Re obat 70 Chechnya

[Marcello]

"the level of preparedness most Russian forces showed in the first Chechnya war makes it hard to rule out that armored troops would have been rushed into battle with "standard" loadout, whatever this is."

Some sources I read a few years ago implied that this was indeed the case. But as I said it was few years ago and I may not remember it correctly.

"n the matter of gun-launched missiles, bear in mind that they could be of some help for taking out point targets like snipers, hidden AT teams, AA guns, MG nests...
I don't know if Russian troops have integrated that in their doctrine, since the only mention of a possible anti-personnel use of these weapons is in the OPFOR's WEG..."

I suppose that in theory you might fire one of them at a sniper but why? First of all they are horribly expensive to be fired at such sort of targets. Then even if you had some of them available, let's say a batch of "Kobra" nearing the expire date, setting them up is such a pain in the *** that would be hard to undertake with early 90's russian crews. Not worth it.