and procured telnyashkas for the VDV as a mark of their elite status.

All special operations units in USSR and Russia originated from Marines. And they still ware marines shirt to show that pride.

[kronos77]

Soviet 1936 silent propaganda film We Come from Kronshtadt started aesthetization of telnyaskha with the scene of Bolshevik sailor emerging from the sea in his torn undershirt after he survived execution by drowning. Telnyashka has become such evident symbol of masculinity in Soviet culture, that it is sported by dozens of popular non-military characters of the cinema and even children' cartoons, notably The Wolf in the Nu, pogodi and Matroskin the Cat in the Troe iz Prostokvashino. There is a popular saying that ironically presents telnyashkas as an attribute of "real men": "We are few in number, but we wear telnyashkas!" (Russian: "Нас мало, но мы в тельняшках!", Nas malo, no my v telnyashkakh!).

[Raven6]

"The one in the back looks like..."

I'd say he might be more concerned as to why everyone else around him has a blank firing device attached to the muzzle of his weapon and the guy in front of him doesn't. Maybe the guy without the blank firing device is just stupid and forgot to attach it, or maybe he going to throw a magazine of live ammo into the weapon and start working over those around him. You can't be too careful about those around you when you are dealing with an area that is hot with muzzies that would just love to infiltrate a unit and then do what he has to do to go see allah. (I intentionally left the "a" in lower case, as there is no god named allah and mohammad was a false profit.)

[ansel12]

Isn’t that just a dust cover, like a rubber?

[fso301]

Thanks for the explanation

[uglybiker]

Or he could just be starin’ at the other guy’s butt.

[Raven6]

Well, they kind of look that way... But the BFD's for AK-47's and AK-74's actually what amounts to a threaded cap with a small hole in it that helps contain enough of the pressure to cause the weapon to cycle. It threads onto the muzzle of the weapon. They are metal and are left in the natural color so that they are easily seen.

They thread onto the muzzle with a 14mm left hand thread...

[Raven6]

"Or he could just be starin’ at the other guy’s butt."

Yes, he could... I don't know what their DADT policy might be over there. :-)

[ansel12]

Thanks, I didn’t know theirs was so svelte, I was thinking of our old cage device.

I thought it must be one of these. http://ak-builder.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30005

[af_vet_rr]

The fact they are trying to get this stuff into place ahead of the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan does makes you wonder if the Russians know something. I would not be surprised to see Chechnya and a few other places heat up.