During the last three months, Russian forces in Ukraine have probably largely stopped deploying as Battalion Tactical Teams (BTGs) over the issues of their idea.
The UK Ministry of Protection mentioned this in its newest intelligence replace printed on Twitter on Tuesday, Ukrinform stories.
Based on the replace, the BTG idea has performed a significant half in Russian navy doctrine for the final ten years, and noticed battalions built-in with a full vary of supporting sub-units, together with armor, reconnaissance and (in a departure from ordinary Western follow) artillery.
A number of intrinsic weaknesses of the BTG idea have been uncovered within the excessive depth, large-scale fight of the Ukraine conflict to this point. BTGs’ comparatively small allocation of fight infantry has typically proved inadequate.
“Decentralized distribution of artillery has not allowed Russia to totally leverage its benefit in numbers of weapons; and few BTG commanders have been empowered to flexibly exploit alternatives in the best way the BTG mannequin was designed to advertise,” the ministry mentioned.
