Have a look at any given scenario, compare the area and the forces involved. In most scenarios you could infiltrate and exfiltrate in a Lada Niva without unacceptable risk.

You're too much accustomed to the high end luxury solution.


LRS teams of a few men would not need and not get a helicopter QRF in a major conventional war. That's peacetime nonsense. Corps commanders must not care about a sub-squad sized team when they're facing full brigades. There are always better uses for a MilSpec helicopter on a full war battlefield than waiting on a helipad for an emergency call or facing hostile air defences for the mere insertion of two surveillance teams.

LRS would also not exfiltrate just because rations are depleted. They would organise some food and relocate by a few kilometres. The hostiles will likely not have the personnel to execute sweeps anyway.

One more shocker: LRS in wartime (challenging, major conflict) would quickly become 90-95% quickly retrained personnel, not some elite force. The present LRS strengths suffice barely for maintaining enough experts for wartime trainer needs.


I save this file under "encountered yet another quality exaggeration, zero casualty tolerance peacetime attitude".