Russian IRP-BS 2016 Special Diet

[FREMONT]

Is this a new type of russian ration? I've only seen the IRP's and the occasional mountain ration. Would this be given to special forces? Neat find by the way!

Not sure if totally new or just new to me.

It could be special forces, or as gundog suggested flight crews.

I kind of lean to flight crew since the outer packaging is kind of flimsy and i dont think special forces guys are getting by on 1 of these a day, calorie wise, an air crew member would.

Seems like the flight crews would need a decent amount of water to re-hydrate their food. Then again, with planes like these~

Il-76

Tu-95

Tu-22m3

~it won't be much of a problem.

Now that I think about it, it could also be for vehicle crewmen. More specifically, armored vehicles. Like tanks, IFV's, APC's, and what have you not.

[SNiiP3R]

That's something else, not for aviation.

Russian Aviation MRE's are called RPASV or "РПЭСВ" in Russian. The ration box is almost as twice as big as all other Russian rations, and heavier too.
I believe the Aviation MRE's are all 5,000+ calories. You can basically eat that thing for 2 days. Like many, it consist of breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus the snacks.

Here is the video of one, 1. Unbloxing and breakfast, 2. Lunch, 3. Dinner

[housil]

Great find, thx for sharing and the info

[FREMONT]

Thanks for the info! It's a bit funny thinking about a Russian bomber pilot sipping a juice box when he's thousands of meters up bombing Syrian rebels and ISIS targets

[prado67]

RPESV quite old ration, in that sense that in the Air Force he is used for a long time. Now bombings of terrorists of ISIS strategic bombers happen from the territory of Russia therefore our pilots should fly several hours to one party and several hours in another. But I doubt that they eat only these rations. It seems to me they with itself take a lot of tasty except rations.

[prado67]

And concerning IRP-BS I managed to find information that this ration was developed for special divisions, type of aviation spotters, artillery tipper-ofs and special troops. Which task to be mobile and fast, but isn't the whole a lot of food. Especially as such people are very limited on weight and it is more important to them to take as much as possible cartridges and the special equipment.
By the way I have several such IRP-BS.

[Name_not_found]

Thank you very much for all of the information!

[BlackDogBob]

A buddy of mine that has trained with several special units from Tussia and other countries told me he has seen these rations when training with Russian Forward Observers. These guys are kinda like Force Recon units.

[FREMONT]

Awesome info! It never dawned on me that this would be a specialized ration for units such as (or equal to, respectfully) forward observers and others.

[parafireboy]

Very cool, thanks for the info!