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The Airmobile Operations Division (Division Luftbewegliche Operationen) is a division of the German Army. Its headquarters are based at Veitshöchheim near Würzburg. The division was founded on 1 July 2002 and became operational on 8 October 2002. ^[1] It encorporates units from various branches of the German Army. These units are stationed all over Germany. The personnel of Airmobile Operations Division consist of approximately 10.000 soldiers, 350 of which are stationed at the headquartes of the division at Veitshöchheim. Airmobile Operations Division plans, prepares and carries out deployments within the frame of stabilizing operations. It also prepares the units under its command for deployment of high intensity actions within the framework of multi-national intervention forces. The division also controls and coordinates the deployment of helicopters of these intervention forces.

Contents 1 Tasks 2 Structure 2.1 Armoured vehicles 2.2 Other vehicles 2.3 Helicopters 3 Notes 4 References 5 See also

One of the tasks of the Airmobile Operations Division is to provide staff of increased availability in order to plan and lead operations within the framework of international crisis management of NATO and the EU. Furthermore, the staff of the division also function as headquarters for manoeuvres and missions within NATO- and EU-operations. The staff personnel of the Airmobile Operations Division are also given the task to be able to deploy, equip and train several German Army Aviators Corps units for missions in various geographical locations and to hand over the command of these missions to the local command structure. Finally, staff of Airmobile Operations Division are responsible to keep available a unit of helicopters of the German Army Aviators Corps for SAR and evacuation missions. These units have to be able to respond at very short notice. ^[2]

The Airmobile Operations Division received a qualitatively new internal structure. The command of the division has been restructured. Transport helicopters are directly subordinate to it. As a consequence, the command is responsible for the co-ordination of air movements. In this way, support of special or specialized forces for SAR, evacuation and protective missions is guaranteed. Instead of a battallion of the Signal Corps and a staff company, the division has only a battallion of the Signal Corps. A unit of the Army Music Corps is also incorprated into the division. Intervention and stabilization forces are lead by the division.

Within the division, the Airmobile Brigade is responsible for the carrying out of the actual air mobile operations. The brigade contains attack helicopters, light transport helicopters and reconnaissance helicopters, as well as infantry units organically connected with the tasks assigned to the Airmobile Operations Division. The Airmobile Brigade achieves a great amount of flexibilty by assigning its forces to different categories, intervention forces, and stabilization forces. Together with an airmobile infantry regiment, these forces can provide logistics and organizational support for the intervention and stabilization forces. If necessary, other units equipped with medium transport helicopters subordinate to division command can be assigned to these forces.^[3]

A second element is the Army Forces Brigade. It consists of anti aircraft units, artillery units and anti-NBC units. These units are designed to contribute to a modular and rapid response, thereby enforcing the stabilzation brigades more flexibly.

• Airmobile Operations Division
  • Staff based at Veitshöchheim
  • Army Music Corps 12 based at Veitshöchheim
  • Army Signal Battallion 10 based at Veitshöchheim
  • Army Aviators Light Transport Helicopter Regiment 30 based at Niederstetten
  • Army Aviators Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 15 Münsterland based at Rheine
  • Army Aviators Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25 Oberschwaben based at Laupheim
  • Airmobile Brigade 1
    • Staff and Staff Company based at Fritzlar
    • Army Aviators Liaison and Reconnaissance Helicopter Squadron 100 based at Celle
    • Army Aviators Support Squadron 1 based at Holzdorf
    • Army Aviators Maintenance Squadron 100 based at Celle
    • Airmobile Infantry Regiment 1 based at Schwarzenborn
    • Army Aviators Light Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 Lüneburger Heide based at Faßberg
    • Army Aviators Attack Helicopter Regiment 26 Franken based at Roth
    • Army Aviators Attack Helicopter Regiment 36 based at Fritzlar
  • Army Forces Brigade
    • Staff and Staff Company based at Bruchsal
    • Light Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery 300 based at Hardheim
    • Tank Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battallion 12 based at Hardheim
    • Tank Artillery Reconnaissance Regiment 345 based at Kusel
    • Anti-NBC Regiment 750 based at Bruchsal
    • Light Anti-NBC Company 120 at Sonthofen

• Light air-transportable armoured fighting vehicles Wiesel 1 and Wiesel 2
• Light armoured transport vehicle Mungo

• Military vehicle Wolf

• Light transport helicopter Bell UH-1D
• Medium transport helicopter Sikorsky CH-53G/GS
• Anti-tank helicopter MBB Bo 105PAH
• Reconnaissance and liaison helicopter MBB Bo 105VBH

Procured but not yet delivered for active service have been:

• Attack helicopter Eurocopter Tiger
• Multi-role helicopter LTH NATO-HELICOPTER 90

1. ^ deutschesheer.de
2. ^ europaeische-sicherheit.de
3. ^ treff.bundeswehr.de

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• German Army
• German Army Aviators Corps

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of October 29, 2006.