<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I guess organized as regiments?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> yes.<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>SO the panzerabwehr companies of the infantry regiments of the Grenz brigades were probably still 105mm RCL?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> I am not sure if they were organized in the G...

<t> First a short overview of the age classes in TO61:<br/> <br/> Auszug (Elite) between 20 and 32 - mostly in the Field Army (Feld Div, Mech Div, Geb Div).<br/> Landwehr between 33 and 42 - mostly in the border brigades.<br/> Landsturm between 43 and 50 - mostly in the Territorial troops.<br/> <br/...

<t> found something on the AA:<br/> <br/> as you said the AA bttys of the Inf Rgt were consolidated into the Mobile Leichte Flab Abteilung of the divisions with five batteries with 16 20mm AA guns each for a total of 80 AA guns. the infantry regiments of the Grenz Brigaden kept their AA bttys with 1...

<t> maybe a short one on doctrine during the cold war<br/> <br/> the main goal of the swiss armed forces was to credibly to be able to inflict an enemy so big losses and to the deny the main logistical axes (gotthard, simplon, ...) by holding or destroying them, so he would not consider entering swi...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Speaking of AA units, did the Army have Rapier units or were they all Airforce? I ask this as Switzerland bought only 60 fire units?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> All AA was Airforce, but they were used to cover the movement of the Mech Div in case of a counterattack. In addition t...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Okay I understand. I see something similar in the Grenzbrigade structure. So the Infantry regiments has these too.... I wonder if they just consolidated the Flak Batteries from Regiment into the Battalion at Division level... A couple of other armies did the same during this...

<t> This unit was a kind of a staff unit on regimental level - the companies operated independently<br/> <br/> Nachrichtenkompanie = recon coy, used for recon for the regiment. the batallions had a section for recon.<br/> Grenadierkompanie = one of the few elite units of the swiss army, had lots of ...

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How were the Territorial Zones organized?

no idea. probably very specific to the sector/zone they were supposed to work in.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>That would give the Feld Divisions 4bn x18 M109? Were the Feld Divisions Motorized?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> not sure if they reduced to 3bn. probably good guess. there were some 600 M-109 in the end which would give some 36 Bn.<br/> <br/> No the Feld Divisionen were sta...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Do you have the ID for the other Field Divisions? Were the Panzer Battalions also number seperatly in the Mech Divisions?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> No I don't have the numbers. All Batallions in the swiss army were numbered starting at 1. So Pz Bat 1 ..., Füs Bat 1 ..., A...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Swiss Army at 1990 had 1300 Schützenpanzer 63/73 (M113). How were these used? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> It's a bit more complex. There 1'573 M113 in all variants. <br/> <br/> 520 Schützenpanzer 63 Spz 63 (APC) ==> all were converted to SPz 63/73. (this would be an equiva...

<t> OK - seems to be a bit of a mix of pre-1980s TO&E e.g. the divisional recon batallion and post 1989 TO&E with the Mech Div 11. Some corrections for most of the time during the 1980s:<br/> <br/> The divisional recon batallions (AMX-13) were dissolved in 1979 and were substituted by the HQ...

<t> On divisional level you had the following units:<br/> <br/> HQ Bn with 2x HQ Coy (Basically infantry with some HMG and dog handlers to man 2x HQ), 1x recon coy (Jeeps & foot), 1x police coy (traffic control), 1x transport coy (lots of trucks).<br/> <br/> Engineer Bn (three coys i believe, on...

For the Mountain Bn I don't have a clue. But probably the were pretty similar to the standard Füsilier/Schützen Bn - no reason to keep them different. The only difference I remember was, that they had Train Horses in the HQ Coy.

<t> Yes you have a point on the ATGM. The Dragon was introduced as fourth company in the Füsilier/Schützen Batallion (only in the Füsilier/Schützen Bat of the Feld Armeekorps and the Gebirgs Infanterie Batallion in the Mountain Divisions) and the TOW replaced the recoilless 105 in 1991. Between 1985...

<t> from memory (maybe i didn't get everything right) the infantry regiments<br/> <br/> Infanterie Regiment (Infantry Regiment)<br/> <br/> 1x Infanterie Batallion<br/> ...1x Stabskompanie (no clue)<br/> ...1x Nachrichtenkompanie (Recon Coy)<br/> ...1x Grenadierkompanie (Assault Infantry 3x platoons,...

There a a few init.xxx (where xxx is a number) units in the soviet OOB. does anybody know what does units do?

joey's problems seems to be very similar to mine.

Having problems running on my 64bit Windows 10 machine. Already when starting up i keep getting an ".NET Framework unhandled exception" error: "Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 100, position 85". Any idea?