List of paratrooper forces

The following is an incomplete list of paratrooper forces from around the world.

Argentina Argentina

Australia Australia

Austria Austria

Bangladesh Bangladesh

Belgium Belgium

Brazil Brazil

Brazilian Army

Brazilian Air Force

Brazilian Navy

Bulgaria Bulgaria

Canada Canada

Chile Chile

  • Chilean Army
    • 1st Parachute Battalion "Pelantaru" (1o Batallón de Paracaidistas "Pelantaru")

China China

Croatia Croatia

  • Special Forces Command (Croatia)
    • 1st Special Forces Group (Croatia)
  • Intelligence Center
  • Special Military Police Company

Czech Republic Czech Republic

Egypt Egypt

Finland Finland

France France

French Army (Armee de Terre):

French Foreign Legion (La Légion Etrangère) :

French Navy (Marine Nationale):

  • Commandos Marine: Navy component of Special Operations Command (France):
    • Commando Hubert (also named Commando d'Action Sous-Marine Hubert, CASM, "underwater operations commando"): Submarine action (combat divers).
    • Commando Jaubert: Assault at sea, exfiltration, close quarters battle at sea.
    • Commando Trepel: Assault at sea, exfiltration.
    • Commando de Penfentenyo: Reconnaissance, Intelligence Operations (recon swimmers)
    • Commando de Montfort: Long range neutralisation (missile launchers, light mortars, heavy sniper rifles), fire support designation
    • Commando Kieffer: C3I, military dogs

French Air Force (Armee de L'Air):

National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale):

Directorate-General for External Security: Division Action:

  • The Centre Parachutiste d'Entraînement Spécialisé (CPES, "Paratrooper Specialised Training Centre") in Cercottes for clandestine operations
  • The Centre Parachutiste d'Instruction Spécialisée (CPIS, "Paratrooper Specialised Instruction Centre") in Perpignan for special commandos.
  • The Centre Parachutiste d'Entraînement aux Opérations Maritimes (CPEOM, "Paratrooper Training Centre for Naval Operations") in Quelern, which instructs combat divers.

Gabon Gabon

  • 1er Régiment de Parachutistes Gabonais (1er RPG)

Germany Germany

See article Fallschirmjager

Greece Greece

Honduras Honduras

  • 2do batallon de infanteria aerotransportada (2nd airborne battalion)

Hungary Hungary

  • HDF 34th ’László Bercsényi’ Special Operations Battalion[6]
  • HDF 25/88th Light Mixed Battalion[7]
  • HDF 5/24th 'Gergely Bornemissza' Reconnaissance Battalion[8]

India India

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"Balidaan" Badge of the Para Special Forces

Indian Army

50th Parachute Brigade (India) :

  • 2 Airborne battalions
  • 1 Special Forces battalion
  • 1 Parachute Field Regiment (Artillery) (9 & 17 Parachute Field Regiments in rotation)
South Korean 500 won stamp issued in 1951 commemorating the role of the Indian 60PFA during the Korean War 1950-1953
  • 60 Parachute Field Hospital
  • 411 (Independent) Parachute Field Company (Bombay Sappers)
  • 622 Parachute Composite Company (ASC)
  • 50th (Independent) Parachute Brigade OFP (Ordnance)
  • 50th (Independent) Parachute Brigade Signal Company
  • 2 (Independent) Parachute Field Workshop Company (EME)
  • 252 (Para) Air Defence Battery
  • 50th (Independent) Parachute Brigade Provost Section.

President's Bodyguard also forms part of the brigade as the pathfinders company.

Indian Air Force

Indian Navy

RAW

  • Special Frontier Force - Special Frontier Force is the armed wing of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency.Based in Chakrata, Uttrakhand this unit currently has the strength of 10,000 active personnel.

Indonesia Indonesia

Paratroopers from the Paskhas, Indonesian Air Force
  • Indonesian Army
    • Kopassus:
      • Grup 1 Para Komando Kopassus/Eka Wastu Baladhika (id) (1st Army Special Forces Para Commando Group)
      • Grup 2 Para Komando Kopassus/Dwi Dharma Bhirawa Yudha (id) (2nd Army Special Forces Para Commando Group)
    • Kostrad:
      • Brigade Infanteri Lintas Udara 17/Kujang I (id) (17th Airborne Infantry Brigade)
      • Brigade Infanteri Lintas Udara 18/Trisula (id) (18th Airborne Infantry Brigade)
      • Brigade Infanteri Lintas Udara 3/Tri Budhi Sakti (id) (3rd Airborne Infantry Brigade)
        • 431st Para Raider Infantry Battalion
        • 432nd Para Raider Infantry Battalion
        • 433rd Para Raider Infantry Battalion
  • Indonesian Air Force

Iran Iran

Islamic Republic of Iran Army
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

Republic of Ireland Ireland

Defence Forces (Irish Army)

