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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Gallery </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" 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href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%96" title="Паветрана-дэсантныя войскі Расійскай Федэрацыі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Паветрана-дэсантныя войскі Расійскай Федэрацыі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8A%D0%B7%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Въздушно-десантни войски на Руската федерация – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Въздушно-десантни войски на Руската федерация" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDV" title="VDV – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="VDV" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%BDsadkov%C3%A9_vojsko_(Rusko)" title="Výsadkové vojsko (Rusko) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Výsadkové vojsko (Rusko)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_russiske_luftb%C3%A5rne_styrker" title="De russiske luftbårne styrker – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="De russiske luftbårne styrker" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftlandetruppen_(Russland)" title="Luftlandetruppen (Russland) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Luftlandetruppen (Russland)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venemaa_%C3%B5hudessantv%C3%A4ed" title="Venemaa õhudessantväed – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Venemaa õhudessantväed" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%82_%CE%91%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%94%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%AC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82" title="Ρωσικές Αερομεταφερόμενες Δυνάμεις – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ρωσικές Αερομεταφερόμενες Δυνάμεις" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropas_Aerotransportadas_de_Rusia" title="Tropas Aerotransportadas de Rusia – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tropas Aerotransportadas de Rusia" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDV" title="VDV – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="VDV" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%87" title="نیروی هوابرد روسیه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نیروی هوابرد روسیه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troupes_a%C3%A9roport%C3%A9es_de_la_f%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_de_Russie" title="Troupes aéroportées de la fédération de Russie – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Troupes aéroportées de la fédération de Russie" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9F%AC%EC%8B%9C%EC%95%84_%EA%B3%B5%EC%88%98%EA%B5%B0" title="러시아 공수군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="러시아 공수군" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruske_zra%C4%8Dnodesantne_snage" title="Ruske zračnodesantne snage – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ruske zračnodesantne snage" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasukan_Lintas_Udara_Rusia" title="Pasukan Lintas Udara Rusia – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Pasukan Lintas Udara Rusia" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozdu%C5%A1no-desantnye_vojska" title="Vozdušno-desantnye vojska – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Vozdušno-desantnye vojska" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99" title="חיל הצנחנים הרוסי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="חיל הצנחנים הרוסי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gideszant-csapatok_(Oroszorsz%C3%A1g)" title="Légideszant-csapatok (Oroszország) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Légideszant-csapatok (Oroszország)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkatan_Airborne_Rusia" title="Angkatan Airborne Rusia – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Angkatan Airborne Rusia" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E7%A9%BA%E6%8C%BA%E8%BB%8D" title="ロシア空挺軍 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ロシア空挺軍" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_russiske_luftlandestyrker" title="De russiske luftlandestyrker – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="De russiske luftlandestyrker" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dei_russiske_flyborne_styrkane" title="Dei russiske flyborne styrkane – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Dei russiske flyborne styrkane" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojska_Powietrznodesantowe_Federacji_Rosyjskiej" title="Wojska Powietrznodesantowe Federacji Rosyjskiej – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wojska Powietrznodesantowe Federacji Rosyjskiej" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropas_Aerotransportadas_da_Federa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Russa" title="Tropas Aerotransportadas da Federação Russa – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Tropas Aerotransportadas da Federação Russa" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Воздушно-десантные войска Российской Федерации – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" 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style="padding-right: 1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces" title="Russian Armed Forces">Russian Armed Forces</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">Airborne forces</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Role</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Light_infantry" title="Light infantry">Light infantry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">Airborne infantry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Air_assault" title="Air assault">Airmobile infantry</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">45,000 (2023)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Blue Berets, Winged Infantry, Troops of Uncle Vasya, Angels of Death</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Никто, кроме нас! 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War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Dagestan" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Dagestan">War in Dagestan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Chechen_War" title="Second Chechen War">Second Chechen War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Incident_at_Pristina_airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Incident at Pristina airport">Incident at Pristina airport</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War" title="Russo-Georgian War">Russo-Georgian War</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Desert_campaign_(May%E2%80%93July_2017)" title="Syrian Desert campaign (May–July 2017)">Operation Grand Dawn</a> (allegedly)<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Kazakh_unrest" title="2022 Kazakh unrest">2022 Kazakh unrest</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eng.mil.ru/en/structure/forces/airborne.htm">Official website</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Commander</th><td class="infobox-data">Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Teplinsky" title="Mikhail Teplinsky">Mikhail Teplinsky</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Chief of Staff and First Deputy commander</th><td class="infobox-data">Colonel General <a href="/w/index.php?title=Evgeniy_Alekseevich_Ustinov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evgeniy Alekseevich Ustinov (page does not exist)">Evgeniy Ustinov</a> [<a 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data-file-width="134" data-file-height="87" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Russia)" title="Ministry of Defence (Russia)">Ministry of Defence</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#679267; color:#f9f9f9;"> Staff</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Great_emblem_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Great_emblem_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg.png 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Ground_Forces.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Ground_Forces.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Ground_Forces.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Ground_Forces.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1826" data-file-height="2200" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Russian_Ground_Forces" title="Russian Ground Forces">Russian Ground Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Aerospace_Forces.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Aerospace_Forces.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Aerospace_Forces.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Aerospace_Forces.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Aerospace_Forces.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Russian Navy">Russian Navy</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#679267; color:#f9f9f9;"> Independent troops (rod)</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_Strategic_Rocket_Forces_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1571" data-file-height="1867" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Rocket_Forces" title="Strategic Rocket Forces">Strategic Rocket Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1571" data-file-height="1867" /></a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Russian Airborne Forces</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#679267; color:#f9f9f9;"> Special operations 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style="background:#679267; color:#f9f9f9;"> Other troops</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Rear_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="715" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Logistical_Support_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces" title="Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces">Logistical Support</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#679267; color:#f9f9f9;"> Military districts</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Western_Military_District.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="423" data-file-height="509" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Leningrad_Military_District" title="Leningrad Military District">Leningrad Military District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Moscow_Military_District.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="411" data-file-height="487" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Military_District" title="Moscow Military District">Moscow Military District</a></li> <li><a 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history of Russia">Military history of Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Russian_military_ranks" title="History of Russian military ranks">History of Russian military ranks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_ranks_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Military ranks of the Soviet Union">Military ranks of the Soviet Union</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar 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It was formed in 1992 from units of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Airborne_Forces" title="Soviet Airborne Forces">Soviet Airborne Forces</a> that came under Russian control following the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a>. Troops of the Russian Airborne Forces have traditionally worn a <a href="/wiki/Blue_beret" title="Blue beret">blue beret</a> and blue-striped <a href="/wiki/Telnyashka" title="Telnyashka">telnyashka</a> undershirt and are called desant (Russian: Десант), from the French Descente.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> The Russian Airborne Forces utilizes a range of specialist airborne warfare vehicles and are fully mechanized. Traditionally they have had a larger complement of heavy weaponry than most contemporary airborne forces.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> After the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a>, the Russian Airborne Forces were officially established by a presidential decree on 7 May 1992. At this time only two of the seven VDV divisions were located on the territory of the <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian Federation</a>. An agreement was reached between Russia and the new governments of <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a> to move airborne units into Russia's new borders. During the 1990s the total strength of the Airborne Forces was reduced from about 80,000 in the late Soviet years to just 35,000.