NEWLY IDENTIFIED MOTORIZED RIFLE DIVISON SOVETSKIY, USSR (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: September 7, 1982
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NEWLY IDENTIFIED MOTORIZED RIFLE DIVISION
SOVETSKIY, USSR
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: A NEWLY FORMED MOTORIZED RIFLE
DIVISION (MRD) WAS IDENTIFIED AT SOVETSKIY ARMY BARRACKS,
ODESSA MILITARY DISTRICT (MD), THIS IS THE
FOURTH NEWLY FORMED MRD TO BE IDENTIFIED IN THE WESTERN
SOVIET UNION
25X1
2. (SWN) REMARKS:( (THREE MOTORIZED RIFLE
25X1
REGIMENTS WITHOUT THEIR ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS, EACH
CONTAINING A TANK BATTALION (T-55 EQUIPPED) AND EACH WITH
ITS OWN ARTILLERY BATTALION (100MM AT GUN EQUIPPED); A TANK
REGIMENT EQUIPPED WITH T-55 'TANKS AND AUGMENTED WITH AN
ARTILLERY BATTALION (AT GUN EQUIPPED); AN ARTILLERY
REGIMENT (MINUS ONE BATTALION) EQUIPPED WITH A MIX OF
HOWITZERS/AT GUNS, AND ONE BATTALION OF BM-24 MULTIPLE
ROCKET LAUNCHERS; A CHEMICAL DEFENSE BATTALION; AND AN
ENGINEER BATTALION WERE PRESENT.
(SWN) THE NEWLY IDENTIFIED MRD WAS NOT PRESENT ON THE
PREVIOUS INTERPRETABLE COVERAGE
25X1
HAVE COME FROM SIMFEROPO
L ARMY BKS ANGARA AL 6
25X1
W14 I i HOUSED
A MOBILIZATION MRD THRO
UGH AT
25X1
MAJOR
ELEMENT ILIZ
ATION MRD
25X1
PROBABLY HAD DEPARTED SI
MFEROPOL
THE
SIMILARITY 2
5X1
OF THE EQUIPMENT SEEN AT
SOVETSKIY ARMY BARRACKS
AND
PREVIOUSLY AT SIMFEROPOL AL 6 SUGGESTS THAT THE UNITS MAY
BE THE SAME.
3. (SWN)
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