Russian OPORD

[gunterlund21]

Does the Russian Army use an equivalent of the US Operation Order or OP ORD. Does anyone have info on where I could find one. Thanks for the assistance

[Ripcord]

Please explain for us former Navy guys what you mean when you say US op order.... this is a reference to tactics?

[BIGNEWY]

Do you mean Orbat ( Order of battle for UK forces )

[Ripcord]

In terms of ORBAT there is not a lot that is online and CURRENT for Russian forces. I've searched quite a bit and not found much that appears to be current.

 

EDIT: I know many question the accuracy and perhaps rightfully so, but I thought wikipedia was at least useful and more or less up to date.

Edited August 1, 2012 by Ripcord

[AlphaOneSix]

He's referring to the 5-paragraph operations order. It's basically a battle plan.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_order

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_paragraph_order

[Ripcord]

Ah yes, I see. I'd not seen this or heard of it before -- thanks for sharing, learned something today.

[gunterlund21]

Alpha you hit it on the head. Looking for the way the russian army would do a mission briefing. do they have something similar to the US operations order where the details of the mission are spelled out.

[Sabre-TLA]

Here is a reference that may help:

 

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm100-2-1.pdf

 

See the section for Combat Order on page 3-10.