Editing Regiment (section)

===Motor Rifle Regiment===
The Motor Rifle Regiment was one of the basic tactical units within the [[Soviet Ground Forces]], totaling around 2,500 officers and other ranks. While normally operating as part of a [[:Category:Motor rifle divisions of the Soviet Union|Motor Rifle Division]] or [[Tank Division (Soviet Union)|Tank Division]], it was capable of short-term independent operations. By the late 1980s, it consisted of a regimental headquarters in command of three Motor Rifle Battalions, each numbering around five hundred personnel and equipped with either [[Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty|BMP]] [[infantry fighting vehicle]]s or [[BTR (vehicle)|BTR]] [[armoured personnel carrier]]s, and one Tank Battalion, typically consisting of thirty-one [[T-64]], [[T-72]] or [[T-80]] tanks, although older models were present in units outside the [[European theater]]. These were supported by a battalion of eighteen 122mm artillery pieces, either the self-propelled [[2S1 Gvozdika]] in BMP regiments or towed [[122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30)|D-30]] [[howitzer]]s in BTR regiments, though some BTR regiments also used the 2S1, with additional fire support from the organic mortar battery in each infantry battalion. Additional combat support came in the form of an air defence missile and artillery company with four [[SA-9]] or [[SA-13]]s and four [[ZSU-23-4]] or [[2S6 Tunguska]]s, an antitank missile battery with nine [[BRDM]]-mounted [[AT-3 Sagger]] or [[AT-5 Spandrel]] launchers, a reconnaissance company mounted on BMPs, BRDMs and motorbikes and an engineer company. Other non-combat formations included a signals company, chemical protection platoon, material support company, maintenance company, and regimental medical point.{{sfn|United States Army|1991|page=4-3}}