5th Special Operations Regiment (Slovakia)

PŠU (literally 5th Special Purpose Regiment) is based in Žilina, and serves as the Slovak Armed Forces primary counter-terrorism and special operations unit.

The unit is the main component of the newly created Special Operations Forces (SK SOCOM).

Each special purpose detachment has four ten-man teams composed of two officers, two medics, a radio operator, two snipers, an engineer, an operator, and a technician.

PŠU regularly trains with western special operations units, including the US Army's 10th Special Forces Group and the French 1er RPIMa.

Pluk špeciálneho určenia has increasingly adopted western special forces techniques and equipment, and has, in recent years, been a participant in the EUFOR Althea, and since 2011 within ISAF War in Afghanistan (2001–2021).