Kazakh airborne soldiers conquer the Himalayas

ASTANA – Corporals Balzhan Mussatayeva and Marzhan Sairanova of the Kazakh Airborne Forces performed complex parachute jumps from 3,200 meters above sea level in the foothills of the Himalayas on October 9 during exercises KazInd 2024, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported.

Both soldiers performed best in parachute jumps for precise landings in a confined area under difficult high-altitude conditions.

Kazakh female soldiers demonstrate a high level of training and combat readiness. Photo credit: Kazakh Ministry of Defense

Sairanova, who works as a combat medic, shared that precision jumping is one of the oldest and most difficult forms of skydiving.

As an inexperienced skydiver, she showed impressive results despite being new to international training. Mussatayeva, on the other hand, recently received the title of parachute instructor and has performed over a hundred jumps using various types of parachute systems.

The KazInd 2024 exercises, which will take place from September 30 to October 13 at the Surya training center near the city of Auli in northern India, will include joint anti-terrorism tasks and the exchange of mountain training experiences between the Kazakh and Indian contingents.