Declassified Polish Cold war-era map showing the expected nuclear strikes across Central Europe under one Warsaw Pact planning scenario for armed conflict with NATO forces.
by riksarkson
Declassified Polish Cold war-era map showing the expected nuclear strikes across Central Europe under one Warsaw Pact planning scenario for armed conflict with NATO forces.
by riksarkson
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Basiert. Müsste ich Montag nicht zur Arbeit.
Small mushroom clouds are tactical nuclear weapons (under 50 kilotonnes), large clouds are strategic weapons (over 500 kilotonnes). Also a couple neutron bombs are used.
The scenario for the war was NATO launching a nuclear strike on Polish and Czechoslovak cities in the Vistula river valley area in a first-strike scenario, after which a Soviet nuclear counter-strike would be launched against West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and North-East Italy followed by a large scale Warsaw Pact ground invasion towards the river Rhine.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine)
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BROT acronym refers to Operational-Tactical Missile Brigades but I don’t know what the letter A before BROT means. These were Rocket Artillery forces armed with 2K6 Luna and 9K52 Luna-M, later OTR-21 Tochka.
FBROT is refering to Front Operational-Tactical Missile Brigade, here’s an article (in polish): https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_Brygada_Rakiet_Operacyjno-Taktycznych ).
Map legend translation below
Left side:
Special storage for nuclear weapons
Nuclear Power Plants
Aviation and missile production plants
Ammunition, explosives and armament production plants
Armored equipment and military vehicle production plants
Construction and renovation (maintenance) plants for watercraft
Nuclear strike area
Military pipelines
Civilian pipelines
Fuel depots
Special weapon supply group
Right side:
External front
OPK system (Polish Air Defence Force – 4th branch of the army specialized in air defense of strategic industries and cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Air_Defence_Force )
OTK units (Territorial Defense Forces – consisted of mainly Internal Troops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Defense_Forces_(Poland) )
OC forces (Civil Defense)
Communication facilities
Industry plants
Energy facilites
Repeater station
Radio-electronic reconnaissance stations
Radio-electronic interference/jamming stations
Neutron weapon (ERW) strike zone
TSP (Toxic Industrial Agents) contamination zone
TSP (Toxic Industrial Agents) river contamination
Field pipelines
Stationary pipelines
Area contaminated with poisonous substances
Interesting whats left out and what things in the middle of nowhere get nuked that werent that relevant.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen bombardieren. Macht total Sinn.
Irgendwie verstehe ich die Einschläge beim doch recht bekannten “Fulda-Gap” nicht. Die strategisch wichtige und mit Kasernen vollgestopfte Stadt Koblenz bekommt nix ab – aber dafür wirft man eine Atombombe irgendwo in den Westerwald?
Gießen ergibt ja wieder Sinn, Bad Hersfeld auch.
Schweinfurt bombardieren aber Würzburg nicht.
Kek
Irgendwie ein komisch Gefühl sein eigenes 1000 Einwohner Kaff auf einer sowjetischen Atomschlagkarte zu sehen