Russian Ground Force Structure Explained
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What do you think about Russia having 63 yr old retired pilots & using tanks that are 60 yrs old?
0:10-Covert Cabal...Now number 1 target in Russia and Belarus!
You sounded like Chef John at 2.33 😄
Good video as usual.
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Great work! I bet that was fun at times but tedious and boring at others. Kudos on sticking with the project. I'd bet you know more about the Russian military's geographic disposition than many of the world's nations at this point.
'literally spent 100s of hours mapping...' - a man after my own heart!
Ikr, huge respects for the time he put into it
Hes better than some of the assholes here in my unit who’s job it is to figure out where enemy positions are.
thats dedication to his channel
Great Guy
A Heart of Iron?
Russia is the largest country on earth so im not surprised you cant map it all. it covers 11 time zones. so dont worry keep up your work its great stuff
Imagine wearing 11 different watches, nevermind, don't do that. ⏱👀
@@krisfrederick5001 hahaha that would be tough
I read somewhere that the entire surface of the earth gets mapped once every seven hours. Yep, we have that many satellites...
@@nobodyknows3180 wow that's a lot
11 time zones? does that mean russia spans half of earth hozirontally?
Good Job compiling this map. I know how hard of a task it is, so it is appreciated.
3:46 - this specialization could explain poor combinated arms (with air force) in Ukraine. And losing officers become even worse due to losing specialized experience of that officer, making replacement harder
Combinated? You making up words now?
@@jumpingoutofairplanesmentality don't be typical internet 14 year old correcting grammar
I think the reality is that russias army is a lot more defensively geared than the US. sure to a small nation on its borders in what they consider "their backyard" it might not seem like it, but its not designed for far away power projection or invading nato. Im swiss and our military similarly is not just mostly but entirely defensive. and quite a bit reminds me of how we do things. logistics work quite a bit differently when on your own soil and russia seems to mostly rely on rails and strategic storages. the less integrated but specialized command structures also work better in a less dynamic environment. many of their most advanced systems also seem geared toward defensive cost for cost attrition victories (anti air and ship missiles that arent of much use in ukraine beause frankly they have neither). I mean picture the Russian army equally dug in as Ukraine, with counter artillery radars, pre sighted artillery firing positions.communication lines (directional beam or physical) in such conditions they would function a lot more efficiently and realistically I see almost no chance of territory they hold being retaken once they really established control
@@catadoxas they are just poorly trained and led and all their equipment was stolen. Doesn’t matter if they were organized like western army, same would have resulted.
@@coffeecat9854 yup, idiots have no idea phones autocorrect erroneously, maybe distracted texting, maybe like here conflation of words, combined, combination = combinated.. I say mixed words on occasion...
OR ENGLISH ISN'T THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE...
But no courtesy, no common sense, just attention seekers needing to one up anyone they can
this channel is wildly underrated
I like thia channel because it's propaganda free zone.
you do alot more work than main stream media
Wonderful, thorough exhaustive work. Bravo! I suspect that the CIA has, already, offered you a senior position.
We are working on it
Right now he and some other people are voluntary working on mapping and aiding the Ukrainian army, what CIA does is something different.
@@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323 The CIA is everywhere and does anything that it wants. Yes they collect military intelligence too. I am lost in St. Louis.
The CIA is right now giving intelligence on ground and is aiding by military aiding Ukrainian troops holding out in Russian occupied territory. Mapping the Russian forces has already been done and I suspect every country does it even allies, what makes covert cabal different is that it is posted on RUclips, so that public can see what happens, if the CIA was ever to post this nukes would be flying.
1:43 it wasn't the invasion that left the Red Army unprepared. It was Stalin's purges that did so. In his paranoia, he's executed of exiled practically every single one of USSR's competent generals and officers, instilled paranoia and suspicion into the soldiers and army's civilian support staff.
RKKA was THE largest army in the world by the time Germany invaded. They had the most tanks, the most modern tanks (aside from electronics, which had to be sourced from Germany), most planes (which got bombed on the day of the invasion because they were literally next to the border) they had great defensive positions, they had lots of manpower and lots of very well-trained shock troops and field officers, lots of reserves to mobilize... but the idiocy and fear of Stalin that the replacement commanders suffered from have caused them to waste it all in stupid ideologically-driven counterattacks. Mekhlis, for instance, has famously refused to let the competent general prepare defensive positions, claiming that it would compromise morale! Stalin had people executed for reporting the imminent invasion to him.
