Air Mobile Protection Team
Air Mobile Protection Team |
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Lineup | 2016 |
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Armed forces | armed forces |
Armed forces | air force |
Branch of service | Infantry , property protection |
Insinuation | Air Force Command |
Location | Schortens |
Soldiers of an Air Mobile Protection Team ( AMPT ) are specialized forces for object protection in the German Air Force . Organizationally, the AMPTs are part of the Air Force Object Protection Regiment ("Friesland") from Schortens .
assignment
AMPTs protect aircraft, crew and cargo from hostile threats during the transport of people, materials or wounded in crisis countries with an unstable security situation. In addition, it is responsible for the safety of passengers on board and for VIPs (such as the Federal President or Foreign Minister on trips abroad).
The strength of an AMPT consists of four (helicopters) to eleven (transport aircraft) soldiers, one of whom always has the additional training Combat First Responder "B". Depending on the threat and deployment scenario, soldiers with additional training, such as B. as a sniper assigned.
education
The training includes a two-week training course at the Infantry Training Center in Hammelburg . As a training places that serve flight readiness of the Ministry of Defense on military part of Cologne / Bonn airport , the Lufttransportgeschwader 63 on the air base Hohn (Schleswig-Holstein) and the helicopter wing 64 in Laupheim .
Calls
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EUTM Mali
- 2016: Protection of the President's aircraft.
- United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
equipment
Hand weapons
- Rifle G36 A1 / A2 / K
- Grenade pistol / AG36
- P8 pistol
- G3 A2 ZF rifle
- G22 rifle
- G28 rifle
- G82 rifle
- G27 rifle
- MG3 machine gun
- Machine gun MG4
- Panzerfaust 3
- Grenade machine gun
- Submachine gun MP7
literature
- Rabe, Philipp: Bodyguards for fat guys . In: Y - The Bundeswehr magazine. Pp. 36-41.
Web links
- Luftwaffe.de - Property guards secure the Federal President's aircraft in Mali (February 17, 2016)
- bundeswehr.de - Protection in the desert - The property protectors at MINUSMA (Part 2) (June 27, 2016)
- luftwaffe.de - VIPs and soldiers benefit from protected air transport (23 May 2016)
- New Specialized Forces of the Bundeswehr: the Air Mobile Protection Team ( YouTube video of the Bundeswehr, July 25, 2016)
- European Air Group Annual Review 2014, p.12 - Air Mobile Protection Team (English, PDF)