Regiment and company, whichever is greater. How many people are in a company, battalion, platoon, etc.

This will be my first blog post. It’s not a full-fledged article in terms of the number of words and information, but it’s a very important note, which can be read in one breath and has almost more benefits than many of my articles. So, what is a squad, platoon, company and other concepts known to us from books and films? And how many people do they contain?

What is a platoon, company, battalion, etc.

• Branch
• Platoon
• Battalion
• Brigade
• Division
• Frame
• Army
• Front (district)

These are all tactical units in the branches and types of troops. I have arranged them in order from least number of people to most to make it easier for you to remember them. During my service, I most often met with everyone up to the regiment.

From the brigade and above (in number of people) during the 11 months of service, we didn’t even say. Perhaps this is due to the fact that I do not serve in a military unit, but in an educational institution.

How many people do they include?

Department. Numbers from 5 to 10 people. The squad is commanded by the squad leader. A squad leader is a sergeant's position, so commode (short for squad leader) is often a junior sergeant or sergeant.

Platoon. A platoon includes from 3 to 6 sections, that is, it can reach from 15 to 60 people. The platoon commander is in charge of the platoon. This is already an officer position. It is occupied by a minimum of a lieutenant and a maximum of a captain.

Company. A company includes from 3 to 6 platoons, that is, it can consist of from 45 to 360 people. The company is commanded by the company commander. This is a major position. In fact, the commander is a senior lieutenant or captain (in the army, a company commander is affectionately and abbreviated as a company commander).

Battalion. This is either 3 or 4 companies + headquarters and individual specialists (gunsmith, signalman, snipers, etc.), a mortar platoon (not always), sometimes air defense and tank destroyers (hereinafter referred to as PTB). The battalion includes from 145 to 500 people. The commander of the battalion (abbreviated as battalion commander) commands.

This is the position of lieutenant colonel. But in our country, both captains and majors command, who in the future can become lieutenant colonels, provided they retain this position.

Regiment. From 3 to 6 battalions, that is, from 500 to 2500+ people + headquarters + regimental artillery + air defense + fire-fighting tanks. The regiment is commanded by a colonel. But maybe also a lieutenant colonel.

Brigade. A brigade is several battalions, sometimes 2 or even 3 regiments. The brigade usually has from 1,000 to 4,000 people. It is commanded by a colonel. The abbreviated title for the position of brigade commander is brigade commander.

Division. These are several regiments, including artillery and, possibly, tank + rear service + sometimes aviation. Commanded by a colonel or major general. The number of divisions varies. From 4,500 to 22,000 people.

Frame. These are several divisions. That is, in the region of 100,000 people. The corps is commanded by a major general.

Army. From two to ten divisions of different types of troops + rear units + repair shops and so on. The number can be very different. On average from 200,000 to 1,000,000 people and above. The army is commanded by a major general or lieutenant general.

Front. IN Peaceful time- military district. Exact numbers It’s already difficult to name here. They vary by region, military doctrine, political situation and things like that.

The front is already a self-sufficient structure with reserves, warehouses, training units, military schools, and so on. The front commander commands the front. This is a lieutenant general or army general.

The composition of the front depends on the assigned tasks and the situation. Typically the front includes:

• control;
• missile army (one - two);
• army (five - six);
• tank army (one - two);
• air army (one - two);
• air defense army;
• separate formations and units of various types of troops and special troops front-line subordination;
• formations, units and establishments of operational rear services.

The front can be strengthened by formations and units of other branches of the Armed Forces and the reserve of the Supreme High Command.

What other similar tactical terms exist?

Subdivision. This word refers to all military formations that are part of the unit. Squad, platoon, company, battalion - they are all united by one word “unit”. The word comes from the concept of division, to divide. That is, the part is divided into divisions.

Part. This is the main unit of the Armed Forces. The term “unit” most often means regiment and brigade. External signs parts are: the presence of its own office work, a military economy, a bank account, a postal and telegraph address, its own official seal, the commander’s right to give written orders, an open (44 training tank division) and closed (military unit 08728) combined arms numbers. That is, the part has sufficient autonomy.

IMPORTANT! Please note that the terms military unit and Military Unit do not mean exactly the same thing. The term “military unit” is used as a general designation, without specifics. If we are talking about a specific regiment, brigade, etc., then the term “military unit” is used. Usually its number is also mentioned: “military unit 74292” (but you cannot use “military unit 74292”) or, for short, military unit 74292.

