The 70th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was a Soviet Ground Forces mechanized infantry brigade of the Soviet–Afghan War. During the war, it was based in Kandahar.
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The Soviet Ground Forces also known as the Soviet Army was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army.
70th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
…The 70th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was a Soviet Ground Forces mechanized infantry brigade of the Soviet–Afghan War. During the war, it was based in Kandahar. The brigade was formed on 1 March 1980 in Kandahar from…
US tanks and Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, October 1961
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A Russian soldier of the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division in Moscow, January 1992, a few weeks after the dissolution of the USSR. He is wearing the Soviet winter Afghanka uniform.
A U.S. assessment of the seven most important items of Soviet combat equipment in 1981