“Nobody but us!”, “There are no impossible tasks”, “Even death is not an excuse for not following an order” - the Airborne Forces of the USSR and Russia have been faithful to these mottos for all 85 years of their history. Designed for air coverage of the enemy and combat operations behind enemy lines, the Airborne Forces have always had special requirements for combat training of personnel. Especially today, when combat training is conducted twice as intensely as a year ago, and all exercises are as close as possible to a combat situation. “In case of war, guys in blue berets will be thrown into the aggressor’s mouth to tear this mouth apart!” General physical and airborne training (including parachute jumps with full combat gear, day and night, in the most difficult weather conditions), hand-to-hand combat and fire training (not only accurate, but also economical shooting, because every cartridge in the landing force is worth its weight in gold), reconnaissance and communications, camouflage and survival in extreme conditions, extreme medicine and mine demolition, tracking and crossing water barriers, combat in the city and “zelenka”, mountain and arctic training (especially relevant today, when Russia is creating special brigades to protect its interests in the Arctic) - in this manual you will find the necessary information about the entire range of airborne training, because a paratrooper must be a universal fighter!