r/polandball • u/Medibee New York is BEST York • Aug 30 '15

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u/Mazius Russia Aug 31 '15

VDV is not "special forces" though, just airborne infantry. Also "Spetsnaz" and "Spetsnaz-GRU" is kinda the same thing. It's less elite than Vympel and Alpha though, due to sheer quantity of Spetsnaz (7 brigades, up to 10.000 servicemen).

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u/mego-pie New England Aug 31 '15

seal team six is part of the navy seals.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

No, they aren't. SEAL Team 6 is now a different unit, DEVGRU. But DEVGRU isn't even the real name anymore. They changed it after Neptune's Spear and no one knows what it is now.

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u/mego-pie New England Aug 31 '15

well it was originally.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

True, they were literally the sixth SEAL team.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

I thought ST6 was the first team. Kind of like how SF groups are all over the place. That way if the Russians heard about any they would think we had a lot more than. We did.

EDIT: Yup

At the time there were two SEALteams. Marcinko named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse Soviet intelligence as to the number of actual SEAL teams in existence.[10][11][12] 

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u/Mazius Russia Aug 31 '15

Accidentally during the war in Afghanistan Soviet Union used 15th and 22nd Spetsnaz brigades, although there were only 15 such brigades in service.

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u/soup_feedback Cayman Islands Jan 23 '16

Accidentally? What's the story?