Special Forces history holds numerous obscure tales, like the unique joint US Special Forces-Russian Spetsnaz combat mission.

Germany’s covert commandos who infiltrated enemy lines in disguise, captured critical bridges, and conducted sabotage deep ...

'The Soviets didn’t train for aesthetics. They trained for war,' says hybrid athlete and author James Pieratt of Wild Hunt ...

VLADIMIR Putin has unleashed his ruthless Spetsnaz special forces unit who train with live bullets and kill dogs with shovels into Ukraine to execute Volodymyr Zelensky as the invasion continues ...

Two Spetsnaz soldiers spar during training Credit: Alamy They also learn a martial art they call Sambo - a vicious form of no-holds-barred street fighting in which recruits are trained to use ...

Spetsnaz snipers play an important role in the elite force, and they carry a variety of weapons. Although it's less commonly used today, some still prefer the SVD Dragunov, which fires 7.62 mm ...

Spetsnaz proved itself to be highly efficient unit during the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan, the two Chechen wars and the war with Georgia in 2008.

Most of the Spetsnaz are akin to US Army Rangers, while about 1,000 of them are on par with the US Army's Delta Force or Navy SEALs. The video shows Spetsnaz troops storming the ship by air and ...

Spetsnaz members are paid the equivalent of between €1,000 and €2,500 per month. Veterans of the elite unit are forced to work for security firms once they leave active service because their ...