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Originally Posted by kalos72
Great link...that helps alot actually.
One thing that concerns me, not many units would still be able to use much in the way of long range comms so all the electronic surveillance and detection and such would be pretty wasted no? Especially against roaming marauders and such.
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Well, keep in mind a few things:
1) A divisional EW unit is oriented towards gathering information that concerns the division - probably not too far behind the lines, so not really that long-range. And with the overall decline in comms, those that still have some to use must be pretty important, and are probably worth monitoring. In addition, I would think that with the breakdown in Soviet C3I after the exchange, Soviet use of encryption and code might not be as common (sophisticated crypto gear breaks down, updated codebooks are impossible to distribute from Moscow) and among marauders nonexistent, leading to a relatively high payoff from continued monitoring.
2) The electronic surveillance, intercept and jamming assets, if they physically survived the 1997 campaign (did the Russians shell or fire "home on jam" missiles at jammers? Who knows!), are likely not to still be functioning in great numbers by 2000.
3) There is an ongoing need in 2000 for farmers, guards, infantrymen, laborers and so on, so the specialized MI troops will certainly be employed for something
