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The GROM Military Unit (Polish: Jednostka Wojskowa GROM), is a Polish special forces unit and forms part of the Special Troops Command of the Polish Armed Forces. It is believed to consist of around 250 operatives plus support personnel. [1] GROM is considered to be the most elite unit in the Polish Armed Forces. [2]
Organisation of the Polish People's Army in 1985 [2]. Land Forces Headquarters, in Warsaw. Polish Front Command, in Warsaw (would have formed the Warsaw Pact’s Northern Front with an authorized strength of 205,620 soldiers in wartime) [citation needed]
The Polish Armed forces currently operate a total of 140 G-class vehicles. [15] The Land forces operate 121 GD 290s and MB290GD WDs. [14] The military police uses 13 GD 290s. [14] Tarpan Honker: 4x4: Honker Skorpion 3 special version: Used by JW komandosów: Polish made off-road vehicles, best variants are powered with Polish Andoria engines ...
The Polish People's Army (Polish: Ludowe Wojsko Polskie, pronounced [luˈdɔvɛ ˈvɔjskɔ ˈpɔlskʲɛ]; LWP) [1] was the second formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the East during the latter stages of the Second World War (1943–1945), and subsequently the armed forces of the Polish communist state (1945–1989), which was formalized in 1952 as the Polish People's Republic.
Even though the unit's name did not receive its "Commando" (Komandosów) moniker until 1995, it officially became a Special Operations Forces unit of the Polish Armed Forces following the 1993 executive order; making at the time 1 Pułk Specjalny the only unit subordinated to the command of the Land Forces branch of the Polish Army while at the ...
GroM, a drummer for Norwegian black metal band Ancient (band); Józef Chyliński (1904—1985; codenamed "Grom"), Polish resistance fighter; Grom Gravalid (ringname: Gromguten), a wrestler from Høydalsmo, Tokke, Telemark, Norway
On 25 August 1980, a special commission was created in Moscow to formulate policy in response to developments in Poland. It was headed by senior Communist Party ideologist Mikhail Suslov , and included KGB chairman Yuri Andropov , foreign minister Andrei Gromyko , and defense minister Dmitriy Ustinov .
"WRONa, WRONa über alles", a political leaflet caricature from the 1980s.The "crow" is wearing sunglasses much like General Jaruzelski often did. The Military Council of National Salvation (Polish: Wojskowa Rada Ocalenia Narodowego, abbreviated to WRON) was a military junta administering the Polish People's Republic during the period of martial law in Poland between 1981 and 1983.