Jordan acquired at the MAKS-2015 technology platform for landing

To Lenta.ru / Armed Forces of Jordan acquired at the international air show MAKS-2015 parachute platforms P-7, designed to airdrop equipment and heavy loads. This was reported in the press release of the company “Rosoboronexport” Received “Heathcliff!”. Platforms of this type can be used with the available Air Jordan Il-76MF.

The amount of the contract and the amount of supply is not officially called. As explained “Lente.ru” experts in the defense industry, it is a modernized version of the platform P-7 under the symbol F-7M. The platform manufactured by JSC “Moscow Design and Production Complex” Universal “,” part of the holding “technodynamics” GC “Rostec” parachute technique allows mass from 3.7 to 10 tonnes from a height of 300 to 1500 meters. Also, using this platform can reset various goods and equipment in containers.

Platform family of P-7 was originally developed for use on the aircraft AN-22 and later on IL-76 and AN-124. Jordan currently has two Il-76MF, acquired in 2011 by Jordan International Air Cargo, which are regularly chartered Royal Air Force Jordan. The aircraft, which is an extended version of the Il-76MD capacity up to 60 tons, in the course of the tests and exercises in the 1990-2000-ies dropped to six platforms P-7 series.

In addition, the park is a Jordanian company IL-76, but this commercial modification of the Il-76 is not equipped for parachute landing technology platforms. Some experts also believe that Jordan could become one of the foreign customers Il-76MD-90A, serial production of which is deployed in Ulyanovsk.

Platform provider in Jordan will become the main exporter of Russian arms – the company “Rosoboronexport”. To date, the total order backlog of “Rosoboronexport” exceeds $ 40 billion, of which over $ 18 billion accounts for aviation equipment, over 9 billion – by air defenses.