Let’s visit the 16th special forces brigade. Get to know the army life. Have you ever been to the firing ground? We offer you to see how the soldiers of the 16th special forces brigade do their business. Specially for this day, officers arranged a demonstration available to everyone.
The brigade was formed on January 2, 1963 and on April 29, 1969 it was given the Military Banner.
March, 1985 – August, 1988 – a detachment was carrying out missions in Afghanistan.
28.09 – 30.11.1992 – 2 deteachments were sent to Tajikistan.
13.01 – 02.05.1995 – special missions in Chechnya.
14.08.1999 – September, 2006 – an independent detachment took part in counter-terrorist operation on the territory of Ciscaucasia. 4 officers were bestowed a title of Hero of Russia.
October, 2001 – May, 2002 – peacekeeping operations in Kosovo.
In 2003 the brigade was dislocated from Chychkovo (Ryazan region) to Tambov.
In 2005 and 2006 military delegations from Belarus, Vietnam and Jordan visited the brigade. The brigade also took part in tactical exercises in Jordan.
August, 2008 – October, 2009 – peacekeeping operations in Georgia and North Abkhazia.
149 soldiers of the brigade were killed in all including 49 in Afghanistan, 50 in the 1st Chechen war and 52 in the 2nd Chechen war.
We could observe a demonstration of the battle consisting of several stages – moving-out, detection, destruction of the enemy and falling back under the lee of friendly fire.
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The battle took place at the firing ground Trigulyay. The soldiers used live ammunition so we couldn’t take pictures too close.
A fighting machine “Tiger”. These car have light armour. Officers say that special forces need heavy armoured cars to hold any attack.
All the snipers hold contracts. They earn 30 000 rubles (1000 USD) per month.
Usually they use Dragunov sniper rifle. Reconnaissance snipers are given VSS Vintorez. And the best of the best snipers use foreign rifles
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Sako TRG-42
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H-S Precision carabine
SSG04 rifle
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Russian backsight 1P59 “Gimeron” on Dragunov sniper rifle.
Snipers are given anemometers, pocket weather trackers, night vision equipment, range finders amd other devices.
Night vision.
PVS-14
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Vector binocular
Second sniper use this tool to observe and correct the shooting.
Assault rifle AN-94 “Abakan”
Assault rifle AS “Val”
Heavy machine gun NSV “Ytes”
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One of the snipers
In 2006 old cars were substituted for armoured Urals.
Next we viewed passing around an obstacle course.
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Sometimes soldiers have 10 hours of training every twenty-four hours: 8 day hours and 2 – at night.
Photo of wash room…is there a single skilled plumber in all of Russia?
Ahh. My old unit.
Nice to see that we are still given highest priority above all.
These pictures originally came from twower.livejournal.com/661958.html. Isn’t that plagiarism?!
I’m confused. Isn’t everything published on English Russia taken from someone else’s website? How is this different?
And seeing as the 24th is special forces day, my congratulations to all russian spetsnaz and osnaz.
Ura!
Some more about para training. http://onepamop.livejournal.com/855599.html
Cool link, thanks ayaa!
Thanx. Do you, by any chance, understand russian?
Do they actually use the An-94? I mean is it in service or still a tech demonstrator.
Yes. We do. However, it’s available only for elite forces.
My personal favourite.
Sp Russians are using American rifles now?
One of those bolt action rifles is from HS Precision, an American company.
One should use the best weapon available if possible that one looks like a very well made Remington 700 the M24 or M40 in US service elite US units also use HS Precision 700s in .300 Win Mag or Lapua .338 two highly accurate and lethal rounds.
Whats with the telescope on Abakan AR..?
That is a night sight.
Why on earth would a sniper want to use a rifle with a shiny stainless steel barrel like the one on the Sako? –Doesn’t that detract from a sniper’s ability to conceal themself?
Also, yeah, what is that thing on the Abakan?
Most times when in the field snipers will paint the stock and barrel an earthy color and often they will attach strips of materiel around the barrel and scope much like the ghillie suit for the body.A good sniper is as skilled at blending in with the surrounding environment and making natural shapes disappear.Even a slight change in grass color can stand out to a trained eye and a sniper must be good enough to avoid getting sighted by another sniper with equally skilled eyes.
And the large “thing” on the AN-94 is an older style night sight it would look shades of green in the eye piece it is just like night vision goggles just a little larger and designed with aiming a weapon in mind rather than merely improving night vision as the goggles do.
I think I’ve found the ultimate collection of tactical poser dbags. View and weep
http://doodiepants.com/2011/12/08/when-call-of-duty-isnt-enough-airsoft-heroes/