Old Bolt stuff

[Aaron]

What about Unified Army Corps's? Soviet style corps composed of brigades instead of divisions? Its mentioned in Glantz' book about Soviet military operational art.

It seems one did belong to the Belorussian MD and to the Carpathian MD.

Did they even exist or?

Could be an interesting addition.

They did exist and i even have the composition and they wernt actual corps just oversized divisions(well this is what i call them, 4 Bdes and supporting regiments of ART and HEL) but the concept was abandoned in late to early 88-89, my info says NOV88 is when the idea was nixed.

Aaron

Could you publish this information? seems interesting after reading Red Army.

If you have aditional info of the OOB or TOE, they are welcome. See link

Looks interesting Dutch, never heard of this corps.

Me and Dutch have touched on this before and what he has posted in his thread is what your looking for, as far as their use it would have been as an exploitation force to of course exploit a breakthrough and each Bde would act independently hence the designation brigade, even though these units were regular regiments in peacetime a regiment was a unit that acted as a whole, they moved and fought together where a brigade is a bunch of independent parts that would split apart to go multiple areas, in this case each BRIGADE would be independent and supported by the Corps assets of the ART,HELO regiment and various other Bn sized units. I at one time thought they might build actual Bdes out of the regiments with reserves because a armor bde in the Soviet army had a different structure but i have found no proof of this. Dutch has been digging into this more than i have because after i found out they wernt around when my scenario took place (JUN89) i dug no further but hes been looking around so id listen to what ever he has come up with.

Aaron