Airborne (VDV) Desant,Blue Berets «Nobody,but us» - 2 August,1930 (Founded General Vasily Margelov) Paratroopers only one in the world made a landing in the Arctic ocean in frost,- 60° in 2014 and 2015.
Russian Paratroopers Valiantly Fought,Soviet-Finnish War,Great Patriotic War,Kerch-Feodosiya landing Operation,Battle Of Stalingrad,Kursk Battle,Battle Of The Dnieper,Operation "Bagration",Operation Whirlwind",Operation "Danube",Operation "Black January",Operation "Rhodope",Budapest Operation,Prague Offensive,Afghan Campaign,Peacekeeping Operation In Abkhazia,Peacekeeping Operation Bosnia And Kosovo,Chechen Campaign,War South Ossetia,Liberation Crimea,Fight against terrorists in North Caucasus and in Syria at the moment.
Airborne Troops (VDV) - genus of the Armed Forces,which means Supreme Command and intended to reach the enemy in the air and perform tasks in his rear to disrupt command and control, seizure and destruction of ground-based elements of precision weapons, disrupt the advance and deployment of reserves violation Job logistics and communications,as well as cover-up (defense) individual areas, areas exposed flanks, blocking and destruction of airborne troops landed,had broken through enemy forces and perform other tasks.
In peacetime,Airborne Troops have primary responsibility for the maintenance of combat and mobilization readiness at a level ensuring their successful application as intended.
3 unique fact about VDV
1) Russian Paratroopers the only kind of troops in the world, which emerged victorious from a complete encirclement of the enemy (Defensive battle at the height of 3234 in Afghanistan and battle in the Argun Gorge at height of 776 in Chechnya.).
2) Only VDV may parachute in armored vehicles (Airborne NATO limited only by landing cargo and ammunition).
3) Only in Russia there is a unique top university for officer training paratroopers Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (has no analogues in the world).

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