Compound. As a standard, only a division fits this term. The word “connection” itself means to connect parts. The division headquarters has the status of a unit. Other units (regiments) are subordinate to this unit (headquarters). All together there is a division. However, in some cases, a brigade may also have the status of a connection. This happens if the brigade includes separate battalions and companies, each of which has the status of a unit in itself.

An association. This term combines corps, army, army group and front (district). The headquarters of the association is also a part to which various formations and units are subordinated.

Bottom line

There are no other specific and grouping concepts in the military hierarchy. In any case, in Ground Forces Oh. In this article we did not touch upon the hierarchy of military formations of the aviation and navy. However, the attentive reader can now imagine the naval and aviation hierarchy quite simply and with minor errors.

Now it will be easier for us to dialogue, friends! After all, every day we are getting closer to speaking the same language. You are learning more and more military terms and meanings, and I am getting closer and closer to civilian life!))

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Each state has its own military organization- armed forces. The number and tasks performed are determined by government system. The armed forces of each state have their own hierarchy.

Let's take a company as an example. Company includes several platoons. In addition, it may also include separate sections that are not related to platoons. In addition to three platoons, a motorized rifle company includes two more sections: machine gun and anti-tank. When conducting combat operations, the company is obliged to carry out assigned tactical tasks. Moreover, it is the smallest formation that independently performs such tasks. The company is led by a captain. As a rule, a company includes 3-4 platoons, but if necessary, it can be more.

How many people are in the company?

How many people are in the regiment?

A regiment is the main tactical formation. The regiment commander is usually a colonel. The regiment includes a whole range of military branches. Depending on which troops there are more in it, the regiment itself receives this name. Example - tank regiment. Its composition: 2-3 tank battalions, 1 motorized rifle, 1 artillery. In addition to the first aid post and the anti-tank battery, it also has several companies - repair, material support, reconnaissance, etc. The amount of how many people are in the regiment varies depending on need - from 900 to 2000.

How many people are in the division?

The division is the main tactical and operational formation. A division receives its name in the same way as a regiment, depending on which types of troops predominate in it, and this is not as significant as in a regiment. The division commander is a major general. Divisions are divided into airborne, motorized rifle, artillery, tank, aviation and missile divisions. The amount of how many people are in the division varies and ranges from 12 to 24 thousand.

To understand what makes up a regiment, it is necessary to understand the standard structure of military formations. The primary unit of the army structure is a squad, the number of which can reach 10-16 soldiers. Typically three make up a platoon. A motorized rifle company has three or four platoons, as well as a machine gun crew and a squad, problem solving for protection against enemy tanks.

The company is designed to solve most tactical tasks in combat conditions; its number reaches 150 people.

Several companies are organizationally part of the battalion. Behind this structural unit This is exactly what the regiment follows. It is an autonomous and key military formation designed to solve tactical problems, as well as take part in operations and strategic maneuvers. The regiment is usually headed by an officer of fairly high rank - a lieutenant colonel or colonel.

The composition of the regiment and its weapons are not homogeneous. Here you can see the divisions related to the most different types. The name of the regiment usually includes the branch of troops that predominates in number. It should be taken into account that the structure and total strength of the regiment is largely determined by the characteristics of the tasks being solved. In military operations, the number of units can be increased.

Regiment as an independent combat unit

A motorized rifle regiment includes two or three motorized rifle battalions, a tank, artillery and anti-aircraft missile battalions, and a medical unit. Additionally, a regiment can have several auxiliary companies, for example, reconnaissance, sapper, repair, and so on. The composition of a regiment in armies is determined by the regulations and wartime needs. As a rule, the strength of a regiment is from 900 to 1500 people, and sometimes more.

What distinguishes the regiment from other units is that it is an organizationally independent combat, economic and administrative unit. Any regiment includes a department called headquarters.

Above a regiment in the military hierarchy is a division commanded by a general. Depending on the goals and objectives solved by this formation, the composition of the division, as well as its name, depends. For example, a division can be missile, tank, airborne, or aviation. The strength of a division is determined by the number of regiments and other auxiliary units included in it.

IN different times and in different countries the size and purpose of platoons varied greatly. The concept of platoons, as an organizational combat unit, which has survived to this day, was not formed immediately.

The concept of a platoon in history.

Historically, it was not just an organizational unit, but had a specific purpose - firing at opponents. Thus, during the time of the Swedish king Gustav II, platoons were considered to be three rifle teams, which were divided into two types: those that fire and those that reload weapons.