To stabilize the front, Stalin had to pull generals from death row he's sent them to.
That moron has done more harm to Soviet defense than anybody he's had murdered.
Либерда привет !
Well, main reason why stalin reduced soviet defence chances was that he was planning to attack europe, therefore dismantled defense instalations and moved all army to the border. Another reason why russian airforce was so innefective agains germans was that russian pilots never trained to defend. Only to attack. This also proves that soviet union was planning to attack, not to defend itself.
@@Botseries yeah, that. He planned to attack Europe? Come on man, the whole difference between Trotsky and Stalin is lost if you misrepresent their foreign policy like that.
If they wanted to attack, why didn't they have radios?
Yo covert I love ur vids man, I’ve been watching for about a year now and the amount of research and dedication you put into each video are absolutely insane. Keep doing what ur doing and I hope to see ur channel grow In the future.
I’d like to know exactly what the the US is sending the Ukraine and is planning to send and how it affects the war in the east. My parents are afghan, and I can see small similarities on how the javelins , laws, and stingers capabilities have destroyed Russian airborne forces and tanks all across Ukraine.
I too am curious to know but such information can wait until the Ukrainian people win.
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Russian intel scratching heads on how Western RUclipsrs create insanely detailed videos about their military infrastructure.
Few things make me happier than watching Russia getting smacked in Ukraine after years of hearing how amazing they are by RUclipsrs and the media.
Not sure if they are being smacked... Maybe at the beginning, but not now.
Yeah same when I saw Afghanistan
Dude WTF?! In what reality are you living ? Russia Is beating the shit out of ukranian army this Is why nato countries send everyrhinf they can plus Money to keep the ukranian fighting . Ukraine did 4 mobilization waves against 0 for Russia . Turno off your TV.
Russia is winning slowly, but the Ukrainians are making them work for it. Hell, Russia could just give up because they're losing too many men for what they want to achieve. Even if Ukraine does eventually lose, they proved one thing to the world. That the Russia is not the juggernaut that they wanted you to believe. Seems that the only "success" they had from the past when the Red Army was a thing was mass wave attacks and sheer numbers. That's not a thing anymore.
@@papabetadine724 That's true Russia is not juggernaut - nor USA. It may look like that USA is more superior just because they use " scorched earth" tactics which Russia is trying to avoid in this war... Or so I hope.
G'day from Australia. Tell us about Pine Gap - US territory in the centre of Australia.
The absolut main problem of the russian military is, they have no NCO's (non commissioned officers) which acts as a experienced interface between the normal soldiers and the officers.
Germany/Prussia had these ranks, and that is one reason why the german military was so successful in the last 150 years.
Sounds kinda dumb that soldiers need an interface to talk to the officers. Thats a problem right there. Your soldiers are too dumb to talk. Your army is too rigid. Maybe NCOs are need for your army. And maybe in another army, everyone is an NCO.
@@TheBooban Anyone who is a leader can be considered an NCO, philosophly speaking. NCOs exist to empower individual Soldiers to lead less experienced Soldiers. They also free up commissioned officers to fulfill their duties, command units and planning, not individual Soldier discipline and training. The US Army puts a lot of emphasis on its NCO corps, without it, the US Army would not function the way it does. Read the US Army NCO Creed to get a better idea of what its about.
Without NCOs there is no leadership. Officers are the only informed members so you lose an officer the mission is a bust. US Army, the NCO can do the mission still, and the soldiers can continue if the NCOs are lost. Look at the Iraqi Russian trained army. During PG1 the prisoners said the officers fled the day before the invasion so everyone was clueless as what to do. Now, listen to captured Russians. They were clueless. Training exercises. It goes back to the Communist party days. Officers were usually party members and part of the in crowd, troops were not.
You westerners have this egotistical mindset of thinking that if other people are not doing it the exact way you guys would do it then the other people must be doing it wrong, because somehow you guys have managed to convince yourselves that you are more intelligent than others, that other people don't have the ability to calculate costs and effect, advantages and disadvantages and then make their own independent decisions based on those calculations and based on what they're trying to achieve or accomplish, you guys think everyone is trying to achieve the exact same thing that you guys are trying to achieve so they should be constructing their armies exactly how you guy would construct yours. Unfortunately this is one of the things that lead to underestimating the enemy and eventually brings the empire to its inevitable death🤷🏿♂️
@@godhallelujahgaming7947 I'm all for people doing things differently. NCOs however are what separates a Professional Army, from a Conscript Army.
mmmmm, I dont see the channel on Discord...
