The 7th Guards Mountain Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Air Assault Division is the only elite guards division of the Russian Airborne Forces responsible for mountain warfare and jungle warf
An-12 Soviet military-transport plane
2S9 Nona self-propelled artillery vehicle
The 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment is a regiment of the Russian Airborne Troops, currently part of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. It was first formed in 1973 as the 21st Air Assault
7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division
…counter-insurgency operations in the Caucasus region. On 1 December 2006 it was renamed as 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. In 2014 the division's 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment took part in the war in Donbas in Ukraine. Since February 2022 the division has been heavily engaged in the invasion of Ukraine. It successfully captured…
Soldiers of the regiment during a tactical exercise in Stavropol Krai, 2018
Tactical exercise of the 247th Guards Airborne Regiment on January 17, 2018.