[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/50px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png[/IMG] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2tooIXKMOg]Razvedka Idyot - Recon troops, forward![/url] [hider=Chernomirdin] Rank: Colonel Name: Vsevolod Ignatovich Chernomirdin (ЧЕРНОМЫРДИН В.И.) Date/Place of birth: Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, February 8th 1975 Character history: Born to a Russian family in Odessa, he moved to Moscow when he was five because his father was restationed in the abhorrent machinery of the Soviet administration. At age 14, he entered a Suvorov academy, beginning his career as an army officer. Attending the Moscow Suvorov Academy he saw the dissolution of the USSR and the fall of Russia into degeneracy, drugs, and cowboy capitalism. His studies left no time for politics, and Vsevolod fitted Dostoevsky’s words in The Brothers Karamazov : “..a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship, and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world’s, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.” His military education sheltered him from the worst horrors of Yeltsin’s Russia but still lived unhealthily. The facilities were derelict, food poor, equipment constantly breaking and unserviceable, and the culture was toxic. It still beat sleeping in an empty apartment while contracting TBC and/or HIV, so Vsevolod remained inside and sucked up his pride until he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the VDV in early 1996. and fought in the later stages of the First Chechen War including the second battle of Grozny. He took Russia’s defeat heavily and this translated into him despising all things Islamist and Chechen. During the lull in the fighting his behaviour to the Caucasus peoples was distant, cold, hostile, and lacked any empathy whatsoever. Military courts acquitted him of two cases of sexual harassment and one case of theft, but that’s the Russian military courts. The late 90s were boring until the Chechens invaded Dagestan, and Russia went to war again. Taking part in the successful campaign to end Chechen independence, he won a bunch of medals adding to the one he received at Prishtina airport. With the bushfire in the Caucasus going on, he distinguished himself and was eventually earmarked for transfer to the VDV’s scouts, the Razvedka. As a member of the airborne scouts he did some secret stuff like assassinations and raids in the Caucasus, but most action he was involved in were exercises in Belarus and Kazakhstan. When war broke out in Ukraine, he was one of the first over the border – a welcome change from the usual nothing. Colonel Chernomirdin is a very stern individual. Compounded by his experience in the southern regions, he demands discipline at every turn from his men. He is a stern individual, brash, sometimes abrasive, short-spoken, and makes short and deliberate movements. Appearance: [url=http://i.imgur.com/r5F6NQn.jpg]Image[/url] (1.83) Gear: Russian digital flora uniform and a lightweight assault vest, his VDV Telnyashka showing underneath. Weapons and equipment: AN-94, MP-443, and an AKM bayonet for combat. He also carries three days worth of rations and ammo, three hand grenades, three signal smoke grenades, and a Laser Target Designator. Role: VDV Razvedka team leader. Miscellaneous: There's probably a photo of him with a beheaded Jihadi in Chechnya but that's something nobody can prove. [/hider] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/50px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png[/IMG] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_rL2aop7Y]Tri Tankista - Three Tankmen[/url] [hider=Ivanov] Rank: Senior Sergeant Name: Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov (ИВАНОВ С. В.) Date/Place of birth: Moscow, January 3rd 1997 Character history: Born in the middle of a cold winter in a back area of Moscow, Sergei had a crapsack childhood, dodging drugs and HIV while in a not-too-shabby school. In there, he knew that working his arse off was the only way he could ever better his existence. And so he did, scoring stellar grades at the cost of his social life. But all that work would turn out to be for nothing after his antics got him a bit of a scuffle. He was found making illicit love to his Russian teacher and the headmaster’s daughter, his classmate. It was hushed up, but Sergei’s last half-year of school leading up to his exams was full of hurdles, roadblocks, and a barely passing grade at the end. A desperate search for tertiary education began, but no such institution was willing to accept him. There were two options: unskilled labour or the army; Sergei chose the latter. His height brought him into the armoured forces, because not everyone can fit in a Russian tank. In order to get into tank academy, he lied about a few things but that was quickly forgotten, as physical fitness and motivation made him very successful there. After he finished training and was commissioned in mid-2017, he was transferred to the The 4th Armoured Division he trained with and quickly became a tank commander a few days before massive exercises began. After war broke out, the Kantemirovskaya divison was among the first units to move to the front, due to it being one of the Russian army’s ‘permanent readiness’ divisions. Sergei shares his tank with the driver, [url=http://i.imgur.com/lmMZa8r.jpg]Aydin Chinbat[/url] and the gunner, [url=http://i.imgur.com/fXnuWzA.jpg]Anastasia Ozerova[/url] Appearance: [url=http://imgur.com/LsUaOJq]Sergei[/url] (1.68) Gear: A belt with a canteen and magazine pouches. Weapons and equipment: An AKS-74U, a pair of hand grenades, binoculars, and a pack of ciggies. He’s snuck a bunch of extra rations into his tank. Role: Tank Commander on a T-14 Armata Miscellaneous: [/hider]