I love looking at maps like this and seeing US or Russian bases in some random obscure locations around the globe. And what units are stationed there. Thank you and Project Owl for all the hard work looking through all this.
Excellent piece of Open Source Intelligence.
I to love spending hours on google maps searching for militairy bases. Great video!
Google really ticked off Russia when they unmasked ALL Russian military installations. Before, when you went to look into the interior of Russia using satellite view in Google Maps, certain areas were blurred out. Not any more!
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What a time to be alive
The idea that you think Russia has the manpower left to just form another Combined Arms Army for the Northern District without stripping them away from other existing units elsewhere is, uh...humorously outdated.
I’m happy I’m not the only one who goes onto Russian website and Russian social media to see what their thinking
That arctic base and the triangular building with the 3 domes looks intriguing. It looks like an airport terminal.
Soviet conscripts aren’t the same as the current Russian ones. Soviets had a couple year long term in the actual military. And then went into the reserves. They were much better trained as a result.
But then there was no contract army. Today in Russia, conscription is a process of teaching Russian citizens the general military rules and basic skills of the art of the army, so that in the event of an invasion of the territory of Russia, this reserve has minimal skills. Russia is striving for a contract army and is rapidly increasing the number of contractors.
@Nikolay Morgan What? How does it reduce the number of conscripts? All men serve if they are not prohibited by this state of health.
Russia is not going to remove the conscription service, because it has its advantages
@@VHSKacceta but they did have a contract soldiers in the army. NCOs and other more technical jobs were contractual.
@@Rokaize Sergeants are also conscripts in military service. Officers like the lieutenant and above are already employed on a contract basis.
In Russia, the service of conscripts in some special forces has been severely restricted. For example, the navy, having given this unit exclusively to the contract army.
@@VHSKacceta That’s just not true for the Soviet army. They had professional NCOs. Not many, but it was still a thing. And warrant officers as well which are somewhat of a bridge between officer and enlisted.
I’m not talking about the Russian army
You Said the average russian soldier stays in his field for most of his military career.
But how long is the average russian Military career? Because If its only 4 years it wouldnt be that important.
Also as a former sniper i cant imagine staying in the same field for all my career years.
200th Motor rifle brigade took a lot of losses earlier in the war
I was expecting more commentary on how the structures work, not just "these are what those are formed from"... the battalion recon groups are a very interesting topic, the Russians use offensive recon, probing defenses and light duty operations to test reactions, which the chain of command can then use to pick preferred attack points
I bet a US intel guy will check you list
Do you know what I find sad, It is sad that Russia has beautiful forests, lots of land to explore and a lot of interesting geography.
What saddens me is that now we know more about Russia than the interesting city of New York and Chicago. Russia has interesting buildings and facilities.
I wish that these time changes and we start a deviation against a third world war. I will always side with justice and fairness and freedom for Ukraine but this is just going downhill. We need to stop this madness and war itself.
It will end everything good we have up to this date.
What ?
It took you decades and a major conflict to pay attention to Russia and take an interest in this country yourself. All your life you have looked at Russia through the prism of Hollywood and stereotypes. Keep looking at us like this. This is the end. Nothing will be the same as before, only escalation and deterioration of relations with the West and the United States will continue, today you are not a potential opponent for us, but a direct opponent and enemy. Thanks to all this situation, the West has only strengthened unity in Russia and the consciousness of the right path for Russia. If earlier Russians believed in friendship with the West, today this belief is destroyed. We don't understand each other at all, we are as different as possible. You are on one side of the hemisphere, and we are on the other. Now it's a reality.
@@amacca2085 I was asking the same when such dumb war started. But here we are again, getting used to violence, people losing their land and lots of immigrants starting from zero.
Yeah, What?
Maps the whole Russian ground forces 'this video is sponsored by ridge wallet' lol
You should work in pentagon
You just know some guy in the US intelligence some years ago, did exactly this but with Satellite pictures from Military satellites. Mapping and noting all bases and camps.
There are probably dozens or more of US intelligence folks doing this today, and on an ongoing basis… particularly now.
@@truthsmiles those poor guys spending hours looking at maps.
