79th Airmobile Brigade (Ukraine)
The 79th Airmobile Brigade (Ukrainian: 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. Until summer of 2007 the Brigade was a Regiment. In 2008 the Brigade is being manned by contract soldiers.
Soldiers from the Brigade have served as peacekeepers in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Kosovo, Sierra Leone.
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