The Parachute Regiment is the Airborne Infantry element of the British Army. It is an elite unit by virtue of its stringent selection process, rigorous training programme and by the requirement of its role to operate with minimal or no support behind enemy lines and against numerically superior forces
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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its top speed of 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h) was faster than contemporary utility and attack helicopters of the 1960s
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The AUG is an Austrian bullpup 5.56mm assault rifle was adopted by the Austrian Army as the StG 77 (Sturmgewehr 77) in 1977, where it replaced the 7.62mm StG 58 automatic rifle. In production since 1978, it is the standard small arm of the Austrian Bundesheer and various national police units.
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The Jagdkommando is the Austrian Armed Forces’ Special Operations group. The duties of this elite unit match those of its foreign counterparts, such as the United States Army Special Forces, being among other Counter-Terrorism and Counter insurgency
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The LAV-25 is an eight-wheeled amphibious infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) used by the United States Marine Corps. It was built by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada and is based on the Swiss MOWAG Piranha I 8×8 family of armored fighting vehicles.
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The M1 Abrams is a third-generation main battle tank produced in the United States. It is named after General Creighton Abrams, former Army Chief of Staff and Commander of US military forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972
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The 11 Luchtmobiele Brigade is the elite rapid-reaction air assault unit of the Royal Netherlands Army. Its operators are trained to be deployed via helicopters and fixed wing aircraft
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The Spanish Legión is an elite unit of the Spanish Army. Founded as the Tercio de Extranjeros, it was originally intended as a Spanish equivalent of the French Foreign Legion
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The MG4 is a belt-fed 5.56 mm light machine gun designed and developed by the German weapon company Heckler & Koch. The weapon was developed in the late 1990s and was released publicly in September 2001
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The Philippine Marine Corps, although not as formally established as the Infanteria de Marina of the Spanish Navy, Filipino naval infantrymen during the Spanish colonial period (1565-1898) fought just as well against internal and external threats to the Philippine Islands, notably Moro and Chinese pirates, and Dutch naval forces.
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