@@zinedinezethro9157 Don’t worry they’re well paid :)
8:05 thats the Kwajalein Atoll if anyone was wondering :-)
Everyone will die and their soul will burn in hell forever except 3 people of us
One day even wars will be open source
As seen in Ukraine their system doesn’t work against anti soviet doctrine from the 80s lol
Stop watch CNN bbc fake news
3:26 kinda reminiscent of the time I was there, it's ДВОКУ: Дальневосточное высшее общевойсковое командное училище
Excellent work keep it up!
Great content, do you have anything at all on the 150th MRD / 224th Anti Tank Battalion "any links at all" but Mariupol 2022 would be absolutely awesome. Massive fan from UK
do you have a link to a map with the bases pinned or something along those lines by chance?
I fucking love maps dude. I think its awesome you spent 100 hours on that project.
Where is the online map?
I posted it on the Project Owl discord server. Under the "Covert Cabal" channel. Link to join it is in the description (I should have mentioned that).
I've been thinking of putting it on github, and having people be able to send their contributions/update it. Just haven't had the time recently.
@@CovertCabal I'm not seeing it anywhere on Project Owl...did something change?
@@hankisadog Same, seems to be missing from the server
Great job researching!
4:54 made me cringe hard.
Do you have your KMLs available publicly? I would pay to have those. Or links to your compiled maps?
Nevermind.. found it on your Discord channel. Awesome content. Thanks for sharing all your hard work. I know it's not military, but all the US nuclear related super high security locations are interesting to look at as well. Pantex for one.. 6 layers of fences, and who knows how many other layers of unseen security. I used to enjoy path mapping air base and facility boundaries.
Nice work. Extra effort! 🤘😁🤘
Yeah, their command and control sucks! Their lack of autonomy takes away the initiative! That's why their suffering crushing defeats in Ukraine!
Thank you for not incorporating the cringe ass jokes people are making about Russia rn. They give me aneurysms every time.
Nice, 0 propaganda video.
Got to love your dedication towards OSINT
👍
There were supposedly 170 Russian BTGs before the war and initially Russia committed (so I read at the time) about 112 and then 120 of them. Now we're reading media saying that Russia has committed basically its entirely regular army - leaving Rosvguardia to self-defence. I'm a little vague about how many BTGs have actually been sent into Ukraine over time and how many remain (at least on paper, ignoring losses). There's also talk about Russia being able to form 70 more BTGs. The manpower element of this is quite plausible - say 30-40 thousand. But equipping them? Russia is already exhuming T62s and sending them into Ukraine. Maybe its trying to create BTGs that are more heavy infantry - and light on tanks? Looks more and more like Russia has reverted to WWII tactics and these additional forces will be used for "storming" tactics. (Can you say, cannon fodder?).
Anyhow I'd love to know what the situation actually is. How many BTGs went into Ukraine. How many are theoretically there. How many are actually there (after losses) and how many is Russia going to scrape together in coming months - and what their composition will be like.
@Indigo Rodent That's a good question. Apparently a lot of them are being rushed through a 30 day refresher.
The BTG concept is kind of a myth of western strategists stemming from their ad hoc formations in earlier conflicts. It's like saying the German army of WW2 was based entirely around Kampfgruppen. The Russians themselves don't actually base their doctrine around the construct. Instead they're organized around brigades and in some cases they still have divisional structures. What we saw earlier in the mad dash to Kiev wasn't BTG's but detached armored battalions doing reconnaissance in force. They lacked infantry, artillery and pretty much everything else. Their task was to find and engage enemy armor. Followed on by the rest of the brigade or division elements assisting in breaking through the line. A tactic primarily meant to fight NATO armor during the cold war. To their credit the Ukrainian general staff knew that this was the Soviet modus operandi as they too were part of the soviet officer cadre. The Ukrainians pulled back their armor to the reserve and allowed the Russian tanks deep into their territory, waiting until they ran low on fuel and supplies. They then proceeded to harass their supply columns. Followed on by striking the now immobile armor with artillery. And in terms of Russian successes it seems like most of their victories have come from infantry heavy formations. Kherson was seized by VDV and Marines. Popasna was taken by Wagner with the help of VDV and Marines. Of course there are exceptions such as the battle of Irpin where the VDV failed to make a breakthrough. The Russian army is very tank heavy as it's a leftover of the cold war and the need for a titanic clash of armor on the European plain. The T-62's are likely for rearguard defense formations. They're also moving a ton of T-72's and T-80's from storage. But I don't see them using these as anything more than direct fire artillery on account of the ATGM threat. Russia's saving grace in this conflict may likely be its heavy reliance on artillery to make up for weaknesses in its Air Force.
