who the best special force/elites?

[stealthattack1]

maybe, but in the battle of crete falls kinda sucked.

i wouldnt be suprised. but it is an anti terror ubit, not an assault force.

[Pac-Fish]

maybe, but in the battle of crete falls kinda sucked.

From what I know, the Fallschirmjagers were well trained but their supplies and weapons were scattered everywhere and the weapons themselves sometimes fell into enemy hands since they were paradropped in boxes. Thus the need for FG42s. But later they became defensive troops who dominated the battle field.

Falls FTW

[GodlikeDennis]

Has anyone else seen "The Eagle Has Landed"? Pretty good movie.

[SublimeSnugz]

Has anyone else seen "The Eagle Has Landed"? Pretty good movie.

LOL only saw abit off it once, was a pretty old movie as far as i remember. But since you recommend it ill try to watch it again

[Pac-Fish]

Whats it about

[SublimeSnugz]

Whats it about

German fallshirmjäger on a rogue assasination mission or something

[GodlikeDennis]

They try to capture Winston Churchill. There's some decent fight scenes for the time and Michael Caine is epic.

[TheVolskinator]

FSJ were some of the best armed-- an average US infantry company (200 men) would have 9 BARs and 2 .30 caliber MGs for it's mobile automatic firepower. It's German FSJ contemporary of about 160 men would be armed with no less then 40 MP40s or MP44s, and anywhere from 10-20 MG42s/MG34s, in addition to G43s and FG42s.

Motivation wise, Rangers take the cake. They went through some rough stuff to get as good as they did, and a Ranger battalion numbered around 200 men--the typical size of an average company (3 companies +a heavy weapons, engineering, or support company= 1 battalion).

For overall impact? The SAS, LRDG, or SOE. They sabatoged the allies' way to victory.

[jdogg]

my vote for the best SF/Elite units has to go either for JTF2 or The Devils Brigade (predecessor unit to modern JTF2).

[Pac-Fish]

Can you explain what JTF2 stands for?

[jdogg]

Joint Task Force 2, one of the canadian special forces units.

[HerrVoss]

IDK but it seems the SEALs are starting to dominate the battlefield. Experience is everything.

[jdogg]

very true that the SEALS are world class but as opposed to many other special forces units in the world such as GRU, SBS and many others the SEALS get more radio play as it were so people hear about them more same thing goes for the CIA. Due to the amount of radio play the CIA gets in popular media people think that they are the major spy agency in the US when in fact the largest is the DIA (defense intelligence agency)

[Riggsman]

My personal elite team are the guys from Sven Hassel's novels Joseph Porta, Lıttle John, Barcelona etc. Badass expandable guys who have no fear behınd enemy lınes ( Mostly in Soviet territory besides Finland ).

http://www.svenhassel.net/

[Mass Killer DL]

My personal opinion is its gotta be out of the British SAS or Russian Spetsnaz

Two bad ass special forces :p