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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
You will note that this gives a 9-man rifle squad, but the BTR-70 has seats for 11 (two empty seats per vehicle), these additional seats are used for the platoon leader, assistant platoon leader and any attached SA-14 gunners from company assets. In addition there are no man-portable radios at the squad level, the BTR has a single medium-power R-123.
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I assume the driver and gunner only operate dismounted in the most unusual of circumstances (eg, vehicle disabled), so the squad is effectively 7 men.
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The MR Platoon consists of three rifle squads, and a platoon leader and a asst. platoon leader, both armed with PM.
This gives a typical rifle platoon, 1 officer and 28 enlisted men, armed with 7 PM, 19 AK-74, 3 RPK-74, 1 SVD, 3 RPG-16, 3 BTR-70, 3 R-123 vehicle radios and 1 R-126 man-portable radio.
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Is the SVD stowed on one of the BTRs to be issued by the platoon leader as he sees fit? You don't list a dedicated platoon sniper.