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For more than 25 years the “Advanced Technologies and Services” company experts have been successfully working in the field of load airlift delivery using parachute drop and free-drop procedures. The company possesses technology of an optimum combination of both ways airlift delivery of loads in flight and has the unique equipment certificated in Il’ushin Design Bureau for Il-76 aircraft and in Antonov Aviation Center for An-12 aircraft.

Heads and experts of the company are professional instructors of paraborne training have a huge experience (23-31 year) on load airlift delivery and technics during the service in airborne forces and after retirement.

Experts of the company “Advanced technologies and service” have organized and carried out:
• In 1986, parachute air-dropping to polar stations;
• In 1990, parachute air-dropping on an ice floe near the North Pole of equipment (a bulldozer and auger based on the DT-75 tractor weighing 8,500 kg) for the construction of an ice airfield in the interests of Sevmorgeology;
• In 1991, parachute air-dropping of 8 platforms with a carrying capacity of up to 7.5 tons with equipment and cargo on the island. Bolshevik;
• In 1993, parachute (from a height of 7000 m) and non-parachute free air-dropping in Angola;
• In 1994 – parachute-free air-dropping of cargo in bagged containers in the Sudan under the UN International Food Program (UN WFP) (over three months, one IL-76 aircraft dropped more than 2,000 tons of food; cargo recovery rate was 97%);
• In 1997, food was parachuted into the northern regions of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. 54 tons of food were delivered from Novosibirsk to the villages of this region (Batagai-Alyta, Saskylakh) without landing; cargo recovery rate was 98%;
• In 1998 – parachute drop of food in Sudan under the UN International Food Program (UN WFP) without dropping the pallets on which the cargo was placed. The technology of reusing pallets has been introduced – up to 300 drops each. Over 5 months, 2 X IL-76 aircraft dropped more than 11,000 tons of cargo; cargo recovery rate was 97%;
• 2003 – a one-year contract for the air-dropping of cargo in Sudan and Kenya under the UN International Food Program (UN WFP);
• 2005 – a one-year contract for the air-dropping of cargo in the. Sudan and Kenya under the UN International Food Program (UNWFP);
• 2005 – test for parachute air-drop of vegetable oil in the Sudan; cargo recovery rate was 98%;
• In November 2005 – air-dropping 168 X 200-liter barrels of fuel in Antarctica to Vostok station from an Il-76 aircraft; cargo recovery. rate was 100% (wind speed at the ground – up to 9 m/s);
• 2006 – a two-year contract for the air-dropping of cargo in the Sudan and Kenya under the UN International Food Program (UN WFP), cargo recovery rate was 100%;
• In March 2006 – two fuel drops in 200-liter barrels to the North Pole from an An-12 aircraft; cargo safety was 100% (wind speed near the ground – 10-15 m/s);
• In December 2006 – two fuel drops in barrels in Antarctica at Vostok station from an Il-76 aircraft; cargo recovery rate was 100% (wind speed near the ground on the first drop was up to 9 m/s, on the second drop up to 2 m/s);
• In January – March 2007 – parachute air-drop of food in the Sudan under the UN international program; cargo recovery rate was 100%;
• In April 2007 – air-dropping of combined cargo (fuel, life equipment, heavy equipment – tractor, snowmobile, food) on P-7 platforms for the international drifting expedition TARA ARCTIC (North Pole); cargo recovery rate was 100%;
• In October – November 2007 – parachute drop of food in Uganda under the UN international program; cargo recovery rate was 100%;
• November 16-17, 2007 – two fuel drops at Vostok station from an Il-76 aircraft; cargo recovery rate was 100%;
• On December 2, 2007, the NTV channel broadcast the “Aviators” program, which is entirely dedicated to the fuel dump we performed at the Vostok station, Antarctica (November 16 – 17, 2007);
• On November 17, 2008, in Antarctica, an Il-76 aircraft delivered 168 barrels of fuel to Vostok station. The second drop delivered 200 barrels of fuel to point FD-83. The drop was experimental, for the first time the flight weight of each platform was at least 1,650 kg, 8 barrels per platform
• During the period from October 29 to December 9, 2009, food was dropped without parachute in the Republic of Sudan (El Obeid) under the UN international food program using IL-76 aircraft. During this time, 2,085 tons of cargo were delivered. Recovery rate was 100%.
• From April to December 2009, food was dropped without parachute in the Republic of Uganda (Gulu) under the UN international food program using An-12 aircraft. 2,830 tons dropped. Recovery rate 100%.
• During the period from October 29 to November 24, 2009 in Antarctica, an Il-76 aircraft made two fuel drops in barrels onto FD-83 (an intermediate fuel depot between the South Pole and Novolazarevskaya station), the recovery rate of the cargo was 100%.
• In November 2010, a parachute fuel drop was carried out for the first time at the South Pole. Over two flights, the Il-76 delivered 352 barrels with a capacity of 200 liters each of Jet-A fuel 20 km away. Amudnsen-Scott station area (USA).
• In January 2011, cargo air-drops were carried out under a government program in the Republic of Sudan. During two IL-76 flights, 70 tons of cargo were dropped, recovery rate of cargo was 100%.
