The Pentagon will spend 500 million dollars for training US soldiers to fight the underground, пишет The Times. Given the threat of confrontation with North Korea or Russia, Command of the US Army decided to reconsider the need for specific military operations and training equipment. The US eventually came to the conclusion, that effective action in the underground corridors and tunnels soldiers need to be able to work in complete darkness and in conditions, when normal communications equipment often does not work, with poor air quality and without protection against enemy fire.
Late last year, the US Army began to carry out a program to provide training and 26 of 31 its combat troops, so that they could fight in large underground passages systems, that exist under many densely populated cities.
Furthermore, already working in the US on changing military doctrine. According to the military, it must be taken into account, that conflicts are increasingly will be conducted in cities like Seoul and the capitals of the Baltic states. A manual on the underground war & quot was published in November, for immediate use & quot;.
More recently, ground mission entrusted only elite units, but the situation began to change after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where soldiers had to fight in urban areas and in tunnels. Adventure & quot; the Islamic State" (banned in the Russian group) We created a system of tunnels to protect cities, captured in Iraq and Syria, the author notes.
Now, the US focus is on North Korea. In preparation for the new manual states, that Korea is able to redeploy 30 thousand people per hour through a system of deep tunnels under the border with South Korea. Besides, suspected, that North Korea is not only underground nuclear site, but Air Force Base, built inside a mountain, пишет The Times.
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