It will feature enhanced lifting capacity of up to 18 tonnes
MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. The latest multi-purpose parachute platform with enhanced lifting capacity is being developed for Russian paratroopers, Chief of the Airborne Force Command’s Airborne Training Department Colonel Vladimir Kvash told the Defense Ministry’s newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda on Wednesday.
Read also As the Airborne Force is being rearmed with new types of wheeled combat hardware, a standardized multi-purpose parachute platform UMPP is being developed for parachuting military equipment and cargoes with a flight weight of up to 18 tonnes, the colonel said.
Simultaneously, work is underway to develop controlled cargo parachute systems of various lifting capacity for parachuting cargoes to the designed area with high accuracy, he added.