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> The forces were reduced from seven divisions to five, with the remaining ones being the 7th, 76th, 98th, 104th, and the 106th Guards Airborne. Out of these, the 104th was later disbanded, and the four existing divisions had their size reduced to only two regiments instead of three. A new unit was also formed, the 45th Separate Reconnaissance Regiment, which was subordinated to the GRU military intelligence for operations despite being part of the Airborne Forces. In 2006, the 7th and 76th were re-designated as air assault divisions, while the 98th and 106th remained as airborne divisions. The main difference was that the latter still had the ability to parachute troops into a location while the air assault divisions would simply be transported there by aircraft. The 7th Division was also designated as a "mountain" air assault division. The 31st Separate Air Assault Brigade had all of its artillery and armored vehicles removed, which made it more comparable to a Western airborne unit.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg/300px-Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg/450px-Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg/600px-Russian_paratroopers_at_Tuzla_Air_Base.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1268" data-file-height="1012" /></a><figcaption>Russian paratroopers at <a href="/wiki/Tuzla_Air_Base" title="Tuzla Air Base">Tuzla Air Base</a> in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1997 as members of the <a href="/wiki/Stabilization_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Stabilization Force">Stabilization Force</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG/300px-Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG" decoding="async" width="300" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG/450px-Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG/600px-Russian_paratroopers_106th_VDD.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="682" /></a><figcaption>Paratroopers of the <a href="/wiki/106th_Guards_Airborne_Division" title="106th Guards Airborne Division">106th Guards Airborne Division</a> in Kazakhstan in 1999.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg/300px-83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg/450px-83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg/600px-83AABAirborneExercise2017-23.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Paratroopers of the <a href="/wiki/83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade" title="83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade">83rd Airborne Brigade</a> preparing for jump drills in 2017.</figcaption></figure> The 11th Air Assault Brigade in the Central Military District (formerly the <a href="/wiki/Siberian_Military_District" title="Siberian Military District">Siberian Military District</a>) and the 56th Air Assault Brigade in the Southern Military District (formerly the <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus_Military_District" title="North Caucasus Military District">North Caucasus Military District</a>) were partially infantry formations reporting directly to the <a href="/wiki/Military_district" title="Military district">military districts</a> they are stationed in.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The VDV's training institute is the <a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School" title="Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School">Ryazan Institute for the Airborne Forces</a> named for General of the Army V.F. Margelov.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> In addition, in the mid-late 1990s, the former <a href="/wiki/345th_Independent_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment">345th Guards Airborne Regiment</a> was stationed in <a href="/wiki/Gudauta" title="Gudauta">Gudauta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a> AR, Georgia. It later became the 10th Independent Peacekeeping Airborne Regiment. The unit was further designated the 50th Military Base. In the early 1990s, General <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Grachev" title="Pavel Grachev">Pavel Grachev</a>, the first Russian Defence Minister, planned for the VDV to form the core of the planned Mobile Forces. This was announced in <a href="/wiki/Krasnaya_Zvezda" title="Krasnaya Zvezda">Krasnaya Zvezda</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Ministry_of_Defence" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Ministry of Defence">Ministry of Defence</a>'s daily newspaper, in July 1992. However, the Mobile Forces plan was never enacted. The number of formations available for the force was far less than anticipated, since much of the Airborne Forces had been 'nationalised' by the republics their units had been previously based in, and other arms of service, such as the GRU and <a href="/wiki/Military_Transport_Aviation" title="Military Transport Aviation">Military Transport Aviation</a>, who were to provide the airlift component, were adamantly opposed to ceding control of their forces.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> From 1996 the VDV dispatched the <a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Separate_Airborne_Brigade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Separate Airborne Brigade (page does not exist)">1st Airborne Brigade</a> to <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> as part of <a href="/wiki/Implementation_Force" title="Implementation Force">IFOR</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Multi-National_Division_(North)_(Bosnia)" title="Multi-National Division (North) (Bosnia)">Multi-National Division North</a>. The brigade, unusually, used <a href="/wiki/Russian_Ground_Forces" title="Russian Ground Forces">Russian Ground Forces</a> equipment such as <a href="/wiki/BTR-80" title="BTR-80">BTR-80s</a>. After an experimental period, the 104th Parachute Regiment of 76th Airborne Division became the first Russian Ground Forces regiment that was fully composed of professional soldiers (and not of srochniki – conscripted soldiers aged eighteen). It was announced that the 98th Airborne Division was also earmarked for contract manning, and by September 2006, it was confirmed that 95% of the units of the 98th Division had shifted to contract manning.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> With the reduction in forces after 1991, the 61st Air Army, Russia's military air transport force, has enough operational heavy transport aircraft to move one airborne division, manned at peacetime standards, in two-and-a-half lifts.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> The single independent brigade, the 31st at <a href="/wiki/Ulyanovsk" title="Ulyanovsk">Ulyanovsk</a>, however, is not equipped with its own armor or artillery and may be equivalent to Western airborne troops in that it functions as light infantry, on foot when reaching their destination. The 31st was the former 104th Guards Airborne Division. VDV troops participated in the rapid deployment of Russian forces stationed in Bosnian city <a href="/wiki/Ugljevik" title="Ugljevik">Ugljevik</a>, in and around <a href="/wiki/Pristina_International_Airport_Adem_Jashari" class="mw-redirect" title="Pristina International Airport Adem Jashari">Pristina Airport</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Kosovo_War" title="Kosovo War">Kosovo War</a>. <a href="/wiki/Incident_at_Pristina_airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Incident at Pristina airport">A confrontation</a> between elements of the 1st Separate Airborne Brigade and British lead element of the <a href="/wiki/Allied_Command_Europe_Rapid_Reaction_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps">Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps</a> (<a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>) took place over the airport on 12 June 1999, in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Kosovo_War" title="Kosovo War">Kosovo War</a>. VDV troops occupied the airport ahead of a NATO deployment, resulting in a tense stand-off, which was resolved peacefully. The VDV also took part in the invasion of <a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a>. Notable former Airborne Forces officers include <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lebed" title="Alexander Lebed">Aleksandr Lebed</a>, who was involved in responses to disorder in the Caucasus republics in the last years of the Soviet Union, and Pavel Grachev who went on to become the first <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Russia)" title="Ministry of Defence (Russia)">Minister of Defence</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian Federation</a>. On 26 May 2009 Lieutenant-General <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Shamanov" title="Vladimir Shamanov">Vladimir Anatolevich Shamanov</a> became the commander of the VDV, replacing Lieutenant-General Valeriy Yevtukhovich who was being discharged to the reserve. Shamanov had been decorated as a <a href="/wiki/Hero_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Hero of the Russian Federation">Hero of Russia</a> for his combat role in the campaigns in Chechnya. His previous posts were as chief of the combat training directorate and commander of the <a href="/wiki/58th_Combined_Arms_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="58th Combined Arms Army">58th Army</a>, and later chief of the main combat training directorate.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Shamanov and the acting commander of the <a href="/wiki/106th_Guards_Airborne_Division" title="106th Guards Airborne Division">106th Airborne Division</a> were severely injured in a car crash on 30 October 2010, with the driver being killed.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> On 28 January 2010, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the VDV's air components had been placed under the VVS.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Under the <a href="/wiki/2008_Russian_military_reform" title="2008 Russian military reform">2008 reform programme</a>, the four existing two-regiment divisions should have been transformed into 7–8 air-assault brigades. However, once General Shamanov became commander-in-chief of the Airborne Forces, it was decided to keep the original structure. The divisions were strengthened, becoming four independent airborne/air-assault brigades, one for each military district.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> The 332nd School for Praporshchiks of the VDV (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: 332 Школа прапорщиков ВДВ) in Moscow was disbanded in December 2009 (also under the 2008 reform programme, all <a href="/wiki/Praporshchik" title="Praporshchik">praporshchik</a> (WO) posts in the Russian Armed Forces were formally abolished). In October 2013 it was reported that the three airborne brigades under military district control (apparently the 11th and 83rd (Ulan-Ude and Ussuriysk) in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Military_District" title="Eastern Military District">Eastern Military District</a> and the 56th at <a href="/wiki/Kamyshin" title="Kamyshin">Kamyshin</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Military_District" title="Southern Military District">Southern Military District</a>) would be returned to VDV command.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> The process was completed by July 2015.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> In October 2013, Commander-in-Chief of the VDV <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Shamanov" title="Vladimir Shamanov">Vladimir Shamanov</a> announced that a new air assault brigade would be formed in <a href="/wiki/Voronezh" title="Voronezh">Voronezh</a> in 2016 with the number of the 345th Guards Airborne Regiment.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> The establishment of the brigade was postponed to 2017–18, according to a June 2015 announcement.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> It was announced in July 2015 that plans called for the 31st Airborne Brigade to be expanded into the 104th Guards Airborne Division by 2023,<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> and for an additional airborne regiment to be attached to each division.<a href="#cite_note-tass.ru-21">[21]</a> Elements of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division's <a href="/wiki/104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment" title="104th Guards Air Assault Regiment">104th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a> allegedly participated in the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Donbas (2014–2022)">war in Donbas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> These units allegedly were used as spearhead forces during the August 2014 DPR and LPR counteroffensive.