WWII
Russian Ind. Armored Car Brigade
1939-42

Far East

List R15

by Mark Bevis

1. Teeth

    Armoured Car Battalion
      Bttn HQ: 2x Ba-6
      3 Companies@
        CHQ: 1-2x Ba-6
        3 platoons@ 4x Ba-6

    Light Armoured Car Battalion

      Bttn HQ: 2x Ba-20
      3 Companies@
        CHQ: 2x Ba-20
        3 platoons@ 3x Ba-20

    Motor Rifle Battalion

      Bttn HQ: 1 rifle sqd, 1 truck
      3 Companies@
        CHQ: 1 rifle sqd, 1 truck
        3 platoons@ 3 rifle sqds, 2 LMG, 3 trucks
        1 platoon: 2x MMG, 2 LMG teams, 3x 50mm, 3 trucks

      1 Support Company:
        CHQ: 1 rifle sqd, 1 truck
        1 platoon: 4 or 6x 45mm M37 A/T guns, truck tows
        3 platoons@ 4 MMG, 2 trucks
        1 battery: 6x 82mm mortars, 6 trucks, radio truck

2. Brigade Support

    Armoured Car Brigade HQ: 2x Ba-6, 4x Ba-20

3. Notes

    a) Radios are in Bttn HQs and above, possibly in CHQs, vehicles so equipped have frame aerials and must be pointed out if requested. Ba-20 frame aerials are around hull, not turret.
    b) Infantry have no A/T grenades.
    c) The organisation is provisional. It is known that the Brigade has about 80x Ba-6 and 38x Ba-20, giving an assumed 2 Armoured Car Battalions and 1 Light Armoured Car battalion, with probably a Motor Rifle Battalion.
    d) Three such brigades served in the Far East, and may have survived until 1945.


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