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ampson
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2355 Posts
November 27 2011 17:50 GMT
#201
The S.A.S and Navy SEALs are generally considered the top special forces units, but there's no real way to tell.
DeadBull
Profile Joined August 2011
421 Posts
November 27 2011 17:51 GMT
#202
arent they all killing other people ?
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
November 27 2011 17:52 GMT
#203
SBS and Delta Force... And of course the Navy Seals.

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Lynkilen
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway211 Posts
November 27 2011 17:53 GMT
#204
While i have no comment on who is most "elite" let me share this quote on how crazy the FSK training used to be.

"Testimony in court and in the media indicates that training previously included parachute landings on helicopter landing-pads related to oil platforms. The SAS considered such as suicide missions."
Poyo
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada790 Posts
November 27 2011 17:54 GMT
#205
Too many people in this thread keep mentioning Mossad. I'll repeat myself, the Mossad is an intelligence agency somewhat like the CIA. They are not a special forces unit, they do not fall under the IDF, nor take orders from the chief of staff/military high command. The Mossad is a government agency with operatives similar to MI6 and CIA.

Israeli military special forces partially include:
Sayeret matkal (Similar to SAS/Delta)
Shayetet 13 (The Israeli navy seals)
Shaldag (Air force special forces laser targeting and such)
Unit 669 (Airbone rescue and evac unit)

There are quite a few more small units under different wings of the military and pretty much each division has its own "special operations unit" called Sayarot.

The cream of the crop in Israel is most likely considered to be YAMAM which is a anti terror police unit comprized of ex military special forces veterans. As you can imagine only the top of the military spec ops community actually become a YAMAM operative.

So yeah there's a big difference between a government agency like Mossad and the military spec ops units.
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allecto
Profile Joined November 2010
328 Posts
November 27 2011 17:54 GMT
#206
It's definitely the CIA's SOG (Special Operations Group). They recruit from Delta Force, Seal Team 6, other top Special Forces groups.
Pulimuli
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Sweden2766 Posts
November 27 2011 17:55 GMT
#207
On November 27 2011 17:37 Diamond wrote:
I don't know who is the most badass but the Russian Spetznaz for sure have the most gangster training.

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Its a widely known fact that you did not fuck with the Spetznaz ^^
SilentchiLL
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany1405 Posts
November 27 2011 18:01 GMT
#208
On November 27 2011 21:49 SilentchiLL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 27 2011 21:36 alecspec wrote:
On November 27 2011 21:22 gwaihir wrote:
Navy seals and SF are a joke compared to most ....yes get over it americans....
best is probaly the british SAS, followed by german KSK and russian speznaz


No you are wrong.

Many of the teams are not comparable to SAS but SEAL team 6 and BUDS for example are among worlds finest SpecOps.

Do not think KSK is considered in the same league as SAS and Spetznaz mate.



Well the GSG9 won in the years 2005 and 2006 international comparission competitions (the Original SWAT World Challenge (OSWC) in the USA)

And the SEK of Baden-Württemberg won the international Combat Team Conference, which is known as the inofficial worldchampionship of police and military special forces, this year and defended it's title as the worldchampions from the year 2007.

Don't really know what the KSK have accomplished and I'm too lazy to look it up



I'll quote myself, because 29 out of 30 posts here say:
"Dat groop be so guhd"
Without giving any good reasons why their pick should be under the best units.
Oh and ofc the guys who shun everything and present their favourites as demigods.
Come on guys I know you can do it better, I've seen some funny posts here already and posts with actual content, so I know that you can be better!
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GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
November 27 2011 18:04 GMT
#209
On November 28 2011 02:49 Lumin wrote:
Israeli Commandos HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


So funny.


Always insightful...

I'd have to say the SAS, they had a show on TV that was an obstacle course and then they had some units from around the world compete under certain conditions. The SAS won, each season I believe.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
BroboCop
Profile Joined December 2010
United States373 Posts
November 27 2011 18:05 GMT
#210
honestly there isn't nescecerily one best each have their own perks:
technology: clearly the americans take this with the various amount of research that goes into new weaponry etc
discipline/endurance: israelies or russians, they are crazy
can't think of any other categories atm.
Squeegy
Profile Joined October 2009
Finland1166 Posts
November 27 2011 18:05 GMT
#211
This thread is full of stupid.

In Eastern Gonghordistan the special forces have to sit naked on ant nests for 10 years! Those with the least amount of bites are chosens in the end. They are clearly the most elite special forces.

Do you get my point?
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Sfydjklm
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States9218 Posts
November 27 2011 18:06 GMT
#212
There is no doubt that Russian special forces go through the most grueling training regimen, but every operation they had so far has shown only one thing- that theyre good at killing people.

However every operation they had also shows that their tactical command is the worst in the world and probably loses out to tactical units of most police departments out there.
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cHeK
Profile Joined April 2011
United States35 Posts
November 27 2011 18:09 GMT
#213
Seal Team 6?

leo23
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States3075 Posts
November 27 2011 18:16 GMT
#214
the team that the cia assembles to kill people??
banelings
blinken
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada368 Posts
November 27 2011 18:17 GMT
#215
The Canadian Joint Task Force 2 or JTF2 - all the way.
Zazzles
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Slovakia153 Posts
November 27 2011 18:19 GMT
#216
SKT1

User was warned for this post
"Fortune favors the bold"
taldarimAltar
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
973 Posts
November 27 2011 18:22 GMT
#217
The ones that control the transformers
Cosmology
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada360 Posts
November 27 2011 18:24 GMT
#218
JTF2 from what I heard are very elite, up there with the Seals and SAS I do believe.
Somewhere, something amazing is waiting to be known.
sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
November 27 2011 18:27 GMT
#219
Take your pick from Mossad, Spetznaz, SAS, Seals/ Delta...

Personally I think SAS are the hardest because most of them are Scottish and Scottish people are nutters. But then again Mossad have epic H2H combat skills and tactics. Spetznaz are hardcore. Also I hear the French Foreign Legion is pretty badass.
TheVoice88
Profile Joined August 2011
Norway23 Posts
November 27 2011 18:27 GMT
#220
I did my one year conscription in Norway at Forsvarets Spesialkommando (FSK), which is the elite anti-terror military branch in the Norwegian Army. Without going into detail, from what I saw and from what I experienced I got the impression that the guys who were 'spesialjegere' (elite operators) were extremely competent and confident in what they were doing. Of course, I have no way of comparing their capabilities to others though. If I were to say one group that is the most elite my vote would go to 1st SFOD-D, Delta Force.
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