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> During the August 2014 counteroffensive, battalion tactical groups of the 7th Guards Airborne Division's <a href="/wiki/247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment" title="247th Guards Air Assault Regiment">247th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a>, the 98th Guards Airborne Division's <a href="/wiki/331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="331st Guards Airborne Regiment">331st Guards Airborne Regiment</a>, the 106th Guards Airborne Division's <a href="/wiki/137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="137th Guards Airborne Regiment">137th Guards Airborne Regiment</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade" title="31st Guards Air Assault Brigade">31st Guards Air Assault Brigade</a> allegedly were sent into Ukraine. Reconnaissance teams from the <a href="/wiki/45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="45th Guards Spetznaz Brigade">45th Detached Reconnaissance Brigade</a> and the 106th's 173rd Guards Separate Reconnaissance Company were previously deployed to Ukraine alongside Ground Forces units.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> In February 2016, it was reported that an airborne battalion would be permanently deployed to <a href="/wiki/Dzhankoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Dzhankoy">Dzhankoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>, in 2017–18, and upgraded to a regiment in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In May 2017, Shamanov announced that the battalion would be formed at <a href="/wiki/Feodosia" title="Feodosia">Feodosiya</a> by 1 December 2017 as part of the <a href="/wiki/7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division" title="7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division">7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division</a>, and would be expanded into the 97th Air Assault Regiment with three battalions by late 2019.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Since the <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">2014 annexation</a>, the status of Crimea is <a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea" title="Political status of Crimea">under dispute between Russia and Ukraine</a>; Ukraine and the majority of the international community considers Crimea an integral part of Ukraine, while Russia considers Crimea to be an integral part of Russia.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> In August 2016, Russian paratroopers placed 1st place in the Airborne Platoon competition during the International Army Games in Russia, defeating teams from China, Iran, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> On 4 October 2016, Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Serdyukov" title="Andrey Serdyukov">Andrey Serdyukov</a> was appointed commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, replacing Shamanov, who became chief of the <a href="/wiki/Duma" title="Duma">Duma</a> Committee on Defense.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> During 2016, three reconnaissance battalions and six tank companies, and two companies of electronic warfare and unmanned aerial vehicles were formed. 188 new and upgraded armored vehicles were delivered, with the Russian Airborne Forces equipment level of modern weapons at 47%.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] From 2015 to 2016 five intelligence units and six tank units have been formed, over 3,000 new pieces of weaponry and special military equipment were supplied, the number of contract servicemen had grown by 1.5 times, while the troops' training intensity had risen by 20 percent.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The Russian Airborne Forces received over eleven thousand new and upgraded weapons in 2017. The share of modern armaments and hardware comprises 62 percent. In two years four battalion sets of 120 <a href="/wiki/BMD-4M" class="mw-redirect" title="BMD-4M">BMD-4M</a> and <a href="/wiki/BTR-MDM" class="mw-redirect" title="BTR-MDM">BTR-MDM</a> Rakushka vehicles were supplied. Besides that, the force received over 100 upgraded weapons, including <a href="/w/index.php?title=2S9-1M&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2S9-1M (page does not exist)">2S9-1M</a> self-propelled guns. From 2015 to 2017 the air defense units received close to 500 modern automated reconnaissance and command complexes, new <a href="/wiki/9K333_Verba" title="9K333 Verba">Verba</a> portable missiles, and over 30 upgraded <a href="/wiki/9K35_Strela-10" title="9K35 Strela-10">Strela-10MN</a> missile complexes.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On December 1, 2017, the organizational events to create a separate airborne assault battalion in Novorosiisk mountain division deployed in Feodosiya and a separate repairs and maintenance battalion in the Moscow region were completed. Contracted servicemen comprised over 70 percent of the troops. Barnaul-T R&D produced a planning module paradropped to airborne units to simultaneously track a hundred air objects, and a paradroppable reconnaissance and command module to detect targets in a 40-km range, deployable in five minutes.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] State tests of a new <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bakhcha-U-PDS&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bakhcha-U-PDS (page does not exist)">Bakhcha-U-PDS</a> parachute platform for the BMD-4M and BTR-MDM vehicles were completed in May 2018.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Deliveries of new 'heavy drop' systems PBS-950U and PBS-955 began in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-auto-31">[31]</a> In 2019, two battalion sets of BMD-4M airborne combat vehicles and BTR-MDM Rakushka armored personnel carriers, more than 200 units of various automotive equipment, including special armored vehicles, army snowmobiles, four-wheelers and buggies and more than 9,000 parachute systems D-10 and "Arbalet-2" were delivered to the troops.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In April 2020, military personnel from the Russian Airborne Forces, performed the world's first <a href="/wiki/High-altitude_military_parachuting" title="High-altitude military parachuting">HALO</a> <a href="/wiki/Paradrop" class="mw-redirect" title="Paradrop">paradrop</a> from the lower border of the <a href="/wiki/Arctic" title="Arctic">Arctic</a> <a href="/wiki/Stratosphere" title="Stratosphere">stratosphere</a>. The Russian commando group used "next-generation special-purpose parachute system", military-tested oxygen equipment, navigation devices, special equipment, and uniforms. This was the first high-altitude landing in the Arctic latitudes over 10 km in the history of Russian aviation.<a href="#cite_note-armstrade1-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-functionmil-34">[34]</a> As part of its mission in the Arctic region, the aircrew provided landing of airborne units from altitudes of between 10 and 1.8 kilometres, as well as landing of cargo with a total weight of about 18 tons. After conducting practical combat training, the <a href="/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-76" title="Ilyushin Il-76">Il-76</a> aircrews landed at the <a href="/wiki/Nagurskoye_(air_base)" title="Nagurskoye (air base)">Nagurskoe</a> airfield in the northern part of the island of <a href="/wiki/Franz_Josef_Land" title="Franz Josef Land">Franz Josef Land</a>. The high-altitude landing was dedicated to the <a href="/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)" title="Victory Day (9 May)">75th anniversary</a> of victory in the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Great Patriotic war of 1941–1945</a>, and the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Airborne troops.<a href="#cite_note-armstrade1-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-functionmil-34">[34]</a> In 2020, the VDV continued to modernize and re-equip its command posts, started to receive the Stayer high-altitude parachute system which enable airdrops from up to 10 km altitude, and completed receiving special-purpose controllable parachute systems.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Two air assault regiments were set up in Pskov and Crimea as part of air assault divisions in 2021. The Russian Defense Ministry also accepted the Zavet-D artillery fire control vehicle for the Airborne Forces.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> In 2021-2022, the Airborne Forces received about 30,000 sets of landing equipment and parachute systems.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Shoigu" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergey Shoigu">Sergey Shoigu</a> claimed in September 2023 that VDV have received more than 2,000 hardware units and 5,500 landing means and also a new airborne regiment formed since the beginning of the year.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> The Russian Ministry of Defense said on 1 January 2024 that the VDV received during the past year over 2,500 units of weapons, military and special equipment, including more than 780 samples of "newest and contemporary ones". Among the newest samples were <a href="/wiki/T-90" title="T-90">T-90</a>M tanks and <a href="/wiki/BMD-4" title="BMD-4">BMD-4</a>M IFVs as well as BTR-MDM "Rakushka" and BTR-82A APCs.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> It was also reported on 3 January that 20 military units were created in 2023, including the Ulyanovsk air assault division.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> About 16,000 landing means were also reportedly delivered<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> and 1,000 more in the first quarter of 2024.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Russian invasion of Ukraine">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png/220px-%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png/330px-%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png/440px-%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B_003.png 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1440" /></a><figcaption>VDV Airborne troops at <a href="/wiki/Hostomel_Airport" title="Hostomel Airport">Hostomel Airport</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport" title="Battle of Antonov Airport">Battle of Antonov Airport</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Russian_VDV_trying_to_shoot_down_Ukrainian_drone_with_anti-drone_gun_and_small_arms_fire_-_Ukraine%2C_February_2023.webm/220px--Russian_VDV_trying_to_shoot_down_Ukrainian_drone_with_anti-drone_gun_and_small_arms_fire_-_Ukraine%2C_February_2023.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="47" data-mwtitle="Russian_VDV_trying_to_shoot_down_Ukrainian_drone_with_anti-drone_gun_and_small_arms_fire_-_Ukraine,_February_2023.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Russian_VDV_trying_to_shoot_down_Ukrainian_drone_with_anti-drone_gun_and_small_arms_fire_-_Ukraine,_February_2023.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/Russian_VDV_trying_to_shoot_down_Ukrainian_drone_with_anti-drone_gun_and_small_arms_fire_-_Ukraine%2C_February_2023.webm/Russian_VDV_trying_to_shoot_down_Ukrainian_drone_with_anti-drone_gun_and_small_arms_fire_-_Ukraine%2C_February_2023.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; 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In the opening hours of the invasion the VDV attempted to secure key airports and support assaults around Ukraine. These paratroopers were recognizable by the <a href="/wiki/Ribbon_of_Saint_George" title="Ribbon of Saint George">orange-and-black Saint George ribbons</a> decorating their helmets and arms.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> The VDV attempted to paradrop and transport troops with <a href="/wiki/Mi-8" class="mw-redirect" title="Mi-8">Mi-8</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mi-17" class="mw-redirect" title="Mi-17">Mi-17</a> helicopters and take the <a href="/wiki/Hostomel_Airport" title="Hostomel Airport">Hostomel Airport</a> in northern <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, in order to use the airport to <a href="/wiki/Airlift" title="Airlift">airlift</a> more troops and heavy equipment to take Kyiv as a form of forward "air bridge"<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> that would enable rapid deployment of Russian forces far in advance of the Russian land front, in an action that became known as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport" title="Battle of Antonov Airport">Battle of Antonov Airport</a>. The VDV troops at the airport then engaged the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian National Guard">Ukrainian National Guard's</a> <a href="/wiki/4th_Rapid_Reaction_Brigade_(Ukraine)" class="mw-redirect" title="4th Rapid Reaction Brigade (Ukraine)">4th Rapid Reaction Brigade</a>, which with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Air_Force" title="Ukrainian Air Force">Ukrainian Air Force</a> encircled the unsupported VDV troops and recaptured the airport, with the Russians escaping to nearby woods.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> The next day battle resumed, and the VDV again attempted to land troops at the airport. Deploying around 200 helicopters and with support from the Ground Forces arriving from the north (Belarus and <a href="/wiki/Chernobyl" title="Chernobyl">Chernobyl</a>), they finally broke through the Ukrainian defenses and established Russian control over the airport. In the end, however, the Ukrainians claimed that the airport became too damaged from the battle to be used as an airstrip.