Airborne combat vehicles fell on the suburb of Ulan-Ude – News Agency “Khakassia-Inform”

200 hectares of forest burn after the state of emergency due during military exercises: in landing BMD-2 parachute did not open, and combat vehicle, complete with ammunition, collapsed on the suburbs.

Academy “Khakassia-Inform»:

During the military exercises, during which were worked out, including the landing technique, one of the armored troops landed in abnormal manner.

At the BMD-2, falling under the Ulan-Ude, parachute did not open because of a broken exhaust cable:

– dangling rope that pulls the main parachute system. The car dropped onto the prepared for landing troops and equipment landing pad on it just do not have forests, which could ignite , – said the spokesman voenokruga. Also, the representative said that the war machine “ released only pilot chute with a small area of ​​the dome “. The source stressed that the BMD-2 was the ammunition, but he could not explode.

A source in the Defense Ministry said that the airborne combat vehicle can not be restored.

The area of ​​the fire is about 200 acres in the place pulled forest protection and fire reported in the Republican Forestry Agency.

“ Data declaring evacuation yet, as there is no unequivocal information about the extent of the threat transition fire at a military warehouse “- explained spokesman Alexander Egorov agency.

The exercises for the second day pass near a military garrison,” Pine Forest “. Participation in them take 500 soldiers of Ulan-Ude and Ivanovo Airborne compounds, as well as 10 units of modernized airborne combat vehicles of the second generation (BMD-2KU).