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The Soviet public used to know very little about their country's special forces until many state secrets were disclosed under the glasnost ("openness") policy of Mikhail Gorbachev during the late 1980s. Since then, stories about spetsnaz and their purportedly incredible prowess, from the serious to the highly questionable, have captivated the ...
A depiction of a Spetsnaz GRU training installation as published in Soviet Military Power, 1984. Spetsnaz GRU, formally known as Special Forces of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, (Russian: Части и подразделения специального назначения Главного управления Генерального штаба ...
Issued in 1980, it provided inadequate protection in Afghanistan and subsequently phased out. ... Suppressed sniper rifle used by special forces like Spetsnaz [7 ...
Soviet troops needed a ... The beginning of the plan was the redeployment in March 1984 to the eastern provinces of two spetsnaz formations formed in 1980, which had ...
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 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 ...
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]
Commanders of the 14th Spetsnaz Brigade [1] No. Name From To 1 Colonel Pavel N. Rymin 1963 1970 2 Colonel Alexander A. Drozdov 1970 1973 3 Colonel Nikolai A. Demchenko 1973 1975 4 Colonel Anatoly M. Baglai 1975 1978 5 Colonel Viktor F. Grishmanovsky 1978 1980 6 Colonel Vitaly A. Onatsky 1980 1987 7 Colonel Yakov A. Kurys 1987 1992 8