As part of a tactical flight exercise with a military transport aviation regiment taking place in the Pskov Region, more than 1.2 thousand servicemen of the Pskov Guards Amphibious Assault Unit were landed at the Kislovo landing site.
In the evening, 12 Il-76MD aircraft with personnel on board took to the sky one after another from the Kresty airfield in Pskov. About half an hour after takeoff, the planes entered a combat course over the landing site, where more than 1.2 thousand servicemen landed on D-10 parachute systems.
The landing was carried out in two passes of 600 people from a height of 600 meters, the speed of the aircraft when paratroopers separated was more than 360 km/h and the separation interval was 0.7 seconds. The planes went in battle formations in two streams with an interval between them of about two kilometers and a time interval between the planes in the stream of about 30 seconds.
After landing, the personnel carried out the collection and worked out tactical tasks to capture the objects of the conditional enemy.
Summing up the results of the landing, the deputy commander of the Pskov Guards Airborne Assault Unit for airborne training of the Guard, Colonel Roman Samokhin, noted that the landing took place without incident, all the parachute systems worked in normal mode, which made it possible to fulfill the task facing the "winged infantry".
The D-10 parachute system is the main one in the Airborne troops and allows landing personnel in equipment, with weapons and equipment with a total weight of more than 140 kilograms.