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> 40 kilometers south of Kyiv in <a href="/wiki/Vasylkiv" title="Vasylkiv">Vasylkiv</a>, VDV paratroopers also dropped in an attempt to secure the <a href="/wiki/Vasylkiv_Air_Base" title="Vasylkiv Air Base">Vasylkiv Air Base</a>. Without any support from air or ground forces, the VDV troops in Vasylkiv were eventually encircled and were unsuccessful in achieving their objectives, giving victory in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vasylkiv" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Vasylkiv">Battle of Vasylkiv</a> to the Ukrainians.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> On February 27, VDV troops with <a href="/wiki/BMD-2" title="BMD-2">BMD-2s</a> and <a href="/wiki/BTR-D" title="BTR-D">BTR-Ds</a> were seen advancing south of Hostomel in <a href="/wiki/Bucha,_Ukraine" title="Bucha, Ukraine">Bucha</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> The VDV and Ground Forces' units were hit on the same day by <a href="/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_TB2" class="mw-redirect" title="Baykar Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar</a> air strikes. The Ukrainian government claimed that "more than 100 units of enemy equipment were destroyed”.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> On the following weeks the VDV served as <a href="/wiki/Mechanized_infantry" title="Mechanized infantry">mechanized infantry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Light_infantry" title="Light infantry">light infantry</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Kyiv_offensive_(2022)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv offensive (2022)">Kyiv offensive</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-55">[55]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kharkiv_(2022)" title="Battle of Kharkiv (2022)">Battle of Kharkiv</a>, VDV paratroopers landed in Kharkiv on March 2 in an attempt to capture the contested city.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> They attempted a raid on a local <a href="/wiki/Military_hospital" title="Military hospital">military hospital</a> but were repelled by local Ukrainian forces.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> According to the UK Ministry of Defence in June 2023, Russia was redeploying regular military units to the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bakhmut" title="Battle of Bakhmut">Bakhmut sector</a> following withdrawal of <a href="/wiki/Wagner_Group" title="Wagner Group">Wagner forces</a>. These included elements of the 76th and 106th VDV divisions and two additional brigades. The MoD added that the VDV was much degraded from its pre-invasion "elite" status.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Analysis_of_losses">Analysis of losses</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Analysis of losses">edit</a>]</div> On 3 March 2022, it was reported that <a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">Major General</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Sukhovetsky" title="Andrei Sukhovetsky">Andrei Sukhovetsky</a> of the VDV's 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division, who was the appointed deputy commander of the <a href="/wiki/41st_Combined_Arms_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="41st Combined Arms Army">41st Combined Arms Army</a>, was <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">killed in action</a> in Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-:2-59">[59]</a> His death is attributed to <a href="/wiki/Sniper" title="Sniper">sniper</a> fire either near <a href="/wiki/Mariupol" title="Mariupol">Mariupol</a> (which was <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol" title="Siege of Mariupol">besieged by Russian forces</a>)<a href="#cite_note-Indy-60">[60]</a> or <a href="/wiki/Hostomel" title="Hostomel">Hostomel</a> during the Kyiv offensive.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Ukrainian sources said he was killed on 2 March and his death was first confirmed on <a href="/wiki/VKontakte" class="mw-redirect" title="VKontakte">VKontakte</a> by "Combat Brotherhood", a Russian veterans group,<a href="#cite_note-:2-59">[59]</a> and later by <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Indy-60">[60]</a> The VDV suffered similar losses in Bucha and Irpin with poor command and control being cited.<a href="#cite_note-:4-55">[55]</a> The VDV also joined the assault on the city of <a href="/wiki/Mykolaiv" title="Mykolaiv">Mykolaiv</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mykolaiv" title="Battle of Mykolaiv">Battle of Mykolaiv</a>, but were pushed back by a Ukrainian counter-offensive.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> On 18 March it was reported that Colonel Sergei Sukharev along with deputy Major Sergei Krylov of the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment had been killed during fighting in Mariupol.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> In late April, <a href="/wiki/Bellingcat" title="Bellingcat">Bellingcat</a> journalist <a href="/wiki/Christo_Grozev" title="Christo Grozev">Christo Grozev</a> claimed that he "personally checked" and that Russia had lost "almost 90% of its best paratroopers" in the first echelon of the invasion.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Many helicopters were shot down by Ukrainian defenses, and the paratroopers were stranded without armored vehicles or air support.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> In early May, the UK MoD stated that the VDV units and other elite forces had suffered high losses and that it would "probably take years for Russia to reconstitute these forces."<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> On 19 June 2022, it was reported by <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesa</a> military-civilian spokesperson <a href="/w/index.php?title=Serhiy_Bratchuk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Serhiy Bratchuk (page does not exist)">Serhiy Bratchuk</a><a href="#cite_note-htyt-67">[67]</a> that Putin had sacked Serdyukov for his doomed bid to <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hostomel" title="Battle of Hostomel">take Hostomel airfield</a>, which few of the invading soldiers survived.<a href="#cite_note-posspur-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-htyt-67">[67]</a> This was confirmed by Russian media reports.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> He was replaced by Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Teplinsky" title="Mikhail Teplinsky">Mikhail Teplinsky</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/BBC_News_Russian" title="BBC News Russian">BBC News Russian</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mediazona" title="Mediazona">Mediazona</a> news website, 1,937 VDV deaths had been documented by the end of August 2023, which included 340 officers, accounting for 6% of the 31,665 Russian fatalities who had been identified by name, and 8% of those who could identified by both name and service branch.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)">UK intelligence</a> estimate that around 30,000 paratroop forces were deployed to Ukraine in 2022 and that 50% of those have been killed or wounded by summer 2023. A Russian General in August 2023 stated that 3,500 wounded paratroopers had refused to leave the front for treatment and 5,000 had returned to the front after treatment.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> As of 21 December 2023 at least 248 BMD-2, 101 BMD-4M, 83 BTR-D and 11 unknown BTR-D/BMD-2 have been lost in the invasion.<a href="#cite_note-Oryx-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Creation_of_new_VDV_forces">Creation of new VDV forces</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Creation of new VDV forces">edit</a>]</div> After the invasion it was announced that the Airborne Forces would create two new divisions. Teplinsky announced on August 2, 2023 that the VDV is expanding the 31st Air Assault Brigade into the <a href="/wiki/104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="104th Guards Air Assault Division">104th Guards Air Assault Division</a>. The 299th and 119th Parachute-Landing Regiments were also reestablished, expanding two other divisions from two to three regiments.<a href="#cite_note-Expansion-73">[73]</a> Also reported was the creation of a new Airborne Forces artillery brigade and the 44th Air Assault Division, created on the basis of the 111th and 387th Motor Rifle Regiments of the <a href="/wiki/1st_Army_Corps_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Army Corps (Russia)">1st Donetsk Army Corps</a> of the turncoat <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk People's Republic</a>. The 44th Air Assault Division recalls the number of the Soviet-era <a href="/wiki/44th_Training_Airborne_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="44th Training Airborne Division">44th Training Airborne Division</a>. But formed from newly-formed motor rifle regiments, it would not be anything like the quality of existing Air Assault formations. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structure">Structure</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Structure">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Banner_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Banner_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.png" decoding="async" width="197" height="243" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="197" data-file-height="243" /></a><figcaption>Banner of the Airborne Forces Commander-in-Chief.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Command_personnel">Command personnel</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Command personnel">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Commander Air Landing Forces – Colonel-General</li> <li>Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the Air Landing Forces – Lieutenant-General</li> <li>Deputy Commander of the Air Landing Forces – Major-General</li> <li>Deputy Commander of the Air Landing Forces for Peacekeeping Operations and <a href="/wiki/Collective_Rapid_Reaction_Force" title="Collective Rapid Reaction Force">Collective Rapid Reaction Forces</a> – Major-General</li> <li>Chief of Air Landing Training and Deputy Commander of the Air Landing Forces for Air Landing Training – Major-General</li> <li>Chief of Combat Training and Deputy Commander of the Air Landing Forces – Major-General</li> <li>Deputy Commander of the Air Landing Forces for Educational Work – Colonel</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organization">Organization</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Organization">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russian_Airborne_Forces.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Russian_Airborne_Forces.png/640px-Russian_Airborne_Forces.png" decoding="async" width="640" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Russian_Airborne_Forces.png/960px-Russian_Airborne_Forces.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Russian_Airborne_Forces.png/1280px-Russian_Airborne_Forces.png 2x" data-file-width="2971" data-file-height="1421" /></a><figcaption>The structure of the Russian Airborne Forces</figcaption></figure> The Air Landing Forces combine Parachute Landing (парашютно-десантние) and Landing Assault (десантно-штурмовие) units. The difference between the two is that while both were airborne qualified and mechanised with BMD, BTR-D, <a href="/wiki/2S9_Nona" title="2S9 Nona">2S9 Nona</a>, the parachute landing units are lighter (only quarter mechanised) and play the role of entry element, while landing assault units were fully mechanised and were intended to develop the breach opened by the parachute landing forces.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victory_Day_Parade_2008-9.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Victory_Day_Parade_2008-9.jpg/300px-Victory_Day_Parade_2008-9.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Victory_Day_Parade_2008-9.jpg/450px-Victory_Day_Parade_2008-9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Victory_Day_Parade_2008-9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="334" /></a><figcaption>Paratroopers at the <a href="/wiki/2008_Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade" title="2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade">2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg/300px-VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg/450px-VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg/600px-VDV_Day_90th_anniversary_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="749" /></a><figcaption>Airborne Forces commander <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Serdyukov" title="Andrey Serdyukov">Andrey Serdyukov</a> in front of <a href="/wiki/Spasskaya_Bashnya" class="mw-redirect" title="Spasskaya Bashnya">Spasskaya Bashnya</a> on <a href="/wiki/Paratroopers%27_Day" title="Paratroopers' Day">Paratroopers' Day</a> in 2020</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg/300px-AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg/450px-AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg/600px-AirborneExerciseInBrest2018-68.