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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 ...
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.
KSK-sniper during training. The German Army currently operates the Fernspähkompanie (Germany's elite long range reconnaissance company), and the Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK). The KSK is stationed in Calw, in the Black Forest area in southern Germany. It consists of about 1,100 soldiers, but only a nucleus of these are in fighting units.
Another 135,000 private military contractors were also working in Iraq. [1] [2] Due to International military intervention against ISIL, personnel have returned to old bases and new bases created. Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal.
159 ordered by the German armed forces with 24,400 rounds, to be shared between the army, the air force, the navy, the special forces and the artillery and technical schools. Developed by Rheinmetall for the German Army and the KSK special forces [77]
NATO military symbol for the Kampfschwimmer. Naval Special Forces Command, also called the Kampfschwimmer (KSM; English: Combat Swimmers, lit. ' combat swimmers" ') [1] or Verwendungsgruppe 3402 (Deployment Group 3402), are an elite special operations unit of the German Navy, specializing in commando and amphibious warfare operations.
Kampfschwimmerkommando 18 [2] (English: Combat Swimmer Command 18), or KSK-18, [3] was a naval special warfare unit in the Volksmarine that specialized in amphibious warfare, clandestine operation, commando style raids, defusing and disposal of naval mine or various types of bombs, irregular warfare, marine salvage, maritime search and rescue, naval special warfare operations, personal ...
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly known as the Special Operations Forces (SOF; Russian: Силы специальных операций; ССО, romanized: Sily spetsial’nykh operatsiy; SSO), [19] [20] are strategic-level special forces under the Special Operations Forces Command (Russian: командование сил ...