Israel Israel

98th Paratroopers Division (Reserve and Regular)
Other Brigades
Commando Units
  • Special Forces Deep Penetration Demolition Unit 212 "Maglan"/"Ibis", Oz Brigade
    • Special Forces Anti-Aircraft Parachuting Unit 7298 "YANMAM", Maglan, Oz Brigade
  • Guerilla Warfare Unit 621 "Unit Egoz", Oz Brigade
  • Desert Warfare Unit 845 "Rimon", Oz Brigade
  • Special Undercover "Mista'arvim" Unit 217 "Duvdevan"/"Cherry", Oz Brigade
  • Special Operations Engineering Unit "Yahalom (IDF)"/"Diamond", Israeli Combat Engineering Corps
    • Combat Engineering Commando - Sayeret "Yael"/"Ibex"
Elite Units
Airborne and Special Training center "Marhom"
  • Airborne Training and Supply center
    • Airborne Jump School
    • Airborne Supply Unit
  • Counter Terror School and other Special Training base "Mitkan Adam"/"Adam Facility"
Other Airborne Qualified Units
  • Aircraft Landscape and Desert specialist Unit 5700 "Yahak"

Italy Italy

Italian paratroopers are called Paracadutisti.

Japan Japan

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Jordan Jordan

Royal Jordanian Army
  • 30th Hussein Bin Ali Special Mission Brigade
    • 15th Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Special Mission Battalion (Para)
    • 16th King Faisal Special Mission Battalion (Para)
    • 20th Tariq Bin Zyad Special Mission Battalion (Para)

Malaysia Malaysia

Mongolia Mongolia

Mexico Mexico

Nepal Nepal

  • Nepalese Army
    • Shree Bhairavnath Battalion 1910 - (Parachute Battalion)

Netherlands Netherlands

Poland Poland

Philippines Philippines

Philippine Air Force
Philippine Army Special Operations Command
Philippine Marine Corps

Portugal Portugal

Portuguese Army

Rhodesia Rhodesia

Russia Russia

Russian paratroopers stand at attention during an exercise in Central Asia
Russian armed forces
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
Various Specnaz units

Serbia Serbia

South Africa South Africa

Spain Spain

  • Spanish Army
  • Spanish Air Force
    • Escuadrón de Apoyo al Despliegue Aéreo - Air Deployment and Support Squadron (EADA)
    • Escuadrón de Zapadores Paracaidistas - Parachute Sapper Squadron (EZAPAC)

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Sweden Sweden

Swedish Army

Fallskärmsjägarna (Parachute Rangers)

Särskilda operationsgruppen Special Operations Group

31st Airborne Battalion

Switzerland Switzerland

Syria Syria

Taiwan Taiwan (Republic of China)

  • Republic of China Army
    • Aviation and Special Forces Command (航空特戰司令部)
      • 3 Air Cavalry/Airborne brigades

Thailand Thailand

Turkey Turkey

Ukraine Ukraine

Insignia of the Ukrainian airmobile forces

United Kingdom United Kingdom

United States United States

U.S. paratroopers in a plane before jumping

Joint Service Units

  • Joint Communications Unit (JCU)
  • Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE)
    • Headquarters Support Squadron (HSS)
    • Communications Support Detachment (CSD)
    • 1st Joint Communications Squadron (1st JCS)
    • 2nd Joint Communications Squadron (2nd JCS)
    • 3rd Joint Communications Squadron (3rd JCS)
    • 4th Joint Communications Squadron (4th JCS)
    • 224th Joint Communications Support Squadron (224th JCSS)
    • 290th Joint Communications Support Squadron (290th JCSS)

Venezuela Venezuela

  • Venezuelan Army
    • 42nd Infantry Paratrooper Brigade (42a Brigada Paracaidista de Infanteria)

Vietnam Vietnam

Vietnamese Paratroops insignia

References

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  2. ↑ https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bmlv.gv.at/sk/lask/brigaden/jgbrig7/baon/jgb25.shtml&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522J%25C3%25A4gerbataillon%2B25%2522%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2006-43,GGGL:en Hunter Battalion 25
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  4. ↑ http://www.army.dnd.ca/3PPCLI/
  5. ↑ http://www.qor.com/orbat/60th.html
  6. ↑ Special Operation Forces Of Hungary: Is A Transformation Necessary? p. 47 Retrieved on 2015-03-16.
  7. ↑ Special Operation Forces Of Hungary: Is A Transformation Necessary? p. 57 Retrieved on 2015-03-16.
  8. ↑ Special Operation Forces Of Hungary: Is A Transformation Necessary? p. 66 Retrieved on 2015-03-16.
  9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_Regiment_(India)
  10. ↑ http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/602326/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%BE-%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82
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  24. 1 2 http://www.militaryforums.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21757#.WN-O5TsrKM8
  25. 1 2 http://www.eliteukforces.info/parachute-regiment/patrols-platoon/
  26. ↑ http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/regiments/24671.aspx
  27. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/fatalities/lance-bombardiers-ross-clark-and-liam-mclaughlin-killed-in-afghanistan
  28. 1 2 http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/units/28644.aspx
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