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Russian paratroopers with the Belarusian <a href="/wiki/38th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="38th Guards Air Assault Brigade">38th Guards Air Assault Brigade</a> in 2018. They maintain a close working relationship.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg/300px-The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg/450px-The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg/600px-The_Airborne_Troops_presented_a_unique_concert_program_at_the_Spasskaya_Tower_festival_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>The combined band</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"> <tbody><tr align="center"> <th colspan="10" style="width: 350px;">Composition of the Russian Airborne Forces 2024 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_command_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="6685" data-file-height="8359" /></a> </td> <td>Airborne Forces Command </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> </td> <td>Commander Col. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Teplinsky" title="Mikhail Teplinsky">Mikhail Teplinsky</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png/25px-38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png/38px-38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png/50px-38%D0%9E%D0%9F%D0%A1.png 2x" data-file-width="120" data-file-height="147" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/38th_Guards_Communications_Brigade" title="38th Guards Communications Brigade">38th Guards Command and Control Brigade</a> </td> <td>54164 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shchyolkovsky_District" title="Shchyolkovsky District">Shchyolkovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Oblast" title="Moscow Oblast">Moscow Oblast</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>150th Repair and Overhaul Battalion </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orekhovo-Zuyevo" title="Orekhovo-Zuyevo">Orekhovo-Zuyevo</a>, Moscow Oblast </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="478" data-file-height="544" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Guards_Higher_Airborne_Command_School" title="Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School">Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ryazan" title="Ryazan">Ryazan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Oblast" title="Ryazan Oblast">Ryazan Oblast</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Ulyanovsk_Guards_Suvorov_Military_School.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="429" data-file-height="529" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Suvorov_Military_School" title="Suvorov Military School">Ulyanovsk Guards Suvorov Military School</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ulyanovsk" title="Ulyanovsk">Ulyanovsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ulyanovsk_Oblast" title="Ulyanovsk Oblast">Ulyanovsk Oblast</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_242nd_Training_Centre.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Great_emblem_of_the_Omsk_Cadet_Corps.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_Omsk_Cadet_Corps.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Great_emblem_of_the_Omsk_Cadet_Corps.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_Omsk_Cadet_Corps.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Great_emblem_of_the_Omsk_Cadet_Corps.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_Omsk_Cadet_Corps.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="429" data-file-height="529" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cadet_Corps_(Russia)" title="Cadet Corps (Russia)">Omsk Cadet Corps</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>Omsk, Omsk Oblast </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>309th Center for Specialized Parachute Training<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="730" data-file-height="909" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="902" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="631" data-file-height="769" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="876" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png/25px-1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png/38px-1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png/50px-1141st_Artillery_Regiment.png 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="533" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division" title="7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division">7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="56th Guards Air Assault Brigade">56th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/108th_Guards_Kuban_Cossack_Air_Assault_Regiment" title="108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment">108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/247th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment" title="247th Guards Air Assault Regiment">247th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1141st_Guards_Artillery_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1141st Guards Artillery Regiment (page does not exist)">1141st Guards Artillery Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Guards_Anti-Aircraft_Missile_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (page does not exist)">3rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment</a></li></ul> </td> <td>61756 <ul><li>unknown</li> <li>42091</li> <li>54801</li> <li>40515</li> <li>94021</li></ul> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Novorossiysk" title="Novorossiysk">Novorossiysk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krasnodar_Krai" title="Krasnodar Krai">Krasnodar Krai</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Feodosia" title="Feodosia">Feodosia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a></li> <li>Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a>, Krasnodar Krai</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anapa" title="Anapa">Anapa</a>, Krasnodar Krai</li> <li>Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai</li></ul> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Air_Assault_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="44th Air Assault Division (page does not exist)">44th Air Assault Division</a><a href="#cite_note-Critical-78">[78]</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=111th_Motorized_Rifle_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="111th Motorized Rifle Regiment (page does not exist)">111th Motorized Rifle Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/387th_Motorized_Rifle_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="387th Motorized Rifle Regiment">387th Motorized Rifle Regiment</a></li></ul> </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Zaparozhye Oblast</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="711" data-file-height="891" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="767" data-file-height="935" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_234th_Guards_Airborne_Assault_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="876" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:237th_air_assault_regiment.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/237th_air_assault_regiment.png/25px-237th_air_assault_regiment.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/237th_air_assault_regiment.png/38px-237th_air_assault_regiment.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/237th_air_assault_regiment.png/50px-237th_air_assault_regiment.png 2x" data-file-width="143" data-file-height="147" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="624" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/76th_Guards_Air_Assault_Division" title="76th Guards Air Assault Division">76th Guards Air Assault Division</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/104th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment" title="104th Guards Air Assault Regiment">104th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/234th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment" title="234th Guards Air Assault Regiment">234th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=237th_Guards_Air_Assault_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="237th Guards Air Assault Regiment (page does not exist)">237th Guards Air Assault Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1140th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1140th Guards Artillery Regiment (page does not exist)">1140th Guards Artillery Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Guards_Anti-Aircraft_Missile_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (page does not exist)">4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment</a></li></ul> </td> <td>07264 <ul><li>32515</li> <li>74268</li> <li>12865</li> <li>45377</li> <li>unknown</li></ul> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pskov" title="Pskov">Pskov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov Oblast</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cheryokha" title="Cheryokha">Cheryokha</a>, Pskov Oblast</li> <li>Pskov, Pskov Oblast</li> <li>Pskov, Pskov Oblast</li> <li>Pskov, Pskov Oblast</li> <li>unknown</li></ul> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_98th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="900" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_217th_Guards_Parachute_Landing_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="294" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="649" data-file-height="790" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:1065_AP_VSRF_3.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1065_AP_VSRF_3.png/25px-1065_AP_VSRF_3.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1065_AP_VSRF_3.png/38px-1065_AP_VSRF_3.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1065_AP_VSRF_3.png/50px-1065_AP_VSRF_3.png 2x" data-file-width="661" data-file-height="661" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/98th_Guards_Airborne_Division" title="98th Guards Airborne Division">98th Guards Airborne Division</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/217th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="217th Guards Airborne Regiment">217th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=299th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="299th Guards Airborne Regiment (page does not exist)">299th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/331st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="331st Guards Airborne Regiment">331st Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1065th_Guards_Artillery_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1065th Guards Artillery Regiment (page does not exist)">1065th Guards Artillery Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=5th_Guards_Anti-Aircraft_Missile_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (page does not exist)">5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment</a></li></ul> </td> <td>65451 <ul><li>62295</li> <li>unknown</li> <li>71211</li> <li>62297</li> <li>unknown</li></ul> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ivanovo" title="Ivanovo">Ivanovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivanovo_Oblast" title="Ivanovo Oblast">Ivanovo Oblast</a> <ul><li>Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast</li> <li>unknown</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kostroma" title="Kostroma">Kostroma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kostroma_Oblast" title="Kostroma Oblast">Kostroma Oblast</a></li> <li>Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast</li> <li>Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast</li></ul> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="6685" data-file-height="8359" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/104th_Guards_Airborne_Division" title="104th Guards Airborne Division">104th Guards Airborne Division</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=328th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="328th Guards Airborne Regiment (page does not exist)">328th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=337th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="337th Guards Airborne Regiment (page does not exist)">337th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=345th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="345th Guards Airborne Regiment (page does not exist)">345th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li></ul> </td> <td> </td> <td>Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_106th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Great_emblem_of_the_106th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_106th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Great_emblem_of_the_106th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_106th_Guards_Airborne_Division.