Russian Army

The Russian Army, officially the Russian Ground Forces (Russian: Сухопутные войска Российской Федерации, Suchopútniye voyska Rosseeyskoy Federácii) are the land forces of the Russian Federation. Active since 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Ground Forces were formed from various parts of the Soviet Army. From 1992 onward, the Russian Ground Forces were withdrawn from Soviet bases in foreign regions to focus on "near abroad" affairs. They use sophisticated military tactics and perform with conventional warfare.

Battlefield: Bad Company
The Russian Army fights the 222nd Army Battalion in Battlefield: Bad Company in a fictional war between Russia and the United States. It is one of the three playable multiplayer factions.

Attackers

 * Harvest Day
 * Over and Out

Defenders

 * End of the Line
 * Ascension
 * Valley Run
 * Deconstruction

Conquest

 * Harvest Day
 * End of the Line
 * Ascension
 * Acta Non Verba
 * Crossing Over
 * Par for the Course

Assault

 * AEK971
 * GP-30
 * 5 HG-2s
 * LIFE-2

Demolition

 * S20K
 * RPG7
 * 5 HG-2s
 * ATM-00

Recon

 * SV98
 * MP443
 * 3 MTN-55s
 * LZ-537

Specialist

 * AKS74u
 * TRCR-357
 * 5 HG-2s
 * 3 DTN-4

Support

 * PKM
 * MDK-132
 * PWR-200
 * MRTR-5

Light Vehicles

 * GAZ-3937 Vodnik

Tanks

 * T-90
 * BMD-3

Helicopters

 * Mi-28 Havoc
 * Mi-24 Hind

Naval Vessels

 * Patrol Boat Light

Emplacements

 * KORD
 * 9M133 Kornet
 * ZU-23-2

Battlefield Online
In Battlefield Online, the Russian Army is pitted against the USMC.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2


The Russian Army appears as an available faction in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Singleplayer
The Russian Army fight against the 222nd Army Battalion, the United States Marine Corps and the Special Activities Division. They are under the command of Arkady Kirilenko and are allied with the Latin American Militia. Their voices are provided by Oleg Mirochnikov (as Assault), Slav Shumov (as Engineer), Kirill Radcig (as Medic), and Nikolay Lazarev (as Recon).

Weapons Used

 * AN-94 with GP-30
 * F2000 with GL1
 * AKS-74u
 * SCAR-L
 * T194
 * Type 88 LMG
 * Type 88 Sniper
 * MG3
 * MP-443
 * M2 Carl Gustav

Vehicles Used

 * GAZ-3937 Vodnik
 * M939 Truck
 * BMD-3
 * Mi-28 Havoc
 * Mi-24 Hind
 * 9M133 Kornet

Engagements against the 222nd

 * Cold War

Engagements against the Special Activities Division

 * Crack the Sky
 * Snowblind
 * Heavy Metal
 * High-Value Target
 * Sangre Del Toro
 * Force Multiplier
 * Airborne

Engagements against the USMC

 * High-Value Target

Multiplayer
The Russian Ground Forces are one of the two playable factions and fight against the United States Army. It is also the opposing faction in Onslaught mode. When they are on the offensive in Rush maps, they almost always attack with their airborne elements.

Engagements against the US Army

 * Arica Harbor
 * Atacama Desert
 * Laguna Alta
 * Laguna Presa
 * Nelson Bay
 * Panama Canal
 * Port Valdez
 * Valparaiso
 * White Pass

Light Vehicles

 * GAZ-3937 Vodnik
 * Cobra
 * Quad Bike
 * CAV

Tanks

 * T-90
 * BMD-3
 * BMD-3 Bakhcha AA

Helicopters

 * Mi-28 Havoc
 * Mi-24 Hind
 * UAV-1

Naval Vessels

 * Patrol Boat Light
 * Personal Watercraft

Emplacements

 * KORD
 * 9M133 Kornet
 * ZU-23-2
 * QLZ-87

Battlefield Play4Free
In Battlefield Play4Free, the Russian Army is seen fighting the United States Marine Corps in parts of China, Myanmar, and the Middle East.

Battlefield 3
The Russian Army is a playable faction featured in the multiplayer of Battlefield 3, being pitted against the United States Marine Corps.

Light Vehicles

 * VDV Buggy
 * GAZ-3937 Vodnik
 * (Neutral) (AK) Quad Bike
 * (AM) Barsuk
 * (Neutral) (AM) Rhino
 * (EG) Vodnik AA
 * (Neutral) (EG) Dirt Bike

Tanks

 * BMP-2M
 * T-90A
 * 9K22 Tunguska-M
 * (Btk) BTR-90
 * (AK) BM-21
 * (AK) 2S25 Sprut

Helicopters

 * WZ-11
 * Mi-28 Havoc
 * Ka-60 Kasatka

Aircraft

 * Su-35BM Flanker-E
 * Su-25TM Frogfoot

Battlefield 4
The Russian Army is an available faction featured in Battlefield 4.

Singleplayer
The Russian Army appears as a hostile force in Baku and Tashgar.

In Baku, the RGF is deployed to Baku, Azerbaijan to intercept Tombstone Squad from collecting intelligence from a defecting Russian military general regarding Russia's stance on Admiral Chang's coup d'état in China. Pursuing Tombstone squadron throughout Baku and when Tombstone was about to be extracted, in a last effort deployed an Mi-28 Havoc to intercept them, while destroying the extraction helicopter, they did not succeeded in stopping Tombstone's escape.

