>>5270649As Tabuk tries to keep himself calm under the pressure, he gets a knock at the door. There is a beeping sound, the specific tone of someone swiping their card and using the finger-print scanner. The trailer has a thick door, hidden air vents, air conditioner units, and air-filters for all hidden vents. Depending on how the trailer is setup, he can escape out both the top and bottom. The room has tools to blow out the a man-sized portion of a ceiling underneath the trailer, if need be.
The handful of men that is stationed in the room are already up, with their metal-composite helmets on and face-shields down. Two of the men have Saiga-12s with drum magazines and the other two have AK-74Ms with drum magazines. The over-loaded lasers that violate safety standards shine around the door, ready to allow the men to shoot from the hip if need be.
Inside steps a man standard urban camouflage combat dress, after a couple seconds Tabak realizes this man is a Kapitan.
<span class="mu-i">"I don't think we met. I am your second in command in HQ 1. I am Magomadov. My call sign is Daa, I know most of the leadership and contract troops in the battalion.</span>
The two officers shake hands warmly and firmly, but HQ 1 does not have a place to sit. Tabak thinks to himself and he realizes that Daa is likely a Chechen, and based on how his face and uniform is arranged, he is a highly politically loyal and religious man. Based on age, being in his 40s, the man might've been present for the civil-wars. It has been decades since there was any fighting between the two peoples, since Pretashinko publicly declared that the Chechens had warned him of multiple bombing attempts, some by Chechens and some by MVD personally.
<span class="mu-i">"I have been looking over my own laptop and PDA, and I've been comparing the new numbers and figures to the charts I keep with me.
I think we are almost completely up to Soviet Era strength, matching High Readiness charts specifically. They weren't able to get us more of those expensive Kornet systems, but we have 3 Metis-M1 ATGM teams with their equipment. We finally have the eight mortars we should have, all three LIB Companies have forward spotters in their HQ Platoons, and I've met the mortar coordinator now in HQ1. We have Igla-S systems and crews, nine of them actually..... Oh and we have our Recon Platoon finally....."</span>
Tabak thinks about this. For the most part this is to be expected, they are a "high readiness" unit now. What he finds strange is that not only was the unit able to get Kornets, but now it has access to Metis-M1s. The Metis system was designed to be issued at the Platoon level, which would mean he would have 3 of them in each LIB company. Despite how the system was designed, it was never really issued in large numbers.