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/File:Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg/25px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg/38px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg/50px-Sleeve_patch_of_the_137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="876" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png/25px-1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png/38px-1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png/50px-1182nd_Artillery_Regiment.png 2x" data-file-width="963" data-file-height="1165" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/106th_Guards_Airborne_Division" title="106th Guards Airborne Division">106th Guards Airborne Division</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=51st_Guards_Airborne_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="51st Guards Airborne Regiment (page does not exist)">51st Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=119th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="119th Guards Airborne Regiment (page does not exist)">119th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="137th Guards Airborne Regiment">137th Guards Airborne Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1182nd_Guards_Artillery_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1182nd Guards Artillery Regiment (page does not exist)">1182nd Guards Artillery Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Guards_Anti-Aircraft_Missile_Regiment&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (page does not exist)">1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment</a></li></ul> </td> <td>55599 <ul><li>33842</li> <li>unknown</li> <li>41450</li> <li>93723</li> <li>71298</li></ul> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tula,_Russia" title="Tula, Russia">Tula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tula_Oblast" title="Tula Oblast">Tula Oblast</a> <ul><li>Tula, Tula Oblast</li> <li>unknown</li> <li>Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naro-Fominsk" title="Naro-Fominsk">Naro-Fominsk</a>, Moscow Oblast</li> <li>Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast</li></ul> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_11th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="902" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/11th_Guards_Airborne_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="11th Guards Airborne Brigade">11th Guards Airborne Brigade</a> </td> <td>32364 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ulan-Ude" title="Ulan-Ude">Ulan-Ude</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buryatia" title="Buryatia">Buryatia</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_45th_Guards_Spetznaz_Brigade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="775" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/45th_Guards_Spetsnaz_Brigade" title="45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade">45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade</a> </td> <td>28337 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kubinka" title="Kubinka">Kubinka</a>, Moscow Oblast </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=49th_Separate_Air_Assault_Brigade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="49th Separate Air Assault Brigade (page does not exist)">49th Separate Air Assault Brigade</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=52nd_Artillery_Brigade_(Russia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="52nd Artillery Brigade (Russia) (page does not exist)">52nd Artillery Brigade</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/25px-Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/38px-Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg/50px-Great_emblem_of_the_83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="690" data-file-height="863" /></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/83rd_Guards_Airborne_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="83rd Guards Airborne Brigade">83rd Guards Airborne Brigade</a> </td> <td>71289 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ussuriysk" title="Ussuriysk">Ussuriysk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Primorsky_Krai" title="Primorsky Krai">Primorsky Krai</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Armament_and_equipment">Armament and equipment</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Armament and equipment">edit</a>]</div> Personal firearms and crew served weapons include:[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AK-74" title="AK-74">AK-74</a>M (including upgraded variants with the KM-AK Obves modernization kit)<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> and <a href="/wiki/AK-74" title="AK-74">AKS-74</a> assault rifles, and AKS-74U special purpose and self-defence carbine (5.45×39mm)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/AK-12" title="AK-12">AK-12</a> assault rifles (5.45×39mm)<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RPK" title="RPK">RPK-74</a>, light weight machinegun (5.45×39mm), now largely withdrawn from service and replaced by the PKM/PKP</li> <li><a href="/wiki/PK_machine_gun" title="PK machine gun">PKM</a>, general purpose machinegun (7.62×54mmR)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/PKP_Pecheneg_machine_gun" title="PKP Pecheneg machine gun">6P41 "Pecheneg"</a> (PKP) general purpose machine gun (7.62×54mmR), currently replacing the PKM as the general purpose machine gun throughout the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces" title="Russian Armed Forces">Russian Armed Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragunov_sniper_rifle" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragunov sniper rifle">Dragunov SVD</a>S, sniper rifle (7.62×54mmR)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragunov_SVU" title="Dragunov SVU">Dragunov SVU</a>, modified SVD in bullpup configuration and its variants are in limited use</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SV-98" title="SV-98">SV-98</a>, main sniper rifle (7.62×54mmR)<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KSVK_12.7" title="KSVK 12.7">ASVK-M Kord-M</a> anti-materiel sniper rifle (12.7×108mm)<a href="#cite_note-auto-31">[31]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VSS_Vintorez" class="mw-redirect" title="VSS Vintorez">VSS Vintorez</a>, silenced sniper rifle (9×39mm)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS_Val" class="mw-redirect" title="AS Val">AS Val</a> special assault rifle<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MP-443_Grach" title="MP-443 Grach">MP-443 Grach</a>, semi-automatic pistol (9×19mm Parabellum)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makarov_pistol" title="Makarov pistol">Makarov</a>, semi-automatic pistol (9×18mm Mak) & <a href="/wiki/Glock" title="Glock">Glock 17</a>, semi-automatic pistol (9x19 Parabellum)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GP-25" title="GP-25">GP-25</a>, <a href="/wiki/GP-25" title="GP-25">GP-30</a> and GP-34, under-barrel 40 mm grenade launchers for fragmentation and gas grenades</li> <li><a href="/wiki/AGS-17" title="AGS-17">AGS-17</a> Plamya (Flame), 30 mm automatic grenade launcher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RPO-A_Shmel" title="RPO-A Shmel">RPO-A Shmel</a> (Bumblebee), infantry rocket flamethrower, currently replacing the older <a href="/wiki/RPO_Rys" title="RPO Rys">RPO Rys</a> (Lynx)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RPG-7" title="RPG-7">RPG-7</a>D anti-tank rocket launcher, or more modern systems such as the <a href="/wiki/RPG-22" title="RPG-22">RPG-22</a> and <a href="/wiki/RPG-26" title="RPG-26">RPG-26</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2B14_Podnos" title="2B14 Podnos">2B14 Podnos</a> 82 mm mortar or the 120 mm <a href="/wiki/2S12_Sani" title="2S12 Sani">2S12 Sani</a> on UAZ vehicles</li> <li><a href="/wiki/9K38_Igla" title="9K38 Igla">9K38 Igla</a> man-portable SAM system, or the more modern 9K338 Igla-S</li> <li><a href="/wiki/9K333_Verba" title="9K333 Verba">9K333 Verba</a> man-portable SAM system, currently entering service<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9K111_Fagot" title="9K111 Fagot">9K111 Fagot</a>,<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> <a href="/wiki/9K115_Metis" title="9K115 Metis">9K115 Metis</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] and <a href="/wiki/9M133_Kornet" title="9M133 Kornet">9M133 Kornet</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> man-portable anti-tank systems</li> <li>MTS-566 sniper rifle<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a></li></ul> The VDV are fully equipped with Barmitsa and <a href="/wiki/Ratnik_(program)" title="Ratnik (program)">Ratnik</a> infantry combat suits as of 2018.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> Andromeda-D, Barnaul-T and Dozor automated control systems, AS-1 snowmobiles, four wheelers, a specially-created uniform for hot climates and Nanuk Arctic gear, reconnaissance-control and planning modules and the REX-1 counter-unmanned aerial vehicle rifle-like, man-portable jammer developed by Kalashnikov Group subsidiary ZALA Aero Group are also being introduced into service.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-auto-31">[31]</a> Portable versions of the Garmony air defence radar, modernized reconnaissance and artillery fire control posts and Aistyonok and Sobolyatnik radars are being supplied to the VDV.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> The Russian Airborne Forces have also received new special-purpose controlled wing-type parachutes.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> VDV servicemen performing tasks in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> received VKPO 3.0 all-season field uniform kits in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> The automatic cargo parachute system Junker-DG-250 passed acceptance trials and began to be supplied in November 2023.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> VDV also reportedly use the Lesochek EW system.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armoured_vehicles">Armoured vehicles</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Armoured vehicles">edit</a>]</div> There are over 1,800 armored fighting vehicles, mostly <a href="/wiki/BMD-1" title="BMD-1">BMD-1</a> (since 1969), of which all but around 100 are in storage,<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">failed verification</a>] and at least several hundred BMD-2 (since 1985). There are over 100 <a href="/wiki/BMD-3" title="BMD-3">BMD-3</a> (1990) that were partially upgraded to <a href="/wiki/BMD-4" title="BMD-4">BMD-4</a> level. All of them are amphibious, moving at around 10 km/h in water. The BMD-4 is capable of full, continuous fire while in deep water, unlike any other vehicle with such heavy weaponry (100 mm gun and 30 mm auto cannon). However, some units (such as those who served on peacekeeping duties in the Balkans) are known to have used BTR armored personnel carriers rather than BMD's. T-72B3 tanks supplied to the Russian Airborne Forces in 2018 have been upgraded and are equipped with Andromeda automatic control system and some of them with top-attack defence screens.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> As of 2021, the Russian Airborne Forces have 150 T-72B3 and 10 T-72B3 mod. 2016. <a href="/wiki/T-90" title="T-90">T-90</a>M tanks are also attached to VDV units as of August 2023.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> There is a turret-less variant of the BMD-1, the BTR-D, which is used as troop carrier and serves as the basis for specialised versions such as anti-tank, command and signals. The BTR-D will be partially replaced by the new multi-purpose APC BTR-MD "Rakushka" that will also come in several different versions. Approximately 280 vehicles in all BTR-D configurations are in service.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> As part of the 2011 state defence order (GOZ), 10 BMD-4M and 10 "Rakushka's" have been ordered, but according to the VDV's CinC General Colonel Shamanov, Kurganmashzavod did not give a guarantee it would produce them.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> The Russian Defense Ministry adopted the BMD-4M in April 2016.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> The first production batch of the new armored vehicles BMD-4M and BTR-MDM "Shell" in the amount of 24 units (12 each) transferred to the Russian Airborne Forces in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> The VDV equipped the first regiment with BMD-4Ms and BTR-MDMs in 2016.