World's most elite combat soldiers?

[mudwhistle]

Conventional Warfare? Probably the US Army Infantry, Including Rangers and Delta. Not to mention the Royal Marines, those guys can pack a serious punch.. And of course our own Marines.

Armored Warfare? I would say the M1A1 Is at a huge advantage over it's Russian Competitor.

Air Warfare? Depends.. The F-22 Is one piece of Engineering.. I would have to go with the Navy and Air Force.

What else em I missing?

Team Delta isn't conventional forces.

If you're talking large scale operations it's a toss up between the Marines and the Rangers. The Rangers are basically Marines that think.

If you want to do a snatch or fight a war with foreign forces as the main combat units then Special Forces or the Green Berets are the best.

If you want waterborn operations the SEALS are the best.

If the mission is complex and takes place over a long period but you don't need alot of exposure...then Team Delta is the best...or maybe SAS units.

Who is the best really depends on the mission.

 

[syrenn]

microbes and virus's

Universal soldiers and no one ever sees them coming!

 

[editec]

Best soldiers?

Viet Cong irregulars circa 1968.

They'd take licking and kept on kicking.

 

[Kalam]

Who is the best of the best?

Discuss.

Russian remains a good soldier everywhere and in all conditions. One of the main advantages of Russian is its ability to withstand the tremendous devastation and bloody battles, as well as the opportunity to present an unusually severe conditions.

Russian certainly an excellent soldier and skillful leadership is a dangerous opponent. It would be a serious mistake to underestimate him

In battle, Russian hateful and extremely cruel. These qualities are characteristic for the Russian - the Asian part of the inhabitants of the country, Mongols, Turkmen and Uzbeks, as well as for the Slavs who live west of the Urals.

Suffice it to read, as appreciated Russian soldiers by the Germans. Take the memoirs of any known German military officer. The Germans were determined that the resistance of Soviet soldiers connected with their national character.

Excellent soldiers don't have entire armored columns destroyed by a handful of guerillas.

The Shatoy ambush (known in Russia as the 'Battle of Yaryshmardy) was an April 16, 1996, attack by forces of an Arab-born commander Ibn al-Khattab near the town of Shatoy in the southern mountains of Chechnya, during the First Chechen War.... According to the U.S. book The Wolves of Islam, the destroyed convoy numbered 50 vehicles (trucks, fuel tankers, APCs and a mine-clearing T-80 tank) and by Khattab's own count more than 200 soldiers were killed. A video of the ambush and its aftermath, widely distributed and celebrated in Chechnya, featured Khattab "walking triumphantly down a line of blackened Russian corpses", and gained him the early fame in Chechnya and a great notoriety in Russia. The images of carnage also caused a new calls for the Russia's defence minister Pavel Grachev to resign, while Russia suspended its limited troop withdrawal.

Shatoy ambush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Hister]

Excellent soldiers don't have entire armored columns destroyed by a handful of guerillas.

Excellent soldiers don't fight in slippers and pyjamas like the muslims do. And they don't need to hire the US army to protect them like Saudi Arabia.

Kalam, do you wear PJs and slippers out in public too? And a big fuzzy, itchy, scratchy beard? Or are you a fake muslim? or wannabe?

 

[Kalam]

Excellent soldiers don't have entire armored columns destroyed by a handful of guerillas.

Excellent soldiers don't fight in slippers and pyjamas like the muslims do.

Some can pull it off.

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And they don't need to hire the US army to protect them like Saudi Arabia.

Who said anything about them?

Kalam, do you wear PJs and slippers out in public too? And a big fuzzy, itchy, scratchy beard?

When I get my paper in the morning, yeah.

Or are you a fake muslim? or wannabe?

Like this guy?

Richard Francis Burton, An Adventurer in Disguise

 

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[mudwhistle]

Best soldiers?

Viet Cong irregulars circa 1968.

They'd take licking and kept on kicking.

Not really.

They can't pack enough food and water to last a long mission. They're limited in their range. They usually won by being sneaky and by use of overwhelming numbers....not by being the best.

 

[Toome]

Best soldiers?

Viet Cong irregulars circa 1968.

They'd take licking and kept on kicking.

No offense intended, but this is a classic example of historical inaccuracy. During the Tet Offensive in January-February 1968, 80,000 Viet Cong irregulars launched a massive attack in more than 100 towns and villages in South Vietnam hoping to motivate the local population to join the uprising. Estimates vary from 40,000 Viet Cong KIA estimated by the US/RVN side to an admitted 75,000 Viet Cong KIA estimated by the NVA, but the point is that the Viet Cong were wiped out. It was a huge military disaster. Just about every one of them were killed or wounded.

The irony of ironies is that this total, complete and absolute North Vietnamese military disaster was a huge propaganda victory. It totally and completely turned American opinion around and was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back in escalating American anti-war sentiments. It was then that Walter Cronkite, the "most trusted man in America," said in an editorial that the war was lost and the only hopeful solution was to negotiate a peace with the North Vietnamese.

So, if your definition is that they were great by being the poor dumb bastards who died for their country, you're absolutely correct. Their deaths led to victory.

 

[CMike]

The Israeli elite groups by far.

