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mr_clark said:
Well, I've oly got a small part about it in "Militär Technische Hefte" about IFVs.
It says that the BMD1 is to be dropped without crew and that it worked well on many occasions.
I have read in some other WP publication that in certain manouvres in the 80s regimental sized BMD units were airdropped and that the damage rate was rather low, but that's all about it.
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about these FTX that occured in the baltic area in the '80, a spetnatz that i met during a PSO in Kosovo told me that some soldiers were killed and several other were injured in some bad weather drops, sometimes more than 50% casuality rate. He lost one brother in such exercice and his brother in law have legs paralized.
Now, i've not asked to see the corps of his brother and such events were highly classified (even if i'm convinced that they were most a show directed to batlic states, particulary toward Denmark), so i have no evidences.
cheers,
Jan