In Russia, the concept of a platoon first arose in imperial times - at the end of 1915. They initially appeared in grenadier and infantry units, and later spread to other types. They consisted of one officer, four non-commissioned officers and 48 ordinary soldiers who were in their command.

Platoons in the USSR and the Russian Federation.

The glorious military traditions begun in the Soviet army are preserved to this day. This primarily concerns the number of platoons depending on , which is still considered optimal and has not changed for more than eighty years. Number of platoons of the unit special purpose GRU, which are considered one of the most elite troops Russian, has from 9 to 18 people, depending on the number of special groups included in its composition.

A platoon is formed based on the number of people needed to operate the tank and maintain it during trips and during downtime. So, for example, for the T-72 tank, a platoon is formed, which consists of 9 people.

More complex structure Artillery troops have platoon strength formations. It all depends on what type of weapon a given platoon uses and, as a result, how many units of such equipment should be per unit. In practice, it turns out that the size of an artillery platoon can range from 10-12 people in mortar platoons, to 20-25 people in cannon platoons.

Platoons in the armies of the world.

Since the formation of the NATO military bloc, it has so happened that most armies in the world have adopted the practice used by the army of the United States of America. Currently the platoon American army consists of 42 people, including a platoon commander, a platoon spotter and a platoon commander.

African countries most often have platoon numbers based on the practices of the countries that colonized them and now patronize them as an apology for all the troubles their ancestors brought.

Armed Forces of the state- government-supplied defensive and militant organizations used in the interests of the state. In some countries, paramilitary organizations are included in the structure of the Armed Forces.

In a number of countries, especially in the West, the military is linked to the government through a civilian agency. It may be called the Ministry of Defense, the Department of Defense, the Military Department, or otherwise.

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Types of aircraft

Aircraft are usually divided into different kinds; usually they are the army (Ground Forces), aviation ( Air Force) and military fleet (Navy / naval forces). May also be part of the Armed Forces Coast security(although in many countries it is part of the police force or is a civilian agency). The French structure, copied by many countries, includes three traditional branches, and, as a fourth, the Gendarmerie.

The term consolidated forces is often used, meaning military units made up of two or more branches of the Armed Forces.

Organizational hierarchy of the Armed Forces

The minimum unit of the aircraft is a unit. The unit usually operates as a single unit, and is homogeneous in composition (for example, only infantry, only cavalry, etc.).

In the Soviet and Russian armies, the main unit is considered to be a platoon, company or battalion. These are the types of formations that are elements of the next level of the hierarchy - the military unit.

Larger units of the Russian Armed Forces are called, depending on their size, units, formations and associations (English formations). The most common (but not the only) type military units Soviet army were regiments, and in the Russian army - brigades. Examples of formations are separate brigades, divisions, wings, etc. Associations are represented in the Soviet and Russian armies by corps and armies.

Hierarchy of modern armies

Steps in this ladder can be skipped: for example, in NATO forces there is usually a battalion-brigade organization (in Russia such an organization is also used, it is an alternative to the battalion-regiment-division division). At the same time, in the Soviet army there were so-called separate brigades, the main difference of which was that, unlike modern brigades, they included separate military units (for example, two motorized rifle regiments).

An army, an army group, a region and a theater of military operations are the largest formations, which can differ greatly from each other in size and composition. Support forces are usually added at the division level ( field artillery, medical service, rear service, etc.), which may not exist at the level of regiments (English regiments) and battalions. In the USA, a regiment with support units is called a regimental combat team, in the UK and other countries - a combat group.

IN individual countries Traditional names may be used, creating confusion. Thus, British and Canadian tank battalions are divided into squadrons (companies, English companies) and troops, English. troops (corresponding to platoons, English platoons), while in the American cavalry a squadron corresponds not to a company, but to a battalion, and is divided into troops ( troops, resp. companies) and platoons.

The fronts of the Red Army during World War II corresponded, according to this classification, to army groups.

