The airborne troops of Russia will conduct an experimental exercise with the release of a mobile hospital with equipment by parachute from aircraft.
"For the first time in world practice, a full-fledged military hospital of an airborne unit will be parachuted from heavy military transport aircraft," the information department of the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The military reported that the mobile hospital of the Ivanovo Airborne Division will be landed along with equipment, supplies, medical equipment and engineering equipment.
This exercise will be held on behalf of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Ivanovo and Kostroma regions, the report says.
Of the 17 Il-76MD aircraft, about 160 medical personnel of the airmobile hospital from among contract servicemen, 14 units of automotive and armored vehicles, as well as 25 platforms with shock-sensitive medical and engineering equipment will be parachuted, the Defense Ministry said.
"After the landing and the collection at the landing site in the field, the premises of the pneumatic-frame tents of the main functional units of the airmobile hospital will be fully deployed and the reception of patients will be organized," Interfax quotes the message of the Ministry of Defense.
