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In the end the task of setting up ambushes fell on 3 reconnaissance battalions (650th, 781st and 783rd), 4 spetsnaz detachments (in September 1984, the 668th detachment will be added), 1 spetsnaz company, 20 reconnaissance companies from brigades and regiments and 73 reconnaissance platoons from line battalions, that is, 33 settlement battalions.
The 5th Spetsnaz Brigade is a special forces brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet spetsnaz. [71] In addition, the State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus that was formed from the inherited personnel and operators after the break up of the Soviet Union.
The unit also became involved in the ethnic conflicts throughout the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [10] Alpha was also used as the "spearhead" of KGB counterintelligence operations, interdicting hostile intelligence operations [ 11 ] on Soviet territory and seizing enemy spies such as CIA agent Adolf Tolkachev in 1985. [ 12 ]
The PSS was developed to give Soviet special forces and secret police an almost completely silent option for covert operations such as reconnaissance and assassinations. The weapon uses a special cartridge with an internal piston to achieve this goal. Otherwise, it is a fairly simple double-action pistol. Few details are known about the pistol ...
Issued in 1980, it provided inadequate protection in Afghanistan and subsequently phased out. ... Suppressed sniper rifle used by special forces like Spetsnaz [7 ...
The unit was formed in 1981 by the KGB Maj. Gen. Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov [8] within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, as a dedicated spetsnaz unit specialised in deep penetration, sabotage, universal direct and covert action, protection of Soviet embassies and espionage cell activation in case of war. Most of the Vympel operatives mastered ...
It was manufactured by the Tula Arms Plant for Soviet Spetsnaz troops in the 1980s, and is still used as a personal weapon for modern Spetsnaz troops and special law enforcement groups. The NRS-2 is designed for either stabbing or throwing with the blade, or fired at distances of up to 25 metres.
The Battle of Maravar Pass (also known as Marawara Pass) [1] was an operation by the 334th Detached Spetsnaz group in the Afghan villages of Sangam and Daridam on April 21, 1985, during the Soviet–Afghan War. Mujahideen forces ambushed the Soviet force in Maravar Gorge, cutting off its 1st company and inflicting heavy casualties.