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The number of divisions, thus, decreased to 11. In April 1955 the transport aircraft were separated from the VDV and the Air Force Military Transport Aviation was created. In 1959 the 31st and 107th Guards Airborne Divisions were disbanded, but in October 1960 the 44th Training Airborne Division was formed. In 1964 the Soviet Airborne Forces ...
The unit was created in 1994, as a regiment comprising the 901st Air Assault Battalion and the 218th Spetsnaz Battalion of the Russian Airborne Forces. Colonel Pavel Popovskikh is credited with the creation of the 45th Spetsnaz as a “subunit of the future”, designed to wage the counterinsurgency warfare for which the Russian armed forces ...
The Airborne Forces Command answers to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and is responsible for the organization, development, training of the VDV, as well as the planning and implementation of operations involving VDV units. The Command includes the following senior officials, and the titles and the number of the ...
The weapons, vehicles and equipment used in the Russo-Ukrainian War, from 2014 to the present include the following.The war involves the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Russia, the Korean People's Army, and a number of national guard and volunteer groups.
The Zh-86 covers a larger body area, and its construction uses titanium alloy, ceramics, and special steel. [3]: ... Used by paratroopers and Spetsnaz.
Propels ~485/540 steel projectiles to a kill radius of 50 meters. MON-90 [7] Anti-personnel mine: Tripwire/Command Soviet Union: Propels ~2000 steel projectiles to a kill radius of 90 meters. OZM-72 [7] Anti-personnel bounding mine: Tripwire/Command Soviet Union ~500g TNT, propels ~2400 steel projectiles. MON-100 [7] Anti-personnel mine ...
On 24 February 2022, a few hours after the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a "special military operation" in Ukraine, Russian troops of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) made an air assault on Antonov Airport with the objective of capturing it.
The 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment is an airborne regiment of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV). Based at Feodosia in Crimea, the regiment is part of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. [1] It was formed in 2021 from the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade, based at Kamyshin. [2]