Add-ons

1. The names of the listed units may vary depending on the type of troops. For example:
   1. In the Soviet army (and, accordingly, in the Russian army), a squad may be called a crew. Functionally corresponds to the crew of one combat vehicle;
   2. IN missile forces and artillery, air defense troops, a squad can be called a crew. Functionally corresponds to a crew that serves one gun or combat vehicle;
   3. In missile and artillery and air defense forces, a company is called a battery, and a battalion is called a division;
   4. In cavalry, a company was called a squadron, and a battalion was called a division (but often in cavalry regiments this unit was excluded and the regiment consisted of only several squadrons). Currently, in the armies of Anglo-Saxon countries (Britain, USA) there are so-called. armored cavalry troops, in which this name is retained;
   5. In Russian Cossack troops there are other names - regiments of six hundred or four hundred, hundreds, fifty, squads (tens), separate artillery units. The Cossack troops also have their own system of military ranks;
2. The indicated number refers to infantry (motorized infantry, motorized rifle) troops. In other branches of the military, the number of units with the same names may be significantly smaller. For example, an infantry regiment consists of 3 - 4 thousand people, an artillery regiment - of 1 thousand.
3. Any military unit the army has not one, but two states - peacetime and wartime. The wartime workforce adds new positions in existing units, new units, and new units. Missing military personnel are called up for general mobilization in war time. In the Soviet (and Russian) army there are:
   1. Deployed wartime staff;
   2. Reduced staff;
   3. Cadre units (in which the staff consists only of officers at the level of platoon commanders, company commanders or battalion commanders and above).

In the modern Russian army, about 85% of military units have a reduced staff, the remaining 15% are so-called. "parts constant readiness", which are expanded according to full staff. In peacetime Armed forces in Russia they are divided into military districts, each of which is headed by the commander of the district troops with the rank of army general. In wartime, fronts are deployed on the basis of military districts;

1. In all modern armies a “ternary” (sometimes “quaternary”) composition was adopted. This means that an infantry regiment consists of three infantry battalions (“three-battalion composition”). In addition to them, it includes other units - for example, a tank battalion, artillery and anti-aircraft divisions, repair, reconnaissance companies, commandant platoon, etc. In turn, each infantry battalion of the regiment consists of three infantry companies and other units - for example, a mortar battery, a communications platoon.
2. The hierarchy, therefore, may not be direct; for example, a mortar battery in an infantry regiment is not part of any battalion (division). Accordingly, separate battalions can be allocated, each of which is independent military unit, or even individual companies. Also, each regiment can be part of a division, or (at a higher level) directly subordinate to the command of the corps (“corps subordination regiment”), or, at an even higher level, the regiment can subordinate directly to the command of a military district (“district subordination regiment”);
3. In an infantry regiment, the main units - infantry battalions - report directly to the regimental commander. All auxiliary units are subordinate to his deputies. The same system is repeated at all levels. For example, for an artillery regiment of district subordination, the chief will not be the commander of the district troops, but the chief of the district artillery. The communications platoon of an infantry battalion is subordinate not to the battalion commander, but to his first deputy - the chief of staff.
4. Brigades are a separate unit. In terms of their position, brigades stand between a regiment (the regiment commander is a colonel) and a division (the division commander is a major general). In most armies of the world there is an intermediate rank between the ranks of colonel and major general « Brigadier General» , corresponding to the brigade commander (and during the Second World War the Waffen-SS had the rank of “Oberführer”). In Russia, traditionally there is no such title. In the modern Russian army, the Soviet division military district-corps-division-regiment-battalion, as a rule, is replaced by the abbreviated military district - brigade - battalion. operational-tactical [i.e. 2-7]. - M.: Military publishing house of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1976-1980.
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IN company Russian army Maybe enter from 18 before 360 Human. Important role plays a branch of the military, for example:

• IN tank company quantity soldier rarely exceeds 35 Human;
• IN motorized rifle companies Maybe be 60-110 soldier;
• IN nautical infantrye – approximately 130 Human;
• IN air— airborne troops – before 80 soldier And T. d.

A company consists of several platoons, which, in turn, consist of sections. The average department may contain from 3 before 15 Human, in platoon – from 9 before 45 Human. More often Total V company included 2-6 platoons.

The company is the smallest formation that has tactical importance. Those. on the battlefield, the company is capable of performing small tactical tasks. In cavalry, companies are called squadrons, in artillery - batteries, in border troops - outposts, in aviation - aviation units. Most often, companies are part of battalions and regiments, but there are also separate formations that are not tied to larger structures.

The company is controlled by a commander, often called company commander by soldiers. This person must have a major position, i.e. holds the rank of senior lieutenant or captain.

As a rule, the data presented relate not only to Russian, but also to foreign armies. For example, motorized infantry companies USA have number 100-120 Human, such or companies V Germany – 120-130 Human.

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