In Tashgar, it seems the Russian Ground Forces occupied the town and surrounding areas (including a damaged dam), forcing the Marines stationed there into the old town, when Tombstone arrived, the RGF had gained the upperhand throughout the town. Tombstone Squad managed to fight there way through light Russian armor and troops to get to Greenland. In exchange for a transport to Suez, Tombstone was to blow up a dam (which underneath it was multiple SAM sites). After fighting there way through the dam, tombstone blew up the dam. Thus neutralizing the SAM threat and were transported via a C-130 Cargo Plane.

Weapons Used
The uniforms they wear come in five varieties: one identical to the Support in multiplayer with the exception of their visor for the helmet is down (similar to the PLA in SP ) who always wield a PKP, another identical to the Chinese Engineer who wields either a PP2000 or Saiga-12, a third that is like the Chinese Assault skin without goggles or a facewrap and uses a plain green camo and wields an AK-12, a fourth one is identical to the RU Recon wielding the SV-98 and the fifth functions as an AT troop using the RU Engineer model from MP and uses an AK-12 for close range and a SMAW. However, despite making use of Chinese skins, their weapons are almost all Russian in make -- the AK-12, PP2000, PKP, SV-98 and Saiga 12 are their small arms. However, they do make use of some American weapons such as the SMAW

Assault Rifles
Carbines
 * AK-12
 * AEK-971
 * AN-94
 * AKU-12
 * A-91

Heavy Machine Guns

 * KORD

Launchers

 * SMAW
 * RPG-7

Light Machine Guns

 * PKP Pecheneg
 * RPK
 * RPK-12

Personal Defense Weapons

 * PP-2000
 * AS Val
 * SR-2

Shotguns

 * Saiga-12K
 * DBV-12

Sniper Rifles/Designated Marksman Rifles
Pistols
 * SV-98
 * SVD-12
 * MP443

Vehicles Used
The Russian Ground Forces operate also operate a variety of vehicles. T-90 act as their main battle tanks, witnessed in the two missions they are in. In a brief instance, BMP-2's as their APCs. In Baku, it is seen that the Mi-28 is their attack chopper. Throughout both mission's, their main transport chopper is Ka-60 Kasatka. In both missions, it is seen that their main light vehicle is the VDV Buggy and some of their ground transport include KamAZ-53501.

Multiplayer
The Russian army is pitted against both the USMC and PLA. Due to the choice of factions on a map being up to the server operator, the RGF can appear on any map against any other faction, including the RGF itself, if the server owner wishes so. However, changing the factions on a map is only available on PC.

Default kits
The following loadouts shown below are the kit defaults for the Russian Army in Battlefield 4's multiplayer mode. Unlike Battlefield 3, there are no asymmetric starting weapons (and thus no faction-specific weaponry), and the starting gear and weapons are shared across all three factions, similar to Bad Company 2.

Vehicles
The Russian Ground Forces uses majority home made equipment with the exception of the Z-11W (made in China) and the DV-15 (made in France).

Battlefield 1
The Imperial Russian Army of the Russian Empire is featured as an upcoming faction in Battlefield 1 through its In the Name of the Tsar expansion pack. They fight alongside the Allies of the United Kingdom and the United States against the Central Powers, but on the Eastern Front of the war - fighting within the territories of modern-day Poland and Estonia, as well as Russia itself. In addition, on maps set during the October Revolution, the faction play the part of counter-revolutionaries against the communist Red Army, and is renamed as the White Army.

General

 * In Battlefield: Bad Company & Bad Company 2, the Russian vehicles' HUD color is red.

Battlefield: Bad Company

 * Sometimes, in Bad Company, the soldiers can be heard shouting "Dimitri", a common Russian male name.


 * The Serdaristani soldiers use exactly the same uniforms, equipment, and phrases as the Russian Army.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

 * They are always the Defenders in Squad Rush for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Battlefield 3

 * The first-person model for them in Battlefield 3 is the same as Dimitri's, regardless of class.


 * Both the Russian and USMC announcer will sometimes say "Let's maintain this and we can all go home soon" when they have control of all flags in Conquest, but with different voices.


 * The Russian Army in Battlefield 3 are always the Defenders in Rush and Squad Rush on all maps.
 * The Russian soldiers speak English in first person.

Battlefield 4

 * In the singleplayer campaign, all RGF character models feature People's Republic of China flag patches, which is most-likely an error. Soldiers wielding the PP-2000 will use identical character model to that used by PLA forces wielding the JS2.
 * The singleplayer RGF characters models that wield the AK-12 are reskins of PLA models wielding the QBZ-95-1. Just with a different head model.
 * The first-person voiceovers were done by Andrew Byron, a British actor, which could explain how the grammar and phrasing of some of the voiceovers is incorrect.
 * The Russian soldiers will call the PGZ-95 and 9K22 Tunguska "an enemy tank", and will call the LAV-AD "an enemy AA", along with People's Liberation Army soldiers.

Battlefield 1

 * The Assault class for the Russian Army appears to be wearing a version of the the French M15 Adrian helmet, which was supplied to the Russian Army in 1917 but could not be standardized to the whole army due to its vast size and Russia's limited resources.
 * The Scout class for the Russian Army is female, which is in reference to the 1st Women's Battalion of Death and the Perm Battalion which were all-women battalions of soldiers that served in a few battles during 1917. The idea of the Women's Battalions was supposed to re-harden the strength of the Russian people and the soldiers, showing that "Even the women have taken up arms". While reports of the Women's Battalions fighting against the central powers suggest that they where a relatively effective fighting force, they where unable to strengthen the resolve of the Russian people and Russia fell out of the war in late 1917, and officially left the war in early 1918.
 * In the Name of the Tsar will be the first piece of Battlefield content to include women in the multiplayer outside of the campaign. (In previous campaigns, Battlefield 4 and Hardline had female NPCs, and Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 1 had playable female characters Jennifer Hawkins and Zara Ghufran respectively.)