"Reforger 77 Carbon Edge" was conducted as a free-running corps-level FTX. It involved 51800 troops with 4000 tracked vehicles, 7500 wheeled vehicles, 500 helicopters and 90 combat aircraft. The aim of "Carbon Edge" was to test the capability of NATO to slow down, intercept and stop a major conventional attack of the Warsaw Pact in order to gain enough time to assemble sufficient forces for a counteroffensive and, by so doing, regain the initiative on the battlefield. This publication uses impressive and large-format action photos to illustrate the offensives and counteroffensives of the exercise. A special chapter is devoted to the famous "Tank Grave at Pless".
This publication shows the offensives and counter-offensives of the training troops in impressive and sometimes large-format manoeuvre photographs, sometimes in the most difficult terrain. A separate chapter is dedicated to the famous "Panzergrab bei Pleß".
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Böhm, Walter
Title
Reforger 77 Carbon Edge. Forward Defence at the Iron Curtai
Details
English and German text, paperback, 5 bw- and 108 colour photos, 5 graphics, large format. 64 pages.
