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Airborne troops carrying a cumulative indication of the AIRBORNE troops, have transport aircraft, the airborne regiments and brigades and separate reconnaissance units.

About the extent of the AIRBORNE troops speak the numbers of paratroopers. During exercise in 1934, jumped down at the same time 900 men, in other years the numbers have increased. In June 1940 carried out a 214. parachute regiment parachute jump with the aim of capturing several smaller airports in the vicinity of the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai less than 100km from East Prussia. In the same month in 201. and 204. parachute brigade descended on the city of Izmail and Bolgrad in ploješťských oil fields. Since then the numbers of AIRBORNE troops to increase.



AIRBORNE day is celebrated annually 2. August



Deployment after the year 1945:

Czechoslovakia 1968: 103. airy airborne division (VDD) used in the Prague of the vehicle ASU-85 and BMD, the unit drove through the city and attacked the Prague castle. The rest of the division had occupied all the important places in Prague

107. feathery parachute division occupied the airport Brno

Afghanistan: the cast of the airport and the radio transmitters in 1979, then the AIRBORNE troops participated in most of the fighting in Afghanistan

Abkhazia, Georgia: 345. separate airborne regiment, subsequently přejmeovaný on 10. the peace, the away the regiment, he served from 90. years as part of a peacekeeping force

Bosnia: Ugljevik

Kosovo: cast airport Pristina

Chechnya: AIRBORNE troops as a beachhead for more troops



AIRBORNE Division (VDD):

7. VDD - Novorossiysk

76.VDD - Pskov, Leningrad v. o.

98.VDD - Ivanovo

31.VDD - Ulyanovsk

106.VDD - Tula, Moscow v. o

242. the training center of the AIRBORNE troops, Omsk, Siberian v. o

45. reconnaissance regiment (the common command of VDV and GRU)

Training:
the main training center of the AIRBORNE troops in Ryazan, where Rjazaňské higher airy airborne officers ' school (RVVDKU)



Armament:

THE AK-74M

AKS-74

AKS-74U

RPK-74

PKM

7.62 mm “Pečeneg” machine gun replacing the PKM

Dragunov SVD

Dragunov SVU, improved bullpup version of the SVD

GP-25 and GP-30 suspended ceiling 40mm grenade launcher

AGS-17 “Plamja“


Technique:

FIRM-2 - reconnaissance vehicle, from 70. years, uses ground navigation system. Armament: machine gun SGMB 7.62 mm, machine gun KPVT 14.5 mm. Speed: 100km/h, water 10km/h

BTR-60 - BTR-80: an armored truck, for 16 soldiers. Armament: machine gun of 12.7 mm, 1-3 machine gun SGMB and PK 7.62 mm. Speed: 80km/h, water 10km/h

ASU-85 airborne assault gun, from 60. years, protection against weapons of mass destruction, night vision. Armament: cannon SD-44 85mm, machine gun PKT 7.62 mm. Speed 44 km/h

BMD-1, BMD-2: the airborne vehicle of fire support, from 70. years the crew of 3+6, a lot of deployed in Afghanistan. Armament: the turret of the BMP - low-pressure cannon 73mm, spražený PKT machine gun, guided missile, 2 machine guns PKT 7.62 mm in the front corners of the hull. Speed: 85km/h, water 10km/h

Now introducing modern BMD-3 and BMD-4

D-30 - 122mm field howitzer, operation 7 soldiers, in addition to conventional and chemical shells may on its grooved barrel to shoot also a non-rotating point armor piercing missile with wings, usable against armored targets. Weight: 3150 kg. Elevation -7° to +70°, the gun arc 360°, max range 15 300m, muzzle velocity: 690m/s

Other vehicles: Ural, GAZ-66, KAMAZ, UAZ

Offensive units: 4 rifle battalions - in 1-2 of them 32 BMD + section with 18 cannons.

a cross-Section of history

AIRBORNE begins its history 2. August 1930, when, during the sample exercises of the Moscow military district in Voroneže carried out the first airdrop of 10 people with guns. After landing they picked up the paratroopers containers with machine guns, rifles and ammunition, subsequently fulfilled the specified tasks. The Experiment was successful. The results of a series of exercises and maneuvers with the paratroopers have been in the 30's. years, so successful that it was possible to proceed to the mass formation of airborne units in the ranks of the Red army. At the beginning of the Great patriotic war was terminated by the formation of 5 air commando corpora. In the first days of the war already waged a defensive battle in the Baltics, in Ukraine, in Belarus.

Airy landing group was in the years of the Great patriotic war transferred to the missile units and bear no small share of the victory in such events as the battle of Moscow, defense of Stalingrad, Kursk battle, and also the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus and countries in Europe from the German-fascist invaders.

The AIRBORNE troops carried on their shoulders the heaviest burden during operations in Afghanistan. After the afghan events with many units of the AIRBORNE troops were used to the peace missions in the former soviet republics. More than once formed the paratroopers living shields between the conflicting parties in Baku, Karabakh, South and North Ossetia, in Nursing, in Transnistria and in the zone of the Georgian abcházského conflict.

In the mid-90's. years 20. century AIRBORNE with honor fulfilled a peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia, Abkhazia, Transnistria. Invaluable is the proportion of "blue berets" in creating peace and calm in the north caucasus region. Golden letters in the history of the AIRBORNE troops entered the performance of the paratroopers 6. parašutno-airborne company 76. guards airborne assault division, who gave their lives in the unequal fight on a dimension 776,0 near the settlement of Ulus-Kert in the Chechen republic.

Today VDV developing dynamically, to their armaments comes a new modern martial technique, connecting resources, reconnaissance equipment and equipment of the landing party.

In the clusters and units of the AIRBORNE troops is traditionally a high percentage of soldiers professionals. The AIRBORNE troops are traditionally strong in their traditions and remain nejsjednocenějším kind of troops of the Armed forces of the Russian federation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9FvMArNqG4.