Friday 30 September 2022

1/300 Russian Missile Troop

Classified as "Divisional Level" assets (certainly according to the Modern Spearhead OoB) for my Russian Cold War Motor Rifle Division (see below, a Frog-7 [conventional or nuclear armed] and four SA-6B Gainful): 


Heroics and Ross models.

4 comments:

Martin Rapier said...

Ooh yes, proper goodies. In my intermittent WW3 campaign set in 1981 I let the Russians use their Frogs in the opening attack, but conventional weapons only. Now the advance has stalled a bit they may get something more interesting to fire...

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

The fact that there are so many units that could technically fire a "nuke" is quite scary .. in the old orbats there was one per MR Div

tim said...

Yikes! I had no idea they were so prevalent! Can't help but shudder thinking about how quickly things would escalate after that first divisional commander that got panicky and fired off a tactical nuke!

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Tim: I think the capability to potentially use was widespread but the "clearance to use" and actual deployment of the warheads must(?) have been tighter (just to avoid a rogue general holding the state to ransom). No, it does not make you sleep any easier, because past a certain point .. centralised control disappears and as you say "panic" creeps in .. sobering!