penetration corps contained as many as 1,500 gun tubes and rocket launchers each. Tank armies, which also emerged in 1943, included one or two tank corps and one mechanised corps, plus supporting units. These mechanised formations were capable of conducting operational exploitations of up to 500 kilometers.

Post-war period

The special-purpose brigades of the Supreme Command Reserve became the first missile units, in accordance with the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, dated May 13, 1946:

* 22nd Special

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