separately, because there are also natural barriers there - mountains, which is only worth the panjer gorge fortieth army of the ussr tried to take the impregnable natural fortress. the pyatel gorge, as the name is translated, was of great strategic importance, because it is the only route for road transport from the capital kabul to the north of the country. and although the ussr forces were able to briefly take control of the territory, as a result the army was forced to retreat. 30,000 soviet soldiers took part in the operation. how many died has not yet been established. in general, official losses in afghanistan are 15,000 people. the command, as a rule, does not, uh, plan to send serious units underground, because they will run into a huge number of booby traps, branch tunnels, well, that is, special false branches are made, the group goes there, some kind of device is triggered, so to speak, the device is there at the end, the entrance collapses and just a group of people remains walled up inside, also.. ... how in narrow corridors any effectiveness of such a modern army, which has t