The FSB is the successor to the KGB, it also took over two units - Specgruppa And and Specgruppa In (Alfa and Vympel)
Alpha (specgruppa And, since 1974) – counter-terrorism unit and the unit to rescue the hostages on the territory of Russia, if necessary, can perform various military and police tasks. To the establishment of this unit decided after the Munich massacre in 1972. Main office in Moscow, a large branch in st. Petersburg, Vladivostok and Murmansk.
Training: defensive driving (from passenger cars to armored for armor), the use of different types of weapons, blasting, instinctive shooting, part of a unit is a group of combat swimmers designed to underwater demolitions. Some members of the practicing with the Baltic fleet and in Cuba.
Deployment: the intervention against the kidnappers of the aircraft Tu-134, flying from georgia's Tbilisi to Leningrad in 1983.
The arrest of a CIA agent (Adolf Tolkačev).
The attack on the palace Dar-ul-Aman in Afghanistan in 1979, where the Alpha only lost 2 members and killed afghan president Amína and his 200 bodyguards.
In 1985 she was the Alpha deployed in lebanon's Beirut, where freed of the soviet diplomats.
Further participated in the coup in the disintegration of the USSR.
After a long time he was a very successful intervention carried out against terrorists in a moscow theater surrounding the election winner in 2002, where there were about 800 prisoners. During the attack killed 129 captives and 33 of the chechen insurgents, who were on the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. Among the dead prisoners were citizens of Ukraine, USA, Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands.
1. September 2004 was captured by terrorists in a school in Beslan 1,100 people, among them about 777 children. The third day of the siege came the powerful blast of the gym and started to attack the Alphas and the other sections Specnazu. In the subsequent fire killed 160 people. In the attack on the building was used several helicopters Mi-17 and Mi-24, two T-72 tanks, armored personnel carriers BTR-80. Total killed more than 390 people, among them 7 people from the Alphas (among them was the commander of the offensive unit).
Vympel (specgruppa In, since 1981) – the name means banner, flag. Earlier specialization on the in-depth investigation, sabotage, protection of embassies and espionage, now mainly to fight against terrorists and nuclear protection.
Training involves fighting without weapons, parachute jump, scuba diving and underwater combat techniques, climbing and mountaineering. Local units Vympelu are located in cities with important nuclear objects.
Deployment: the arrest of the chechen commanders in 2000 and the attack on the terrorists in the beslan school, where Vympel has lost 9 members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQGXf5b7dU.
Alpha (specgruppa And, since 1974) – counter-terrorism unit and the unit to rescue the hostages on the territory of Russia, if necessary, can perform various military and police tasks. To the establishment of this unit decided after the Munich massacre in 1972. Main office in Moscow, a large branch in st. Petersburg, Vladivostok and Murmansk.
Training: defensive driving (from passenger cars to armored for armor), the use of different types of weapons, blasting, instinctive shooting, part of a unit is a group of combat swimmers designed to underwater demolitions. Some members of the practicing with the Baltic fleet and in Cuba.
Deployment: the intervention against the kidnappers of the aircraft Tu-134, flying from georgia's Tbilisi to Leningrad in 1983.
The arrest of a CIA agent (Adolf Tolkačev).
The attack on the palace Dar-ul-Aman in Afghanistan in 1979, where the Alpha only lost 2 members and killed afghan president Amína and his 200 bodyguards.
In 1985 she was the Alpha deployed in lebanon's Beirut, where freed of the soviet diplomats.
Further participated in the coup in the disintegration of the USSR.
After a long time he was a very successful intervention carried out against terrorists in a moscow theater surrounding the election winner in 2002, where there were about 800 prisoners. During the attack killed 129 captives and 33 of the chechen insurgents, who were on the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. Among the dead prisoners were citizens of Ukraine, USA, Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands.
1. September 2004 was captured by terrorists in a school in Beslan 1,100 people, among them about 777 children. The third day of the siege came the powerful blast of the gym and started to attack the Alphas and the other sections Specnazu. In the subsequent fire killed 160 people. In the attack on the building was used several helicopters Mi-17 and Mi-24, two T-72 tanks, armored personnel carriers BTR-80. Total killed more than 390 people, among them 7 people from the Alphas (among them was the commander of the offensive unit).
Vympel (specgruppa In, since 1981) – the name means banner, flag. Earlier specialization on the in-depth investigation, sabotage, protection of embassies and espionage, now mainly to fight against terrorists and nuclear protection.
Training involves fighting without weapons, parachute jump, scuba diving and underwater combat techniques, climbing and mountaineering. Local units Vympelu are located in cities with important nuclear objects.
Deployment: the arrest of the chechen commanders in 2000 and the attack on the terrorists in the beslan school, where Vympel has lost 9 members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQGXf5b7dU.