RE: Scandinavian testers needed
Some notes on Soviet units with Arctic Warfare mission:
The Soviets fielded a number of Motorised Rifle Divisions adapted for Arctic Warfare ("Mot Rifle Div North") where the tank regiment had been downgraded to a tank Bn - IIRC during the 80s the most common tank type in Leningrad Milo was T-54/55. The artillery units were mostly equipped with towed D-30 type guns. The Motorised Rifle Regiments were equipped with MTLB (superior mobility compared to the BMP series, a BMP-1 could not negotiate 50cm of snow cover = very common during a normal winter). Usually the rifle regiments also inlcuded a tank company with PT-76 light tanks. The Division Recon Bn usually used PT-76 and BMP-1, or in some cases BMP-2 - even though they had limited mobility in winter.
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