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Soviet Engineers - 6/7/2016 10:35:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Anyone know the difference between a Soviet Separate Sapper Battalion and a Soviet Separate Engineer Battalion?

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RE: Soviet Engineers - 6/7/2016 11:09:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		My wild ass guess is one is combat engineer and the other is construction engineer.

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RE: Soviet Engineers - 6/7/2016 11:42:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's not what I am seeing in trying to figure this out. I see both performing construction tasks. It seems like the Sapper units are more defensive/mining oriented but the Engineers maybe more technical to include demolitions. I just can't find the magical explanation on why these two units are named differently.

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ORIGINAL: rmonical

My wild ass guess is one is combat engineer and the other is construction engineer.



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RE: Soviet Engineers - 6/8/2016 7:43:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		May be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper_army (and more detailed ru version).
They may have used the general sapper term for both types but in 42 they split them into more specialized combat and contruction engineers.

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RE: Soviet Engineers - 6/8/2016 8:42:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		There was basically no difference. Sappers could mine own territory during defensive ops and clear mines during offensive. Both of them played only auxiliary role during assaults, while assault sapper-eng bns (appeared in 1943) had their own striking capabilities.





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RE: Soviet Engineers - 6/8/2016 12:18:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		That is what I am seeing as well. I just can't get over the fact that the Soviets had two distinct and different names for units that performed the same functions.

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ORIGINAL: Helpless

There was basically no difference. Sappers could mine own territory during defensive ops and clear mines during offensive. Both of them played only auxiliary role during assaults, while assault sapper-eng bns (appeared in 1943) had their own striking capabilities.







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