 

[Jos]

Many people have heard of the SAS how many know of the British SBS?
Special Boat Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[mudwhistle]

Many people have heard of the SAS how many know of the British SBS?
Special Boat Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not much difference between them and the UDT/Seals

 

[CMike]

Sayeret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sayarot and elite special operations units that became public over the years include (while it is believed that other units which have not gone public also exist):

Sayeret Matkal is a special operations unit under the IDF Intelligence Command. It is a designated deep reconnaissance unit but it also has counter-terrorist responsibilities. The unit is modelled on the British Special Air Service. It is perhaps most known internationally for Operation Entebbe (in which they rescued more than 100 Air France airline passengers hijacked to Uganda by PLO ) and similar operations like Operation Isotope. It is the most elite unit in the IDF
Sayeret Golani is an elite special operations unit. It consists of three highly trained Special Force Units Orev, Palsar, and Palchan. (same format as the other infantry Brigades) This unit has been so successful because of the soldiers aggressiveness, expertise, and training.
Maglan is a commando unit which specialized in operating behind enemy lines. The unit is relatively new, and little is known about it. Maglan is best known for its part in the Second Lebanon War.
Yehidat Shaldag is the Israeli Air Force Commando unit. The unit perform special missions by using advanced combat technologies. It is best known for its actions in Operation Litani, Operation Accountability, Operation Sharp and Smooth, and the speculation about its role in Operation Orchard.
Sayeret Yael is a special elite combat engineering and commando unit of the Combat Engineering Corps. It is specialized in accurate demolitions and planting pinpoint explosives along with other high-scale combat engineering operations in and outside the Israeli borders. Sayeret Yael is part of Yahalom - elite combat engineering unit for special missions, which beside engineering commando also deals with EOD, bomb disposal, robotics, counter-tunnels warfare, development of combat engineering equipment and other classified tasks.
Shayetet 13 ("Flotilla 13") is the elite Israeli amphibious naval special forces commando unit. It is known for its Tyre raid, Operation Spring of Youth and Operation Bulmus 6.
Duvdevan Unit - The Duvdevan Unit is one of the most renowned special forces units in Israel for its undercover operations. Only Duvdevan and Sayeret Matkal are authorized to wear their uniforms without identifying shoulder tabs.
Sayeret Tzanhanim is an elite unit contained within the Tzanhanim Brigade. The unit participated in the Entebbe operation in conjunction with Sayeret Matkal and Sayeret Golani



Sayeret Egoz - IDF Northern Command Counter-Guerilla Unit
Unit Oketz - IDF K-9 unit
Unit Moran & Unit Meitar - IDF Artillery Corps Special Forces Anti-Armour Units
Unit Yachmam - IDF Target Observation and Deep Reconnaissance
Unit Yanmam - Airborne-capable Anti-Aircraft unit
Sayeret Haruv - Former IDF Central Command Special Forces unit
Sayeret Shaked - Former IDF Southern Command Special Forces unit
Sayeret Rimon - Former Counter-Terrorism unit that was forerunner to others like Shimshon and Duvdevan. Meir Dagan was a member of Rimon.
Samson's Foxes - Gaza Strip: Former Occupied Territories Counter-Terrorism unit
Unit Yaban - IDF/Navy Force Protection unit (Along with Unit Oketz has female operators within its ranks)
Unit Yaltam - IDF/Navy Salvage and Recovery unit
LOTAR Eilat - IDF Reserve Force Counter-Terrorism/Hostage Rescue Unit, based at the Southern Israeli port city of Eilat.
Unit 669 - IDF/AF Aeromedical Rescue Unit.
Palsar 7 & Palsar 188 & Palsar 401 - The 7th, 188th and 401st Armored Brigades Reconnaissance units
Unit 707 - Former IDF/Navy Defensive Divers unit.
Unit 5707 - IDF/AF Target Observation and Surveillance unit.
Unit 869 - Specialist Visual Intelligence, Observation and Surveillance unit
Unit Alpinistim - IDF Alpine unit that patrols the Golan Heights and provides protection for IDF Electronic Listening Posts located at Mount Hermon and Har Avital. This unit also provides alpine rescue services.
Each of the four Infantry Brigades (Golani, Givati, Nahal and Paratroopers) has its own Gadsar (Gedud siyur, as mentioned above) special unit contained within it. Each unit belong to a specific regional command, and there it mainly operate, but all the "Gadsar" unit work in almost every region they call.

 

[Jos]

You missed out Sayeret Mtsots li ta'zain now they know there job, and do it well

 

[CMike]

I think Israel's elite units, could kick any other country's unit's butts.

 

[DiveCon]

I think Israel's elite units, could kick any other country's unit's butts.

i think the US SF could give them a run for their money, but we are not at odds with them

 

[Ringel05]

Who is the best of the best?

Navy Corpsmen, Army & Air Force medics.

 

[Caroljo]

I don't know about who's the best....but just gotta brag that my son was selected for Special Forces training a few weeks ago! This is something he's been working for, it was his 3rd time at selection. He's a Sgt in the Army, 27 yrs old...and of course it's not the perfect job a mother would want for her kid...but i'm happy for him because it's what he wanted so badly.

 

[DiveCon]

I don't know about who's the best....but just gotta brag that my son was selected for Special Forces training a few weeks ago! This is something he's been working for, it was his 3rd time at selection. He's a Sgt in the Army, 27 yrs old...and of course it's not the perfect job a mother would want for her kid...but i'm happy for him because it's what he wanted so badly.

congrats
and give a thanks to your son for his service

 

[topspin]

for large units the marine corp IMO

After college I worked in a healthclub with an ex Seal and an ex green barret those were the two most confident scary to stand next to guy's I've ever met to this day.