Paladin Press Guerrilla Cccp Red Army The Inside Story Special Forces Spetsnaz.doc

Top of Form Оцените этот текст: Прогноз Bottom of Form Виктор Суворов. Спецназ (engl) Translated from the Russian by David Floyd First published in Great Britain 1987 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd ISBN 0-241-11961-8 OCR: 28 Dec 2001 by MadMax Origin: /Suvorov_book/ Viktor Suvorov. Spetsnaz. The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces To Natasha and Alexander Chapter 1. Spades and Men Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him. In three minutes he will have dug a little trench 15 centimetres deep, in which he can lie stretched out flat, so that bullets can whistle harmlessly over his head. The earth he has dug out forms a breastwork in front and at the side to act as an additional cover. If a tank drives over such a trench the soldier has a 50% chance that it will do him no harm. At any moment the soldier may be ordered to advance again and, shouting at the top of his voice, will rush ahead. If he is not ordered to advance, he digs in deeper and deeper. At first his trench can be used for firing in the lying position. Later it becomes a trench from which to fire in the kneeling position, and later still, when it is 110 centimetres deep, it can be used for firing in the standing position. The earth that has been dug out protects the soldier from bullets and fragments. He makes an embrasure in this breastwork into which he positions the barrel of his gun. In the absence of any further commands he continues to work on his trench. He camouflages it. He starts to dig a trench to connect with his comrades to the left of him. He always digs from right to left, and in a few hours the unit has a trench linking all the riflemens trenches together. The units trenches are linked with the trenches of other units. Dug-outs are bu