MOSCOW. Oct 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Nearly 40,000 servicemen made parachute jumps in the tactical training in 2011.
"Military transport aircraft airdropped over 39,000 servicemen and more than 135 parachute platforms," Defense Ministry representative Vladimir Drik told Interfax-AVN on Monday.
Not a single exercise of military transport aircraft is held without airdropping servicemen and hardware of the Russian Airborne Forces, he said.