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Senior Fellow @FPRI. Previously @USMC, @ColumbiaSIPA, @CentreAST. Focused on Russian defense policy.

Jun 2, 2021, 6 tweets

Video of a 2017 GOPLAT exercise in Crimea with FSB Special Purpose Center officers, presumably from Vympel.
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Second video from that 2017 FSB Special Purpose Center GOPLAT exercise. 2/

Video showing FSB Special Purpose Center dive officers during the GOPLAT exercise. 3/

Another team parachuted from a Mi-8AMTSh helicopter onto an adjacent ship and the platform's helicopter landing pad. 4/

The last part of the exercise shows an FSB Special Purpose Center officers landing on the platform's helicopter pad and a number of Karatel and Viking vehicles on the move. 5/

Steyr TMP, Brügger & Thomet MP9, and PP-19 Vityaz submachine guns and Tseltium ballistic shields. 6/

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