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Heliborne training (2000 ILA Berlin Air Show). The Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) (English: Special Operations Forces (SOF), [1] [3] alternatively Special Operations Forces Command (SOFCOM) [4]) is a unified combatant command and a large brigade-level unit of the German Army (Heer) for black operation, capture or kill high-value targets, counterterrorism and hostage rescue crisis management ...
2016: GSG 9 was deployed to assist with the 2016 Munich shooting. [28] [29] 2021: GSG 9 was participating in the search for Jürgen Conings, Belgium. [30] 2022: GSG 9 units were involved in raids to arrest members of the Reichsbürger movement suspected of plotting to overthrow the German government. [31]
Germany received 185 PzH 2000 between 1998 and 2002. Some were sold: Croatia: 16 sold Lithuania: 21 sold Ukraine: 14 transferred (2022) Prior to the transfer to Ukraine in 2022, 108 were in service, 40 in storage. Since then, the ones in storage are being restored. [133] [134]
New short range precision rifle ordered for the KSK in August 2024, to be delivered by 2025. [10] The weapon is to be equipped with a Schmidt & Bender 5-20 × 50 PM II Ultra Short rifle scope. Agreement for 500 rifles; Grenade launchers Steyr Arms GL40 A1 Austria: Under-barrel grenade launcher. 40×46 mm LV. 40×46mm LV
The KSK is currently supported by the German Army Aviation Corps and - since the reorientation of the Bundeswehr in 2010 - by the helicopter force of the German Air Force. In 2015, the KSK got its aviation component made up of 15 EC645 T2 utility helicopters. They will be part of the Helicopter Wing 64 at the Holzdorf Air Base.
In 2004, an estimated 40 members of JTF 2 serving with Task Force K-Bar were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation by the U.S. government for service in Afghanistan. [16] Very little is known on JTF 2 operations in Afghanistan, but during a conference the former Chief of Defence Staff , General Rick Hillier , stated that JTF 2 was in "high ...
The MP7 allows a conventional 20, 30 or 40-round box magazine to be fitted within the pistol grip (the 20-round magazine is comparable in size to a 15-round 9×19mm magazine, while the 40-round magazine compares to a 30-round 9×19mm magazine). It features an ambidextrous fire selector, bolt catch lever and magazine release.
In Eckernförde a combat frogman group was set up, it consists of a mine clearance diver company and a commando frogmen company. Allegedly the weapon diver group has 250 men. The commando frogmen company had, according to strength and equipment records, 3 groups, each with 16 men. Of it, approximately 40 men are actively operational.