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объект 925
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11.09.2020 00:25:34
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Re: Почему британцы...
>легкую, немоторизованную пехоту? Недостаток подходящих десантных кораблей?
>Что можно прочесть, как у них была организована МП?
>Alexej
Logistics in the Falklands War
Behind the British Victory
Kenneth L. Privratsk
Major Ewen Southby-Tailyour had commanded the platoon of Marines in the Falklands in the past. He was a landing craft specialist and yachtsman who had charted the coastlines of the main islands in the archipelago while posted there. According to associates, he looked at beaches with landing craft approaches in the back of his mind.
Southby-Tailyour rushed to Hamoaze House with his arms full of material and had soon set up maps and displays of the Falklands. He then started the first of many briefings for the Task Force and others over coming weeks.
In the Falklands there were no roads to speak of. The country consisted mostly of peat
bogs, making vehicle travel all but impossible, while massive runs of rock made overland travel by foot slow, probably noisy, and treacherous in places.
Based on such initial knowledge of the Falkland Islands, planners decided that it was not worthwhile to deploy many of the vehicles in the Brigade, only those wheeled vehicles that carried essential equipment like radios or defence systems. Wheeled vehicles simply would not be able to travel across the anticipated boggy terrain of the
Falklands. They would have to compete for space on landing craft to be landed and relocated. Although 3 Commando Brigade would normally deploy with over a thousand vehicles, the Brigade agreed on taking only fifty-four prime movers and nine motorcycles. Eventually, after insistence by Lieutenant Colonel Hellberg, Baxter agreed to add ten fuel-podded four-ton vehicles and nine Eager Beaver forklifts. To make up for wheeled vehicles, the Brigade decided to deploy seventy-five Volvo BV202 tracked vehicles, anticipating that they would be able to traverse bogs easily.