Talk:Russian Airborne Troops

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[edit] Title

Is "Airborne Troops" an official English name? Troops, referring to individual soldiers and not organizations, is usually only used informally; in traditional military parlance a troop is a small cavalry formation, part of a squadron. "Airborne Forces" seems like a better translation of voyska to me. —Michael Z. 2006-10-29 06:55 Z

In the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense appears as Airborne Troops. See here.--Darz Mol 02:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Good enough. Thank you. —Michael Z. 2006-10-31 02:58 Z

[edit] What are they?

Are the Airbone Forces an arm of service, equal with the army and air force, or are they part of the army?

The Airborne Troops are the most capable mobile assault forces of Russia, as they are airborne forces in the first place

What? —Michael Z. 2007-08-05 06:43 Z

They are currently not equal to the 3 primary branches, but they are a sort of secondary branch directly subordinate to the Ministry of Defence. If the MoD is a division, then the Army, Air Force and Navy are the regiments and Strategic Rockets, Space and Airborne are the independent battalions. --Kazuaki Shimazaki 14:08, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Special forces within VDV

The reason I categorised the VDV as special forces is because of the Special Reconnaissance article. The Reconnaissance troops of VDV are also trained in these tasks although they are nominally subunits of their parent formations. Besides that most SpetzNaz troops can only reach their units following either service or at least training with VDV. -- mrg3105mrg3105 05:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)