Advanced Parachute Training of Military Paratroopers
Wednesday, 17.7.2024 | Training
Advanced parachute training is underway for members of the 63rd Parachute Brigade who, based on their abilities and affinities, have been selected for further training at the "Sergeant-Pilot Mihajlo Petrović" military airfield in Niš.
The main goal of advanced parachute training is to train military paratroopers for free fall jumps with a special parachute, with weapons and equipment, using the techniques "high altitude - high opening" and "high altitude - low opening" and landing on small terrains with obstacles in the environment, for the execution of combat tasks.
This level of training is one of the more demanding and complex forms of training in the Serbian Armed Forces and requires considerable psychophysical effort from the participants. It consists of a theoretical part and performing jumps from heights up to 5500 meters.
For the successful completion of the training, the participants should acquire knowledge about special parachutes, about the stability of the body in free fall, meteorology, physiological and psychological stress, as well as be trained to work in an aircraft, properly carry weapons and equipment, and jump with a special parachute on small terrains.
This training creates a professional basis for upgrading the parachute skills of the members of the 63rd Parachute Brigade, and with further work, the selection of more capable paratroopers who will be main actors of combat operations with the use of special landing.