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 2017, they received two battalion sets of BMD-4M combat airborne vehicles and BTR-MDM APCs, over 80 Rys’ and UAZ Pickup armored automobiles.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Army2016demo-016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Army2016demo-016.jpg/220px-Army2016demo-016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Army2016demo-016.jpg/330px-Army2016demo-016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Army2016demo-016.jpg/440px-Army2016demo-016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2250" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/BMD-4" title="BMD-4">BMD-4</a>M</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Army2016demo-019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Army2016demo-019.jpg/220px-Army2016demo-019.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Army2016demo-019.jpg/330px-Army2016demo-019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Army2016demo-019.jpg/440px-Army2016demo-019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2250" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/BTR-MDM" class="mw-redirect" title="BTR-MDM">BTR-MDM</a> "Shell"</figcaption></figure> Russian airborne brigade-level units have received <a href="/wiki/Tigr_(Russian_military_vehicle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tigr (Russian military vehicle)">SPM-2 GAZ-233036 Tigr</a> armored cars. They have ordered <a href="/wiki/Kamaz_Typhoon" title="Kamaz Typhoon">Kamaz Typhoon</a> armored infantry transports, following modifications to meet the demands of the airborne troops and accepted them for supply in August 2021. The Russian Airborne Forces have received about 100 Tigr and Rys special armored vehicles, 200 Snegohod A-1 snow-going and AM-1 all-terrain vehicles, UAZ Patriot light motor vehicles, Toros 4x4 armored vehicles and Kamaz trucks that can be air-dropped.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> The VDV currently receives Berkyt protected snowmobiles for personnel transportation and fire support in arctic conditions.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Infauna and Leer-2 EW systems alongside Aileron-3SV UAVs and P-230T command vehicles are also received.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> The RKhM-6 chemical reconnaissance vehicle based on the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier, the BTR-D airborne assault armored personnel carrier with a ZU-23 anti-aircraft gun and the R-149MA1 and the R-142DA command and staff vehicles were demonstrated in August 2021.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> The Sarmat-2 light tactical buggy participated in the Zapad-2021 drill.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> On 1 August 2013, it was reported that the Russian Airborne Forces will develop a hybrid combat vehicle that combines features of an airborne infantry fighting vehicle and a helicopter. To meet the demands of future armed conflicts, a combat module that combines a light combat vehicle and an attack helicopter is being considered, with a crew of three-four people. The vehicle will be developed for the VDV by 2030.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artillery">Artillery</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Artillery">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg/220px-125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg/330px-125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg/440px-125-mm_self-proppeled_antitank_gun_%22Sprut-SD%22_during_the_%22Armiya_2021%22_exhibition.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>"Sprut-SD" tank/howitzer for <a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">airborne forces</a> (equipped with parachutes)</figcaption></figure> The airborne self-propelled artillery guns <a href="/wiki/ASU-57" title="ASU-57">ASU-57</a> and <a href="/wiki/ASU-85" title="ASU-85">ASU-85</a> have been withdrawn. They had light armour and limited anti-tank capability, but provided invaluable fire support for paratroopers behind enemy lines (the caliber of the gun in mm is the number next to the ASU designation). Also withdrawn were the multiple rocket launch systems <a href="/wiki/BM-14" title="BM-14">RPU-14</a> (8U38) of 140 mm and the <a href="/wiki/BM-21_Grad" title="BM-21 Grad">BM-21V "Grad-V" (9P125)</a> of 122 mm on GAZ-66, as well as the 85 mm gun <a href="/wiki/85_mm_divisional_gun_D-44" title="85 mm divisional gun D-44">SD-44</a>. Today the VDV operates the following systems: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2S9_Nona" title="2S9 Nona">2S9 Nona</a> and modernized 2S9M<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> 120 mm self-propelled gun-mortar. Currently being replaced by the 2B23 Nona-M1 120 mm towed mortar and <a href="/wiki/2S31_Vena" title="2S31 Vena">2S31 Vena</a> 120 mm self-propelled gun-mortar/<a href="/wiki/2S12" class="mw-redirect" title="2S12">2S12</a>A modernized 120 mm self-propelled mortar<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2S25_Sprut-SD" title="2S25 Sprut-SD">2S25 Sprut-SD</a> 125 mm self-propelled artillery/anti-tank gun based on <a href="/wiki/BMD-3" title="BMD-3">BMD-3</a> hull</li> <li><a href="/wiki/122_mm_howitzer_2A18_(D-30)" title="122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30)">D-30 (2A18)</a> 122 mm howitzer and anti-tank weapon, towed by truck, not amphibious, able to make 360 degree turns as it is deployed on a tripod</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZU-23-2" title="ZU-23-2">ZU-23-2</a> 23 mm air-defence gun, is either mounted on the BTR-D, or can be towed by a jeep or truck as it has wheels. Since 2011, some ZU-23s are being replaced by the <a href="/wiki/9K35_Strela-10" title="9K35 Strela-10">Strela-10M3/MN</a> and since 2016 by the newest versions of the <a href="/wiki/Buk_missile_system" title="Buk missile system">Buk missile system</a>.<a href="#cite_note-russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TOS-1" title="TOS-1">TOS-1</a>A 220 mm self-propelled 24-barrel thermobaric/incendiary unguided rocket launcher since 2022.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2S36_Zauralets-D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2S36 Zauralets-D (page does not exist)">2S36 Zauralets-D</a> – future 120 mm self-propelled gun-howitzer based on the <a href="/wiki/BMD-4" title="BMD-4">BMD-4</a><a href="#cite_note-:23-125">[125]</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2S37&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2S37 (page does not exist)">2S37</a> – future 152 mm self-propelled gun-howitzer based on the BMD-4<a href="#cite_note-:23-125">[125]</a></li></ul> The VDV is equipped with numerous types of airborne capable trucks and jeeps, for example the <a href="/wiki/Ural-4320" title="Ural-4320">Ural-4320</a>, the <a href="/wiki/GAZ-66" title="GAZ-66">GAZ-66</a>V and the GAZ-2975 "Tigr" for transporting cargo, specialist crews and equipment (e.g. mortars, ammunitions), but not infantry (all fighting paratroopers are transported in armoured vehicles). Currently, the GAZ-66 is being replaced by the <a href="/wiki/KamAZ-4350" title="KamAZ-4350">KamAZ-4350</a>1.<a href="#cite_note-russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="UAVs">UAVs</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: UAVs">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FinalCheck2018-08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/FinalCheck2018-08.jpg/220px-FinalCheck2018-08.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/FinalCheck2018-08.jpg/330px-FinalCheck2018-08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/FinalCheck2018-08.jpg/440px-FinalCheck2018-08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>A Granat-4 UAV of the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Compact recon complex "Iskatel" (The Seeker) with 2 UAVs<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a></li> <li>UAV complex Orlan-10<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a></li> <li>UAV complex Granat<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a></li> <li>UAV complex Takhion<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a></li> <li>Kamikaze FPV drone Boomerang<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZALA_Lancet" title="ZALA Lancet">ZALA Lancet</a> kamikaze drone<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a></li> <li>Albatross M5 reconnaissance drone<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ranks_and_rank_insignia">Ranks and rank insignia</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Ranks and rank insignia">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>Officer ranks</dt></dl> <table style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; 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colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Colonel_general" title="Colonel general">Colonel general</a> генера́л-полко́вник </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_general" title="Lieutenant general">Lieutenant general</a> генера́л-лейтена́нт </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Major_general" title="Major general">Major general</a> генера́л-майо́р </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Polkovnik" title="Polkovnik">Colonel</a> полко́вник </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Podpolkovnik" title="Podpolkovnik">Lieutenant colonel</a> подполко́вник </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">Major</a> майо́р </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Captain_(rank)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (rank)">Captain</a> капита́н </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Senior_lieutenant" title="Senior lieutenant">Senior lieutenant</a> ста́рший лейтена́нт </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">Lieutenant</a> лейтена́нт </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant" title="Lieutenant">Junior lieutenant</a> мла́дший лейтена́нт </td> <td colspan="12"><a href="/wiki/Cadet#Russia" title="Cadet">Cadet</a> Курсант </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Other ranks</dt></dl> <table style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; margin:0 12px 12px 0;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 100%"> <th>Rank group </th> <th colspan="10">General / flag officers </th> <th colspan="6">Senior officers </th> <th colspan="8">Junior officers </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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href="/wiki/Praporshchik" title="Praporshchik">Warrant officer</a> Пра́порщик </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Starshina" title="Starshina">Master sergeant</a> Старшина́ </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Senior_sergeant" title="Senior sergeant">Senior sergeant</a> Ста́рший сержа́нт </td> <td colspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">Sergeant</a> Сержа́нт </td> <td colspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Junior_sergeant" title="Junior sergeant">Junior sergeant</a> Мла́дший сержа́нт </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Yefreytor" class="mw-redirect" title="Yefreytor">Corporal</a> Ефре́йтор </td> <td colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/Ryadovoy" title="Ryadovoy">Private</a> Рядово́й </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commanders_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Forces">Commanders of the Russian Airborne Forces</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Commanders of the Russian Airborne Forces">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg/220px-Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg/330px-Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg/440px-Flag_of_Russia%27s_Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Airborne_Troops.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="548" /></a><figcaption>The flag of Russia's Commander-in-Chief of the Airborne Forces</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Rank </th> <th>Period of command </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yevgeny_Podkolzin" title="Yevgeny Podkolzin">Yevgeny Podkolzin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Colonel_general" title="Colonel general">Colonel general</a> </td> <td>May 1992 – December 1996 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgy_Shpak" title="Georgy Shpak">Georgy Shpak</a> </td> <td>Colonel general </td> <td>4 December 1996 – September 2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Kolmakov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Kolmakov (page does not exist)">Alexander Kolmakov</a> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Колмаков, Александр Петрович">ru</a>] </td> <td>Colonel general </td> <td>8 September 2003 – 19 November 2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valeriy_Yevtukhovich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Valeriy Yevtukhovich (page does not exist)">Valeriy Yevtukhovich</a> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%82%D1%83%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87,_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Евтухович, Валерий Евгеньевич">ru</a>] </td> <td>Colonel general </td> <td>19 November 2007 – 6 May 2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikolai_Ignatov_(general)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikolai Ignatov (general) (page does not exist)">Nikolai Ignatov</a> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Игнатов, Николай Иванович">ru</a>] </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_general" title="Lieutenant general">Lieutenant general</a> </td> <td>6 – 24 May 2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Shamanov" title="Vladimir Shamanov">Vladimir Shamanov</a> </td> <td>Colonel general </td> <td>26 May 2009 – 4 October 2016 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrey_Serdyukov" title="Andrey Serdyukov">Andrey Serdyukov</a> </td> <td>Colonel general </td> <td>4 October 2016 – 16 June 2022 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Traditions">Traditions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Traditions">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" 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(Nobody, but us!)