Editing Hind Assault Landing Company (section)

==In Real Life==
Apparently (based on stats and provided pictures), the Landing Company is meant to represent a company of Soviet Army infantry being airlifted. By SOVIET AIR FORCE HINDS. While helicopter regiments were attached to Divisions as needed especially for Guards Divisions or Shock Armies, Hinds have typically been organized under the Soviet Air Force or the Airborne Troops, a component of the Air Force like the US Marines to the Navy. Soviet frontline infantry were trained to comparatively poor standards to the west but the same cannot be said for specialist infantry like the Airborne, Naval Infantry and unsurprisingly, Spetsnaz. With their tactics discouraging independent action, bravery and obedience were far more important than rubbish like tactics and initiative.

Trained to a significantly higher standard, the VDV was expected to serve as the first combat troops to enter Europe via air assault or parachuting, depending on the regiment. As described in the book, they would hold out until relieved by the Red Army. Unlike the shock armies who could afford to throw companies of men against the defenders, the VDV would have to rely on the man next to them which encouraged tactics far more similar to NATO than PACT doctrine.

Similarly, the Polish and Czechs were famous for the superior training of their airborne forces: the bulk of the conscript force would be send into the motor-rifle divisions as undertrained cannon fodder, but the Czech Vysadkari and Poland’s Air Assault Division were typically composed of regulars and the best of the conscripts who (usually) volunteered for service in the airborne.

The East Germans did not maintain an extensive airborne force, focusing on conventional armoured warfare instead. They did maintain a battalion, later expanded to a regiment, of airborne/air assault troops in Luftsturmregiment 40 (40th Air Assault Regiment) but functioned as a special forces type unit rather than frontline troops jumping from planes. Similar to East Germany, the Czechs and Poles operated their own volunteer-only airborne units as the army's spearhead. What their Hind landing company represents is anyone’s guess: line infantry trained for operations in mechanized vehicles are NOT qualified for heliborne operations, and special forces are rarely rubbish enough to be totally indistinguishable from regular infantry.

Battlefront, PLEASE fix. As of Red Dawn - Still useless.

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