[Angelus Errare]

The IMU and the Chechens are both basically better trained than the armies of most Third World dictatorships and the Chechens are motivated enough to inflict a signifigant amount of damage on the Russian army. The IMU has repeatedly pulverized the Uzbek army (most of which are former Soviet soldiers who returned home after the USSR crumbled), though with the death of most its leadership in Operation Anaconda the threat has decreased somewhat.

Most of the equipment is basically what the Afghan mujahideen had access to during the 1980s: small arms, some artillery, mortars, antiquated armor, that sort of thing. In combat terms, most terrorist organizations are fairly rag-tag groups, which is why they resort to assymetrical warfare to even the playing field as it were.

[Jacob Kell]

Do you have a list of the specific names, origins and models of weaponry used? Like "East German MpiKM", for example? I'm curious about the kinds of weaponry used, like makes of small arms (pistols, submachine guns, rifles), machine guns, rocket launchers, etc.