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Military / Defense | | Russian term or phrase: Заместитель командира мотострелковой роты гвардейской дивизии | | This is part of a sentense I am translating. Thanks for your help! |
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1 day5 hrs confidence:   Second-in-command of a Guards Division Motor Rifle Company
Explanation:
Second-in-command sounds more English. Deputy commander, of course, sounds more Soviet so it depends what matters most. Also, a goodle search on Motor Rifle immediately refers to innumerable Soviet/Russian units and seems to be preferred to motorized. Inversion to get rid of too many genitives always seems a good idea!
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Note added at 6 days (2011-10-10 14:17:22 GMT)
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Since Russian can say: "мотопехотa" but generally doesn't since this is seen as "foreign". We can keep the distinction by using "Motor Rifles". More basically, when I was training, motor rifles was simply the translation of choice so it's become axiomatic.
МОТОСТРЕЛКОВЫЕ ВОЙСКА - род Сухопутных войск (с 1963). Состоят из мотострелковых соединений, частей и подразделений, в которые входят мотострелковые, артиллерийские, танковые и др. части и подразделения. В зарубежных армиях именуются пехотой, мотопехотой, механизированными войсками.
|  melanya
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Asker: What do you think of just "motorized company"? Also, why "rifle" and not "infantry"? THANKS!!!
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