RusCan2013
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Russian Navy specnaz units "Dolphin" and several others, can fight on land if needed
but their primary environment is water, on and under.
Training in underwater fighting in a pool
Their weapons for underwater combat are SPP pistol
and APS rifle
They also have portable submersibles they can use to transport small, usually 2 man, teams to, for example, place explosives on the bottom of a ship
They used to, in the Soviet days, also have small mini-submarines that carried whole units of them behind enemy lines and such. Yeltsin scrapped them all. Bastard. They say if the "Dolphins" still had their mini-subs in 2000, they could have rescued the crew of the "Kursk", including my uncle... Yeltsin was a ****ing useless drunk pig. But, I am going off topic. In any case, I've read in Russian military media Putin now wants to build some new ones like that for them. Understandable, him taking a personal interest: a team of these guys deploys underwater around his yacht when he goes out into the sea to go fishing or something lol Because, God forbid some assassin jumps out at him from the water lmao
Russian equivalent to US SEALs? No? What do you guys think? It interests me because Russia is my parents' country, plus, it may happen I, as a Canadian Forces reservist and potentially active duty soldier, may have to face those men in battle some day. Not something I am looking forward to, by the way, to be entirely honest. Those fellows look pretty badass... They are popularly called Sea Devils, and many consider them the toughest of all specnaz, and that says a lot IMHO
but their primary environment is water, on and under.
Training in underwater fighting in a pool
Their weapons for underwater combat are SPP pistol
and APS rifle
They also have portable submersibles they can use to transport small, usually 2 man, teams to, for example, place explosives on the bottom of a ship
They used to, in the Soviet days, also have small mini-submarines that carried whole units of them behind enemy lines and such. Yeltsin scrapped them all. Bastard. They say if the "Dolphins" still had their mini-subs in 2000, they could have rescued the crew of the "Kursk", including my uncle... Yeltsin was a ****ing useless drunk pig. But, I am going off topic. In any case, I've read in Russian military media Putin now wants to build some new ones like that for them. Understandable, him taking a personal interest: a team of these guys deploys underwater around his yacht when he goes out into the sea to go fishing or something lol Because, God forbid some assassin jumps out at him from the water lmao
Russian equivalent to US SEALs? No? What do you guys think? It interests me because Russia is my parents' country, plus, it may happen I, as a Canadian Forces reservist and potentially active duty soldier, may have to face those men in battle some day. Not something I am looking forward to, by the way, to be entirely honest. Those fellows look pretty badass... They are popularly called Sea Devils, and many consider them the toughest of all specnaz, and that says a lot IMHO
