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This is a list of Jäger units in various national armies. Jäger , or Jaeger , is the German word for " hunter ", and describes a kind of light infantry . [ 1 ] In English the word Jaeger is also translated as " rifleman " or " ranger ".
During the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, the brigade took part in the Eastern Ukraine campaign in the Donetsk Oblast, Lyman direction. [5] On 11 June 2023 the brigade, alongside several territorial defence battalions , took the village of Blahodatne marking the first settlement to be liberated by Ukrainian forces during the counteroffensive.
The 71st Jaeger Brigade (Ukrainian: 71-ша окрема єгерська бригада, romanized: 71-sha okrema yeherska bryhada; 71 ОЄБр Military Unit Number A4030) is a air assault light infantry (Jäger) brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, formed in 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The unit only have been seen to use a small quantity of infantry fighting vehicles such as the BMP-1, with the brigade having approximately 5+ at their disposal. [8] [6] After being redesignated as a Jaeger brigade on 16 August 2024, the brigade was seen with several MRAP vehicles belonging to the 1st Jaeger Battalion. [9]
The unit is located in Sodankylä and Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, some 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. The brigade trains 2,200 conscripts per year. The brigade has two main units: Lapland Jaeger Battalion in Sodankylä and Rovaniemi Air Defence Battalion at Rovaniemi air base. [2]
STORY: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday evening said that the situation at the frontline remained difficult, with Russian forces attempting to advance in the Donbas region and ...
The brigade, one of the youngest formations to be established in the Ground Forces as a result of the expansion of this service in light of the War in Donbass, was raised in 2015 first as a reserve motorized formation of the Ground Forces Command, which would later be transferred in 2017-18 as part of the 4th Army Reserve Corps, with its first brigade HQ and garrison based in Chernihiv ...
Jäger Battalion 24 (Jägerbataillon 24), in Lienz [30] Staff Company (Stabskompanie) 1st Mountain Jäger Company (1. Jägerkompanie hochgebirgsbeweglich), (Note: doubles as Cadre-Presence Unit) 2nd Mountain Jäger Company (2. Jägerkompanie hochgebirgsbeweglich), in St. Johann in Tirol; Jäger Company (Militia) (Jägerkompanie)