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Azerbaijani Special Forces
Active	2001-Present
Country	Azerbaijan
Branch	Azerbaijani Navy
Type	Commando

The Azerbaijani Special Forces (Template:Lang-az) are the special operations unit of the Azerbaijani Navy. In 2001, Azerbaijan created the special forces unit which was established with cooperation with the Turkish Navy. The 641st Special Warfare Unit of the Azeri Navy has conducted joint training with United States Navy SEALs from SEAL Team 2.

The training and organisation structure of the Tigers is similar to Turkish special forces, Su Altı Taarruz and American Special Forces who have close training relationships with them. The first Tiger units were in Ganja following a joint training program with Turkey.

Roles and tasks

The special forces undertake a number of roles, with a degree of interaction and interoperability:

• Counter-terrorism
• Covert Reconnaissance
• Special reconnaissance
• Direct Action
• Close Protection
• Counter Revolutionary Warfare
• Infrastructure disruption
• Capture of subjects of interest
• Human intelligence (HUMINT) collection
• Defence Diplomacy

External links

• Promotional/Training video of unit

References

1. Donna Mills, Navy Special Ops Demos Training in Azerbaijan, American Forces Press Service, June 10, 2004

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Assets of the Ministry of Defence	General Staff Special Forces of Azerbaijan Military Band Service Ministry of Defence Industry
Land Forces	1st Army Corps HQ: Barda 2nd Army Corps HQ: Beylagan 3rd Army Corps HQ: Shamkir 4th Army Corps HQ: Baku Nakhchivan Garrison HQ: Nakhchivan 6th Army Corps 777th Special Forces Regiment Peacekeeping forces List of equipment
Air Force	Air Defence Troops Bases Nasosnaya Kyurdamir Dollyar Baku Kala Sitalchay List of modern equipment
Navy	641st Special Warfare Naval Unit Marine Infantry Coast Guard Underwater Offence
Paramilitary agencies	Internal Troops National Guard State Border Service State Security Service Foreign Intelligence Service YARASA
Education	National Defense University War College Higher Military Academy Jamshid Nakhchivanski Military Lyceum Heydar Aliyev Military Lyceum Higher Naval Academy
Wars and conflicts	World War I Battle of Baku (1918) Russian Civil War Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920) Sovietisation (1920) Invasion of Armenia (1920) World War II First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1991–1994) Four-Day War (2016) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (2020)
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