Ivan don’t HALO…or maybe they do
Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lt. Gen Evkurov Yunus-Bek , an Ossetian who graduated from the Ryazan Airborne Command school back in 1989– back when it was Soviet– was in the drop zone over the weekend watching a VDV recon unit somewhere in the Arctic hit the silk from a reported 33,000 feet, which is about the upper practical edge of a HALO/HAHO insertion.
About as Red Dawn meets Ice Station Zebra as you can get…
Those AK-12s do look good in an arctic scheme, though
The Russians say it is the first time in their history that they have jumped from that height. Once on the ground, they carried out a simulated direct-action against an “intelligence target.”
Roll that beautiful propaganda footage. Yunus-Bek appears at about the 2:27 mark of the first video.