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2. Battle of Antonov Airport - Wikipedia

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   300 in the airport garrison [1] Unknown number of ground troops, tanks, and armored vehicles as reinforcements; Several BM-21 (per Russia) At least two Su-24s; Several MiG-29s [5] At least two Mi-24s; Casualties and losses; Per Russia: None (second assault wave) [4] Per Ukraine: 300–500 paratroopers killed [6] [7] Several helicopters shot ...

3. Russian Airborne Forces - Wikipedia

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   Paratroopers of the 106th Guards Airborne Division in Kazakhstan, 1999 VDV spetsnaz in Georgia during the Russo-Georgian War, 2008 At the end of the Bosnian War in late 1995 the United States wanted Russia to participate in the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) that was deployed to ensure that the Dayton Accord was followed. [ 28 ]

4. Battle for Height 776 - Wikipedia

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   The goal of a regimental combat group task force of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) tactical group in the area, based on the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 76th Division and including also teams from the GRU Spetsnaz, and the elite Vympel group of the FSB, was to block an exit from a gorge, while other Russian forces attempted to encircle a large Chechen force departing the village of ...

5. 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Soviet Airborne Forces - Wikipedia

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   A group of parachutists Ya.D. Moshkovsky (far left) before the landing on August 2, 1930 Soviet paratroopers deploy from a Tupolev TB-3 in 1930. The first airborne forces parachute jump is dated to 2 August 1930, taking place in the Moscow Military District. Airborne landing detachments were established after the initial 1930 experimental jump ...

7. 2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Wikipedia

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   The creation of the brigade began on September 17, 1962 and ended on March 1, 1963. Until 2008 [ 2 ] or 2013, Dmitry Utkin served as lieutenant colonel and brigade commander of a unit of special forces of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the 700th Independent Spetsnaz Detachment of the 2nd Independent Brigade.

8. Special Operations Forces (Russia) - Wikipedia

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   [20] [1] The Special Operations Forces Command is similar in role to the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. [42] The command reached full operational capability later in 2013 and also serves as the central command authority for the entire SOF structure of which is subordinate directly to the General Staff.

9. 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment - Wikipedia

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   In August 1999, a battalion sized task force of the regiment was deployed to fight in the Second Chechen War. After being withdrawn from Chechnya in November 2004, the regiment once again became the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade on 1 May 2009 and in July 2010 was designated as the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade (Light). [ 3 ]