Once Emperor Alexander III called the two main allies of Russia: its army and navy.Today, he would add, and aircraft, which was not there, and we would have three kinds of troops.
Russian army protects our homeland against threats from potential enemies.Their organizational structure includes the types and kinds of troops.This control scheme is the most efficient, it is proved by practice.
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation formed three main types: Land Forces, Navy and Air Force.
Infantry - an ancient type of troops.Today, ground troops have the most modern weapons: high-precision artillery, tanks, motorized and missile units, air defense service.
Aviation also includes several genera.It is a strategic (long-distance) transport, intelligence and army.
Navy - he is fleet, the bulwark and the power of the Russian state.
man, ignorant in matters of strategy, everything is one: what kind of that kind.However, there is a difference between them, and substantial.
arm - is a component part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.Its distinguishing feature - the action in any, to use poetic language, poetry or, if simpler environment.On this basis, each armed with a particular branch of service equipment.An example is the naval aviation, which is organizing the fleet, and its planes are designed to support and protect their ships and combat alien.Frontal Aviation land army is also native troops.
In addition, within each species has its own rear services.They also work in her element, because the army and navy have time to get all kinds of allowances, fuel, accessories and more.Some ignorant people refer to the service supply and logistics, as some secondary structure, but it is not so.From its correct operation depends on the success of any military operation is no less than that of guns, missiles, tanks and aircraft.
And there are medical service, whose role is difficult to overestimate, and in times of peace, and, God forbid, in time of war.
As part of each species, there is also a kind of troops, special forces.There are the most skilled and courageous soldiers, ready to perform particularly difficult and risky task.
In addition, there are certain kinds of troops of the Russian Federation: RVSN (Strategic Rocket Forces), paratroopers and military and space defense.They are in direct subordination of the General Staff and the Supreme Commander, that is the President.
RVSN carry nuclear deterrence.Warheads are on the ships of the Russian Navy, including on missile submarines, also serve this purpose.
Airborne troops - the mobile arm.It is designed to respond rapidly to emerging threats to national security.
Military Space Defense carries out monitoring of the strategic facilities of the country - potential enemies, using satellites in orbit.
The Russian Army has a unique kind of troops - the railway.After the collapse of the USSR it was abolished, but in 2004 the newly restored, they are now subject to service the rear.
Signal Corps are special Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, their value is so important, it is appropriate to their submission to the General Staff.
