Nuclear Arsenal Base Typical Structure
Each nuclear arsenal base typically consists of the following main services and units:
- Command (that includes the formation’s commander and his deputies, chief engineer, chief of staff, chief of political department with their staff, cadres, financial departments, and other administration).
- Engineering-Technical Service or ETS (Russian abbreviation “ITS”) – the most important service of the arsenal that actually handles nuclear weapons and deals with end-users. It is subdivided into several departments, bearing names such as “2nd department”, “3rd department”, “3rd A department”, “3rd B department”, and similar. Each department deals with specific kinds of nuclear munitions and with specific “customers.”
- A separate guards battalion which is similar to an ordinary infantry battalion, but much better trained and equipped.
- Automobile transport base.
- Rail-way transport base.
- Helicopters and related staff.
- Tanks and their maintenance base.
- Artillery pieces.
- Signal office centre and various communication units – stationary and mobile ones – all equipped with various automatic communication encrypting systems.
- Separate engineering-technical company (sappers).
- Cryptographic (“8th”) department.
- Military counter-intelligence department.
- Military prosecutor.
- Military hospital.
- Military fire-fighters command.
- School for children.
- Detachment of the “Voentorg” – an organization running various shops and supermarkets within the military and organizing needed supplies.
- Various services concerned with living quarters and other premises maintenance.
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