Soviet Afghanistan war

If possible, why the Soviet Union attacked the Afghanistan? And where was she going? To the Pakistan or to the Iran?

The soviets weren't "going" any where.

What the Soviets did in Afghanistan was very similar to what happened in Korea... Before the US got chucked out of Iran in 1979 it was infiltrating Afghanistan, which was a Soviet friendly country. When the Shah was overthrown and the CIA was thrown out of Iran they started moving into Afghanistan.. the Soviets went in to Afghanistan to stop the US creating another Turkey near the Soviet border.

There was never any consideration to invade Pakistan or Iran and it had nothing at all to do with trying to get warm water ports... they already had Cuba and Vietnam and if they asked possibly Indian ports if they were so desperate for such things.

the US claim the Soviets invaded Afghanistan so they could then invade Pakistan and get warm water ports was at best a delusion, and at worst a cynical attempt to recruit Pakistani support for opposing the Soviet presence in Afghanistan.

I saying this was better than Russia today.

Su-17 from 302th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment.Combat operation in Afghanistan. amateur videos . without sound

I have a professionally made British aviation video about Soviet aircraft that identifies an Su-17 as being a MiG-21 several times... if the wing root mounted cannon didn't make it obvious the swing wings certainly gave it away...

Nice vids BTW... my vote.

T-62M in Afghanistan :

GarryB wrote:I have a professionally made British aviation video about Soviet aircraft that identifies an Su-17 as being a MiG-21 several times... if the wing root mounted cannon didn't make it obvious the swing wings certainly gave it away...

Nice vids BTW... my vote.

I have seen a British aviation video about MiG aircraft, which identifies a Lavochkin La-15 as a MiG-15. That was a fortuitous error, as video clips of La-15 were rare at that time. That was the best part of the video actually.

Hehehe...so long before they were jury rigging rocket pods on light vehicles in Libya they did the same in Afghanistan...

Those pods look like 80mm pods so they would have quite a bit more punch than the 32 shot 57mm pods being used in Libya.

80mm rockets being cheap and easy to get near any Soviet airfield... and each one packing about 4kgs of HE punch... twice the warhead weight of an RPG-7 with 20 lined up for a volley... not very accurate but the target will notice... and an excellent anti ambush weapon too... along with the 14.5mm HMG.

THX Archangielski for this photo... I never saw this one before...

BMD in Afghanistan :

Cyberspec wrote:

In love with a ФАБ-250М62.

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Other field modifications :

George1 wrote:

can anyone translate what the senior officer tell to the soldiers??

He asked the soldier why do they look like that with open vests, without proper uniforms. He demanded his documents and mentioned that the soldier with the open armored vest was under arrest for 7 days for his inproper appearance of his uniform and that he had to report that to his Battalion commander, if he doesn't he will do it for him.

Then they drive to the vehicles that are at the rear of the column and heasks the seargant why his column is in such pathetic form and shape, why his soldiers have no orderly uniforms, why some of his soldiers have open vests. He asks him where he is and why his own vehicle in the column is so far away behind the rest of the vehicles and why the rest of the vehicles have stopped and were not following the other vehicles which are already towards its destination. So they kept tight with their soldiers even in 1988 for being undisciplined and not following rules,orders and proper ways.