Not entirely true. Russia committed 120 BTGs per US statement. Russia had 2 weeks ago (per US state dept) 105 BTGs in Ukraine and several others in Belgorod “resupplying”. Russia never exceeded the 120 BTGs nor have they deployed any other BTGs other than the ones that were part of the “war games” with Belarus prewar (which was 110-120 BTGs).
www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3033374/senior-defense-official-holds-a-background-briefing/
They did however deploy some more forces (Infantry, special forces) that were not part of any BTGs (Chechen special forces, about 5-10k).
Needles to say, severe exaggeration about causalities and/or the deployments to Ukraine.
How funny it is to read all this clownish analytics of Western sofa specialists. Especially about the 30-day retraining KEKW
@@robertalaverdov8147 Very interesting thanks. Though I'm none the wiser about the question that really matters. What does Russia actually have left? Particularly in terms of infantry.
An adult starting a sentence w the word "literally". Smh, covid had so much potential.
Amazing work. Thank you dude
Level of expertise? Yea haven't seen it in the last 100 days. More like incompetent.
Deter NATO ? Is that a joke ? What kind of a mindset can make you form such sentence ?
Russian ground forces. Are you kidding me ? There is nothing left 😁
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Bro with this kinda research you should be sponsored by the CIA not the wallet people
Those free holidays are real. I've spoken to East Europeans who confirm this. Also some (I don't know how many) had an apartment in the city and their own house in the country. The holidays were for everyone.
And it was illegal not to have a job. If you were walking around during working hours you could be questioned.
Yeah. Not having a job was called "too-nye-yad-stvo".
Basically freeloading or more literally "useless eating".
youve gotta be on some kind of list at the Kremlin by this point, dude. xD
The Russian formations do an excellent job of running into Ukrainian ambushes.
What % of Russian arms or munitions cannot be produced again because of sanctions
Nobody but nobody seriously emulates anything russian
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has many years of life and let his enemies die.
Wow! The effort and time you put into creating this one video. Very impressive. Respect!!!
Covert, you would be a solid MI officer
Russia will never be able to replace all these equipment losses
where is the link to Status 6 youtube channel
Did the discord get yoinked?
One of my favorite channels. -Wags
You should work for the government lol
Tas Longe meu caro, muito longe.... chegar as forças reais da Russia e so o exercito, 172 brigadas têm só o distrito ocidental militar, dos 3 ramos...... Algumas destacadas na SMO e do Distrito Militar Sul outras quantas......
I never knew Russia was so weak before Ukraine war.
Discord is for groomers.
Go Russia! Down with NATO and the west
Bro just work for the cia
This project reminds me of a remark by Amy Zegart about the value of open source intelligence and diligent "nerds".
Oryx 6/4/22 shows 75 Russian BTGs lost, which equals 44% of the 170 active BTGs before the war. 1/3rd of the Russian losses are captures.
You oryx fanboys really have no critical thinking skills do you
No. Russia invaded with 120 BTGs. Never crossed over more than 120. Russia has (as of 2 weeks ago per US state dept statement), 105 BTGs in Ukraine at the moment (probably little less now) and several BTGs “resupplying” in Belgorod.
www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3033374/senior-defense-official-holds-a-background-briefing/
(US statement)
I think you’re confusing total Russian active fighting force with deployed forces. Total BTGs (active) are 170 but only 120 deployed which is about 72-104K troops. There’s also DNR and LPR forces but those aren’t Russian forces exactly.
@@zykom1 So the percentage of Russian casualites is even greater?
@@georgethompson1460 What? no… Russia has lost (made inoperable) 10-15 BTGs which is about 8-12k troops.
I can see you mapped Russian forces but you never explained why it matters.
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Can anyone give ne a hint why the army units are numbered the way they are? I have such a hard time remembering them... Why not give names like UA's Kraken?
Ukraine, are you watching? Slava
Have you considered adding those bases to OpenStreetMap?
I wonder if hovercraft would help Ukraine?
maybe it's just me but seeing numbers stenciled onto tanks in freaking Arial font doesn't exactly infer a good military budget
what did i just watch?
Let's go USA !
Let's go USA
Lets go USA
Did you consider or search the OSM database for these? Or contribute these locations to the database?
Can you get this kind of breakdown on the chinese army
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Why
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Russia just ran an exercise in the Pacific Ocean. Can you fill us in?
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Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
3:32.... look who's got the camera in the orange shirt ;)