• On December 1-2, 2011, in Antarctica, 424 barrels of fuel were dropped from an IL-76 aircraft to point FD-83, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• On December 1, 2012, in Antarctica, 176 barrels of fuel and additional technical cargo were dropped from an IL-76 aircraft to the ABOA-WASA point, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• On December 1, 2013, a parachute drop was performed in Antarctica; 200 barrels of fuel were dropped, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• During the period from February 28, 2014, an annual contract under the UN International Food Program (UN WFP) for the parachute drop of food in the Republic of South Sudan.
• During the period from February 28, 2014, an annual contract under the UN International Food Program (WFP) for the parachute drop of food in the Republic of South Sudan.
• In 2015 -2016 our Company provided certified equipment and specialists for work on Il-76 aircraft for the parachute-free drop of humanitarian cargo in the interests of UN WFP on the territory of the Republic of South Sudan from four aircraft of the TransAviaExport Company (Belarus) and four aircraft of the AbakanAir Company (Russia) with cargo recovery rate of 98 %.
• Since February 2016, our Company has provided parachute dropping from an Il-76 aircraft of the AbakanAir Company for humanitarian aid in the interests of UN WFP in the Republic of Syria, Deir Ez-Zor, more than 2,000 cargoes weighing 800-900 kg or more were dropped, 3,107,000 kg delivered. food and medicine with cargo recovery rate off 98%.
• During 2017 specialists of the company “Advanced Technologies and Service” on four aircraft of the company “Abakan-Air” and four aircraft of the company “TransAviaExport” continue to work on the delivery of humanitarian cargo in a non-parachute way (our company’s technology) under the UN WFP program in Africa, the recovery rate of cargo was at least 98 %.
• During 2017, until September 1, specialists from the Advanced Technologies and Service company, under the UN WFP program in the Syrian Arab Republic, delivered food and medicine by parachute from an altitude of 5.000 m. 136 sorties were made over 8 months, 2,830,200 kg of cargo was delivered to residents of Deir Ezzor, with a cargo recovery rate of at least 98%.
• On November 9, 2018, specialists from the Advanced Technologies and Service company in Antarctica, from the ice airfield of the Russian Novolazarevskaya station, air-dropped fuel under the international program “DROMLAN”, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• On November 29, 2018, specialists from the Advanced Technologies and Service company in Antarctica, from the ice airfield of the Russian Novolazarevskaya station, dropped fuel (192 barrels) to point FD-83, according to the international program “DROMLAN”, cargo recovery rate was 100%
• In 2019, specialists from the Advanced Technologies and Service company, together with the TransAviaExport airline, continued to work on the delivery of humanitarian cargo without parachute (our company’s technology) under the UN WFP program in Africa, cargo recovery rate was at least 97%.
• On January 27, 2020, specialists from the company “Advanced Technologies and Service”, in Antarctica, from the ice airfield of the Russian station “Novolazarevskaya”, air-dropped. fuel (168 barrels) to the new point “Gould Bay Cache” in the interests of the ALE company, cargo recovery Rate was 100 %.
• On January 29-31, 2021, specialists of the Advanced Technologies and Service company, in Antarctica, from the ice airfield of the Russian Novolazarevskaya station, made three fuel air-dropping flights (200 barrels each) in the interests of the English stations Eagle, Hailey, according to international program “DROMLAN”, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• In 2021, specialists from the company “Advanced Technologies and Service” on two aircraft of the Belarusian company “TransAviaExport” continued to work on the delivery of humanitarian cargo in a free air-dropping way (our company’s technology) under the UN WFP program in Africa (South Sudan), the recovery rate of cargo was at least 98 %.
• In December 2021, in Antarctica, from the ice airfield of the Russian Novolazarevskaya station, three fuel drop flights (200 barrels each) were made in the interests of the English stations Eagle, Hailey, under the international program “DROMLAN”, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• In November – December 2021, in Africa (CAR), supplies were dropped (supply, food, water) for Wagner groups, cargo recovery rate was 100%.
• In February 2022, rescue parachutes for helicopter pilots of Wagner groups were stowed.
• During the period from December 11 to December 21, 2022, seven drops were made in Antarctica from an Il-76 aircraft (200 barrels each) in the interests of the English stations Eagle, Hailey, under the international program “DROMLAN”, cargo recovery rate was 100%.

Period of Operations: from 04/10/2016 to 09/30/2017.
The systems manufactured by our company were used parachutes were dropped – 1,753 sets, the total payload mass was 1,490.05 tons. The nature of the cargo – food, medicine, cargo recovery rate was 98%.
Canadian systems dropped 5,824 sets, the total payload mass was 4,076.8 tons, the nature of the cargo was food, the safety of the recovery rate was 50% due to the technical characteristics of the Canadian systems (small dome area, too high descent speed – 30 m/s – NATO in fact, they simply disposed of their useless systems).
In total, during the above period, 348 sorties were made, 5,566.85 tons of food and medicine were delivered.