Russian Airborne servicemen familiarized the Egyptian counterparts with capabilities of Russian transport aircraft in course of the Defenders of Friendship-2016, the Russian-Egyptian exercise. They demonstrated different ways of loading combat hardware into Il-76MD transport.

Moreover, Russian military servicemen informed their counterparts how to embark more than 40 types of equipment, including self-propelled guns, howitzers, special vehicles, and heavy wheeled and tracked hardware, for transporting.

The joint exercise will last until October 26. Representatives of more than 30 countries are observing the exercise.