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Taliban Insurgency [RHS]

Special Operation Forces Faction mod, RHS Version [SFF-R] that adds the Taliban Insurgency to Arma 3. It is mostly based on the 1996-2009 era of Taliban in Afghanistan.

Note this version is dependant on RHS Escalation. If you would prefer different dependancies there is a SMA/ NIA version also available. They are not compatible with each other and cannot be enabled at the same time.

Historical Info-

The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan- by 1994 they had moved into Afghanistan with the promise of restoring peace and security through the intoduction of Sharia once they were in power. After the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 they became an insurgency and continued to fight using geurilla tactics.

The Faction-

The Taliban Insurgents are wearing Afghan-style robes and consist of mostly smaller groups of infantry forces, armed with AKM's and a small number of AK74's, with the AKS-74-U in use in some roles as a 'prestige' weapon, such as Taliban cell leaders. They lack equipment light body armor, night vision or easy access to scoped weapons, relying instead of ambush tactics, hit and run, and IED's to damage BLUFOR or INDEP forces, who they cannot stand up to in a direct gunfight.

Specialist Elements-

The Taliban forces have elite units, based on the 'Red Group', also known as ' Sara Khitta'. They are given better equipment such as light body armor and AK-74 rifles, as well as night vision optics on their rifles. The unit was formed in Helmand Province, 2015, they were formed to perform night raids on Afghan Army forces, as well as sabotage and attacks on supply lines. A small number of the soldiers are foreign fighters, not ethically Afghan.


Supports-

The Taliban are supported by light vehicles such as technicals, trucks and have fire support from mortars, but only have very limited number of armored BMP-1's, loosely based on Operation Anaconda in 2002.
Some Taliban fighters have heavier machineguns intergrated into their teams, meaning they can engage from longer distance, or use sniper rifles to harrass forces. Static gun teams will now deploy and assemble their backpacks in combat if using V-Com AI.

Faction has full Editor, Zeus, Task Force Radio and ALiVE support (faction name TBI ) Also supports ACE3 Medical system.