Talk:Airborne forces

First known airborne command company
Hello writer:

I had to use Google to translate.

This is translated from the German Wikipedia, maybe it will be useful for you:

The first known airborne command company in military history was carried out by Rudolf Windisch and Maximilian von Cossel from October 2 to 3, 1916. Lieutenant von Cossel was deposed by Vice Sergeant Windisch southwest of Rowno by plane (Roland C.II). Cossel interrupted the Rowno-Brody railway line by blowing up several times and after 24 hours he was picked up again by Windisch by plane.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftlandeoperation

Soviet Airborne
I've popped some stuff on here about the Soviet Airborne forces during the Cold War; they were the world's biggest and had extensive combat experience in Afghanistan. My source is Steven J. Zaloga, an American expert on the Warsaw Pact.Andyana 16:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Operation Varsity, New User
Hi. I've just finished doing a Second-Year University Dissertation on Airborne Forces In WWII, and would love to help here. I added a reference to the Max Hastings quote in the Varsity section. It can be seen in the html of the article, but not the actual page. I can do a lot more here, but I've no idea how to complete references so they show up. Sorry :)  Skinny87

Editing Article, Adding Citations
I'm going to try and work on this article in the next few weeks and add citations, although I'll primarily be focusing on World War II operations and anything before that period. Skinny87 20:02 19 April 2008
 * I know that it's a rather lengthy list I just added to 'Further Reading', but does anyone have any objections or comments to it being there? Skinny87 (talk) 18:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Soviet and Russian VDV
The article says that the VDV consisted (consists) of almost exclusively Slavic individuals. Would there be a source for that? I know for a fact that this isn't true today. If nobody provides a source for this claim, I will remove it. 75.170.70.1 (talk) 22:11, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Uncited Works
There is a long list of uncited books in 'further reading' & web sites in 'External Links'. If they are not worth citing they should be deleted. Graeme374 (talk) 05:15, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Heroes of Kolwezi
In the post-WW2 section, there is no mention of 2REP drop into Kolwezi, Zaire, May 1978. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kolwezi Antares.press (talk) 09:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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VDV assault on Hostomel
The VDV landed on Hostomel with helicopters and re-inforced by over-land columns. There's no evidence of parachutes being used in this operation. It seems the idea was to take the airport by helicopter, and then landing additional forces on the airstrip. When that failed, VDV forces drove into Hostomel overland and were annihiliated by Ukrainian forces (special forces, territorial volunteers and artillery).

Here's the point I removed:

82.194.220.91 (talk) 10:34, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * On February 24, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian paratroopers from the 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade captured Hostomel Airport on the outskirts of Kyiv, following back-and-forth fighting. Russian forces subsequently retreated on 28 March. The Russian Airborne Forces received high casualties during the war up to the point that the branch commander Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov was fired on 18 June.