Picture of Il-76 RF-78777 at Millerovo air base with resting soldiers from 234 pdp (air landing regiment). The picture is taken around 18 august during an end of an exercise with 12 Il-76 and over 2000 soldiers and 12 vehicles. Some of them Strela-10.
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The aircraft is normally based at Pskov Kresty and the soldiers is also from Pskov. The exercise is a validiation exercise.
The VDV soldiers are to be doubled during before 2019, and perform a new type of use.
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