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The 79th Airmobile Brigade ((ウクライナ語:79 окрема аеромобільна бригада, ''79 okrema aeromobilna brygada'')) is a formation of the Ukrainian Airmobile Forces. Brigade is located in Mykolaiv. For their transport the Brigade uses UAZ fitted with DShK anti-aircraft machine gun, 2B14 Podnos 82mm mortar, SPG-9D, AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher.〔(Newspaper "Peoples Army" )〕 Until summer of 2007 the Brigade was a Regiment. In 2008 the Brigade is being manned by contract soldiers.〔 (Preparing for the Army )〕 Soldiers from the Brigade have served as peacekeepers in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Kosovo, Sierra Leone.〔〔(Ukraine, NATO start military drills in Poland )〕 In 2014 the Brigade took part in suppressing the 2014 insurgency in Donbass during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine.〔https://news.pn/en/public/109677〕 ==History== The Brigades history began as 40th Air Assault Brigade in the late 1979.〔 V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945-91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004 pg31〕 Later it was reorganized into the 40th Airborne Brigade in the later years of the 1980s (1.6 1990 according to Holm). That redesignation marked the transfer of the brigade from the Odessa Military District to the Soviet Airborne Troops. In September 1993 the Brigade was renamed 40th Separate Airmobile Brigade.〔(History of Airmobile Forces )〕 The 40th Brigade was reorganized and reduced into the 79th Airmobile Regiment. On July 1, 2007 the Brigade was formed by combining the 79th Airmobile Regiment with 11th Army Aviation Regiment.〔 (15th Anniversary of Ukrainian Airmobile Forces )〕〔(Ukrainian Armed Forces 2007 White Book p.38 )〕 In 2014 the Brigade took part in the fighting of the 2014 insurgency in Donbass during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine.〔https://news.pn/en/public/110083〕〔https://news.pn/en/public/110084〕 54 persons called up for mobilization (and thus serving in the Brigade) deserted.〔https://news.pn/en/public/110189〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「79th Airmobile Brigade (Ukraine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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