RusCan2013
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I found this picture while surfing online
It's apparently a Russian paramilitary police unit, but it's really weird: I have never seen such a camouflage pattern on any such unit over there that I can think of. The vehicle fits, many of them ride in armored GAZ Tigr trucks.
But the camos I cannot place at all.
Here are some:
OMON
OMON special unit (such as "Zubr", "Vityaz", etc, like, police specnaz)
SOBR (like SWAT)
Quite frankly, the only agency in Russia that actually has camouflage and gear somewhat resembling the one in the first photo is the FSB, their specnaz units, like the legendary "Alfa"
But the color is all wrong and why would Alfa be riding in a Ministry of Internal Affairs vehicle: the MVD and the FSB hate each other, going back to the 1970s, when drunk cops illegally arrested and then ended up murdering a KGB officer in Moscow, setting of an inter-agency war for years which still simmers today. In February 2012, for example, in Novosibirsk, was a brutal bar brawl between some local SOBR guys just returned from a tour of duty in North Caucasus, and a group of off-duty FSB agents. One FSB guy was killed and one seriously hurt, I think got a chair put through his head. Supposedly the FBies started it, the barman later testified here were insults traded back and fourth between the two groups of men all evening and then one of the FSB guys sprayed something at the SOBR table, tear gas or pepper spray, and a chair flew back at him and off it went.
http://police-russia.info/index.php...k-v-drake-s-policejskimi-pogib-sotrudnik-fsb/
So, yeah, no way a FSB unit would ride in an MVD vehicle lmao
Weird though... Like I said, literally never have I seen such a camouflage color or pattern not just on any MVD force, but on any Russian unit at all, internal or military... Putin gone and created something entirely new?
It's apparently a Russian paramilitary police unit, but it's really weird: I have never seen such a camouflage pattern on any such unit over there that I can think of. The vehicle fits, many of them ride in armored GAZ Tigr trucks.
But the camos I cannot place at all.
Here are some:
OMON
OMON special unit (such as "Zubr", "Vityaz", etc, like, police specnaz)
SOBR (like SWAT)
Quite frankly, the only agency in Russia that actually has camouflage and gear somewhat resembling the one in the first photo is the FSB, their specnaz units, like the legendary "Alfa"
But the color is all wrong and why would Alfa be riding in a Ministry of Internal Affairs vehicle: the MVD and the FSB hate each other, going back to the 1970s, when drunk cops illegally arrested and then ended up murdering a KGB officer in Moscow, setting of an inter-agency war for years which still simmers today. In February 2012, for example, in Novosibirsk, was a brutal bar brawl between some local SOBR guys just returned from a tour of duty in North Caucasus, and a group of off-duty FSB agents. One FSB guy was killed and one seriously hurt, I think got a chair put through his head. Supposedly the FBies started it, the barman later testified here were insults traded back and fourth between the two groups of men all evening and then one of the FSB guys sprayed something at the SOBR table, tear gas or pepper spray, and a chair flew back at him and off it went.
http://police-russia.info/index.php...k-v-drake-s-policejskimi-pogib-sotrudnik-fsb/
So, yeah, no way a FSB unit would ride in an MVD vehicle lmao
Weird though... Like I said, literally never have I seen such a camouflage color or pattern not just on any MVD force, but on any Russian unit at all, internal or military... Putin gone and created something entirely new?
