GSG 9
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GSG 9 der Bundespolizei is the elite police tactical unit of the German Federal Police responsible for counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, and other high-risk operations. It was established in Septembe
After the successful hostage rescue operation on Lufthansa Flight 181 at Mogadishu International Airport in 1977, a special aircraft carrying State Minister Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski and the GSG 9 commandos return to Cologne Bonn Airport.
A GSG 9 exercise in 2005
GSG 9 operators rappel on a building of the German Bundeskriminalamt.
GIGN
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The GIGN is the elite tactical unit of the French National Gendarmerie. Among its missions are counterterrorism, hostage rescue, surveillance of national threats, protection of government officials, c
GSG 9
…as breaching and demolition. Further training often involves cooperation with other allied counter-terrorism units, such as Israel's Yamam, France’s Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (GIGN) or National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Hostage Rescue Team from the United States. The GSG 9 are equipped…
Intervention Force demo
Security & Protection Force demo
Boarding of the Pascal Paoli by GIGN, on 28 September 2005. The ship had been occupied by the Corsican trade union STC.
A GIGN Security & Protection Force team extracting via helicopter during a demo in 2021