Photos Counter Terror and Special Mission / Operations Units

[santana]

FBI

Could not recover these photos @santana sorry

 

[obcaleb_actual]

Mexican Army FEAM/FER circa 2011.

As you may be aware these photos are no longer hosted by postimg.org and I have been unable to recover them @obcaleb_actual sorry

 

[Josiah]

Great set of photos. Massive respect for these guys. Two very good books on the history of the FBI HRT are Danny Coulson's "No Heroes: Inside the FBI's Secret Counter-terror Force" and Christopher Whitcomb's "Cold Zero". These two books provided great insight of what led the FBI to set-up their own special tactical unit and of course, the incidents at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

 

[berkut76]

SBU Alfa "kill house" training facility. I'll let you figure out what I have supplied.

 

[berkut76]

SBU Team Alfa arrests a low level Russian spy. Ukrainian Police officer who has been charged with espionage working for FSB and allegedly reporting movements of the Ukrainian units, air defense in particular near the Russian - Ukrainian border in Kharkiv region.

 

[berkut76]

A buddy of mine helps SSO units (Ministry of defense). We don't agree on strategy since he buys as much as possible as cheaply as possible from Amazon. But the guys are happy to get even this kind of materiel support. Sadly, the ALFA unit that I look after in terms of euipment looks like DEVGRU in comparison to the teams from the 3rd and 8th Special Forces regiments.

 

[Gordus]

Some old school - Georgia

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[Gordus]

Old but gold

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[Gordus]

Delta Force, 1993 Mogadishu

Source: mostly printerest

 

[Josiah]

Delta Force, 1993 Mogadishu

Source: mostly printerest

Love this set of photos. Can't help staring at those CAR-15s and MH-6 Little Birds.

 

[Gordus]

Love this set of photos. Can't help staring at those CAR-15s and MH-6 Little Birds.

Delta always an eyecatcher But so are all the others.

 

[santana]

Is it just me or is there something nice about seeing an M4 in its almost basic configuration?

Nope you are correct!!!

 

[Josiah]

This is probably my favourite photo of Delta Force.

 

[Josiah]

Some photos of Canada's Joint Task Force 2 during its early years. The good old days of all-black uniforms and H&K's famous "pew-pew" guns.

Link: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...-days-of-canadas-most-elite-special-operators

 

[berkut76]

Ukrainian Ministry of Interior CT unit VEGA. New uniforms, essentially Gorka with "hunter" camo patches.

 

[Josiah]

Ukrainian Ministry of Interior CT unit VEGA. New uniforms, essentially Gorka with "hunter" camo patches.

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Are these guys the Ukrainian equivalent to Austria's EKO Cobra?

 

[berkut76]

Are these guys the Ukrainian equivalent to Austria's EKO Cobra?

Yes, absolutely. Although, I keep getting lost in endless Ukrainian special forces reforms, re-organizations, and, of course, service rivalries. There is a lot of mission duplication, inefficient oneupmanship when it comes to equipment. That being said, as you can see from the photos that I've posted National Guard is definitely tops when it comes to equipment and training compared to the armed forces and even SBU Alfa. They are pretty much at NATO-level at this point.

 

[obcaleb_actual]

Mexican Army CFE (Cuerpo de Fuerzas Especiales) "Special Forces Corps"

These guys are roughly analogous to U.S Army Rangers. The SFC is the only and main Mexican Army Special Operartions Command and was activated in 2004, these guys were known as "GAFES" in the past (just don't confuse them with Tier-1 FER), most of FER operators come from the SFC. Right now SFC have 6 Batallones de Fuerzas Especiales (Special Forces Battalions) which are basically special operations light infantry.

Few photos:

^Several SFC members are 18X (US Green Berets) qualified as well Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger School.

^Training with U.S Army Special Forces, also note the MK16 (SCAR-L) rifles in use.

 

[Josiah]

Yes, absolutely. Although, I keep getting lost in endless Ukrainian special forces reforms, re-organizations, and, of course, service rivalries. There is a lot of mission duplication, inefficient oneupmanship when it comes to equipment. That being said, as you can see from the photos that I've posted National Guard is definitely tops when it comes to equipment and training compared to the armed forces and even SBU Alfa. They are pretty much at NATO-level at this point.

Thanks for the clarification mate. I've loosely followed the reorganisation of Ukraine's security structure and units post-Euromaidan with interest. Did the Ukrainian military lose some of its members to defection (just like the police's Berkut)?

 

[AAR Galileo]

US Special Force in Syria near an EMTAS (120mm mortar with powered aiming and control system)