</li> <li>Beret Color: <a href="/wiki/Blue_beret" title="Blue beret">Sky Blue</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paratroopers'_Day_celebrations">Paratroopers' Day celebrations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Paratroopers' Day celebrations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Paratroopers%27_Day" title="Paratroopers' Day">Paratroopers' Day</a></div> Russian airborne troops had their own holiday during the Soviet era, which continues to be celebrated on 2 August. Their most emblematic mark of distinction is a blue beret. VDV soldiers are often called "blue berets". Each year, current and former paratroopers, often in an inebriated state, celebrate by meeting up and wandering city streets and parks. The day is notorious for two common sights: paratroopers frolicking in fountains and picking fights with hapless passers-by.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> On Airborne Forces Day in many Russian cities, it is customary to turn off the fountains and hold veteran reunions near those fountains.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bands">Bands</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Bands">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Russian_military_bands" title="Russian military bands">Russian military bands</a></div> The Combined Military Band of the Airborne Forces is an integral part of all the solemn events of the Airborne Forces. Every year, the band's personnel take part in the Victory Parade on <a href="/wiki/Red_Square" title="Red Square">Red Square</a>, as well as the opening ceremony of the <a href="/wiki/International_Army_Games" title="International Army Games">International Army Games</a>. In the ranks of the combined band were musicians of the military bands of the airborne and assault formations of the Airborne Forces. There were six other <a href="/wiki/Military_band" title="Military band">military bands</a> in the airborne forces.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> The Song and Dance Ensemble of the Airborne Forces is the theatrical troupe of the VDV. It began its creative activity in 1937, as the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble of the <a href="/wiki/Kiev_Military_District" title="Kiev Military District">Kiev Military District</a>, numbering only 18 people. On 3 May 1945, three days after the signing of the German armistice, the ensemble gave a concert on the steps of the destroyed <a href="/wiki/Reichstag_building" title="Reichstag building">Reichstag</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autogeneratedmil-138">[138]</a> During the Cold War, the unit was known as the Song and Dance Ensemble of the <a href="/wiki/Group_of_Soviet_Forces_in_Germany" title="Group of Soviet Forces in Germany">Group of Soviet Forces in Germany</a>. During this time, it had participated in concerts in the cities of <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>. It gained its current status in 1994. The Song and Dance Ensemble also contains the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Berets_(performers)" title="Blue Berets (performers)">Blue Berets</a> musical group.<a href="#cite_note-autogeneratedmil-138">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Gallery">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The 137th Guards Airborne Regiment troops in front of the BMD-4M vehicle."><img alt="The 137th Guards Airborne Regiment troops in front of the BMD-4M vehicle." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg/338px-Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg/507px-Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg/675px-Ryazan_BMD4M-1200-7.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/137th_Guards_Airborne_Regiment" title="137th Guards Airborne Regiment">137th Guards Airborne Regiment</a> troops in front of the <a href="/wiki/BMD-4" title="BMD-4">BMD-4M</a> vehicle.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Inspection2018-08.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade during inspection."><img alt="The 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade during inspection." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Inspection2018-08.jpg/338px-Inspection2018-08.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="150" 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width="226" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Iveco_LMV_Lynx_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops_10.jpg/507px-Iveco_LMV_Lynx_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Iveco_LMV_Lynx_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops_10.jpg/675px-Iveco_LMV_Lynx_of_the_Russian_Airborne_Troops_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Scout of the <a href="/wiki/106th_Guards_Airborne_Division" title="106th Guards Airborne Division">106th Guards Airborne Division</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:FinalCheck2018-18.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Final check of the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade"><img alt="Final check of the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/FinalCheck2018-18.jpg/338px-FinalCheck2018-18.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/FinalCheck2018-18.jpg/507px-FinalCheck2018-18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/FinalCheck2018-18.jpg/675px-FinalCheck2018-18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Final check of the <a href="/wiki/56th_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="56th Guards Air Assault Brigade">56th Guards Air Assault Brigade</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 227.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 225.33333333333px;"><a href="/wiki/File:83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paratroopers of the 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade during an exercise."><img alt="Paratroopers of the 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade during an exercise." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg/338px-83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg" decoding="async" width="226" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg/507px-83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg/675px-83AABAirborneExercise2017-45.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Paratroopers of the <a href="/wiki/83rd_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade" title="83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade">83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade</a> during an exercise.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_Operations_Forces_(Russia)" title="Special Operations Forces (Russia)">Special Operations Forces (Russia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Air_Assault_Forces" title="Ukrainian Air Assault Forces">Ukrainian Air Assault Forces</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_Airborne_Forces&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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(21 June 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/armedforcesofrus0000aust">Red Star East: The Armed Forces of Russia in Asia</a>. <a href="/wiki/Allen_%26_Unwin" title="Allen & Unwin">Allen & Unwin</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1864485981" title="Special:BookSources/978-1864485981"><bdi>978-1864485981</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2001276255">2001276255</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/859420476">859420476</a>. <a href="/wiki/OL_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OL (identifier)">OL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL38565480M">38565480M</a> – via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Red+Star+East%3A+The+Armed+Forces+of+Russia+in+Asia&rft.pub=Allen+%26+Unwin&rft.date=2000-06-21&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F859420476&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F2001276255&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fbooks%2FOL38565480M%23id-name%3DOL&rft.isbn=978-1864485981&rft.aulast=Austin&rft.aufirst=Greg&rft.au=Muraviev%2C+Alexey+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Farmedforcesofrus0000aust&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARussian+Airborne+Forces" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBonn2004" class="citation book cs1">Bonn, Keith E. (7 November 2004). Slaughterhouse : The Handbook of the Eastern front. The Aberjona Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0971765092" title="Special:BookSources/978-0971765092"><bdi>978-0971765092</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1170020077">1170020077</a>. <a href="/wiki/OL_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OL (identifier)">OL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8565591M">8565591M</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Slaughterhouse+%3A+The+Handbook+of+the+Eastern+front&rft.pub=The+Aberjona+Press&rft.date=2004-11-07&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1170020077&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fbooks%2FOL8565591M%23id-name%3DOL&rft.isbn=978-0971765092&rft.aulast=Bonn&rft.aufirst=Keith+E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARussian+Airborne+Forces" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131210231617/http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/sssr-89-91/vdv.htm"><bdi lang="ru">Состав и дислокация Воздушно-десантных войск</bdi></a> [The composition and deployment of the Airborne Forces]. brinkster.com (in Russian). n.d. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/sssr-89-91/vdv.htm">the original</a> on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=brinkster.com&rft.atitle=%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2+%D0%B8+%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85+%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww8.brinkster.com%2Fvad777%2Fsssr-89-91%2Fvdv.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARussian+Airborne+Forces" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFeskovKalashnikovGolikov2000" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Feskov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Golikov, V.I. (21 June 2000). <bdi lang="ru">Sovetskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ v gody "kholodnoĭ voĭny," 1945-1991</bdi> [The Soviet Army in the Years of the 'Cold War' (1945–1991)] (in Russian). <a href="/wiki/Tomsk_State_University" title="Tomsk State University">Tomsk University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-7511-1819-7" title="Special:BookSources/5-7511-1819-7"><bdi>5-7511-1819-7</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/61109861">61109861</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/859420476">859420476</a>. <a href="/wiki/OL_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OL (identifier)">OL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL38565480M">38565480M</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sovetskai%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1+Armii%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1+v+gody+%22kholodno%C4%AD+vo%C4%ADny%2C%22+1945-1991&rft.pub=Tomsk+University+Press&rft.date=2000-06-21&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F859420476&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F61109861&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fbooks%2FOL38565480M%23id-name%3DOL&rft.isbn=5-7511-1819-7&rft.aulast=Feskov&rft.aufirst=V.I.&rft.au=Kalashnikov%2C+K.A.&rft.au=Golikov%2C+V.I.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARussian+Airborne+Forces" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFeskovGolikovKalashnikovSlugin2013" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. 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