New armored vehicle airdropped WITH crew during 'historic' drills (PHOTOS).
The Russian military has successfully tested a new airmobile armored personnel carrier during large-scale drills in central Russia. The APC was parachuted with a crew onboard – a daring technique used only by Russian troops. Over 200 armored vehicles and some 2,500 servicemen took part in the joint drills of Transport Aviation and Airborne Troops, which concluded on Friday. One highlight of the exercise was the airdrop of a new APC – complete with a crew on board.
"The drills went well. The personnel is ready to carry out combat missions. The airdrop of the BTR-MDM with the test crew inside is a historic event," chief of Military Transport Aviation Lieutenant General Vladimir Benediktov told reporters. No other military in the world has successfully implemented the risky technique, instead of parachuting vehicle crews separately from their machines.
Russia doesn't value the lives of its servicemen very highly.
Jose Smith
>Dropping vehicles with a crew inside allows them to get combat-ready within minutes after the airdrop. Nigga what? You should be combat ready before even touching the ground. This garbage could never pass the combat standards of my country.
Josiah Collins
"Would anyone expect the transgender soldiers of the western culture do this,..."
no shit. helps that we have conscription. when i was in the military i did ntohing but dig ditches though
Henry Ramirez
They wouldn't do it if the losses were unacceptable.
War is hell and people die to stupid shit. The benefit here is being able to quickly deploy and maneuver with armored vehicles instantly. Instead of a couple hours, maybe even days, spent collecting the vehicles and getting them working.
Bentley Cooper
yes, but if the parachutes fail, you're only out one APC instead of an APC and an entire rifle squad
Colton King
our rifle squads are very dispensable though
Gavin Lopez
so does you country air drop vehicles without parachutes then?
Brody Martin
>parrachute separately >something goes wrong >you may lose somebody or the vehicle >parrachute inside apc >something goes wrong >you now have a tuna can full of SOUKA BLIAT
Because their entire logistic branch is made of dindus and brown people. Here's the result: youtu.be/nPCxy3RiN_k
Oliver Jenkins
Very cowards, BASEd op giving us the finger!!
Aiden James
Completely pointless.
Right now the superior doctrine is to establish air superiority by overwhelming force and once you obliterate all relevant ground targets by precision strikes and render the entire enemy chain of command and logistics into fine dust you THEN roll in with your ground forces simply to secure land.
