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See the Flying Church the Russian Military Reportedly Can Parachute Into War Zones

The Russian military has reportedly created one of the world’s most innovative churches. The unique house of worship can allegedly be parachuted into battle zones to provide worship services to military personnel. It may very well be the world first flying, parachuting church — and with some pretty astounding amenities (not to mention paratrooper priests).

Russian Military Reportedly Creates Church That Can Be Parachuted Into War Zones

According to Russia Today (RT), these churches consist of an army tent, mini-theater, diesel power source, air conditioner and a refrigerator — all of the elements needed to comfortably enjoy the worship process. The chapel is apparently put on the ground with an airborne platform that is typically used for heavy military equipment. RT continues:

As heated debate continues in the Russian government over rearmament and military spending, some enterprising army officials have found a way out. The airborne church is reportedly needed because there are special sacraments in the Orthodox Church that demand a substantial number of utensils.

Now, here’s the real kicker. In addition to offering army personnel with a parachuting church, it seems chaplains will also be asked to take part in military training this month.

According to RT, “They will not only practice parachute jumping, but also study the construction of a platform carrying the brand new airborne church.” The Sun adds, “The priests will undergo a week‘s intensive training in Russia’s Ryazan region before parachuting in to areas of conflict.”

There’s no official word regarding when this alleged church project will be fully operational, but reports indicate that it may soon be ready for use.

(H/T: Huffington Post)

Comments (55)

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  • MrUglyAmerican
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:08pm

    They could make one for DC to drop on the White House but it would have to be a mini-mosque and not a Christian chapel!

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  • Salamander
    Posted on March 19, 2012 at 12:43am

    Are you SURE that isn’t a 3-holer and shower?

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on March 17, 2012 at 6:43am

    Now if only Putin’s feet were sticking out, wearing ruby slippers.

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  • marycozzens
    Posted on March 17, 2012 at 3:07am

    Hey, drop loads of churches all over every war zone………. prayer can move mountains!

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  • rl
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:53pm

    SEE THE FLYING CHURCH THE RUSSIAN MILITARY REPORTEDLY CAN PARACHUTE INTO WAR ZONES

    I guess they don’t have an ACLU…..

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    • MistyBlueAngel
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:35am

      Don’t worry, they will soon enough. The cancer of aggressive atheism + litigation + strong desire to tell everyone else what’s good for them eventually spreads to every free society to kill it.

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  • teddlybar
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 5:41pm

    LOL! This puts a whole new twist on the Word of God descending from on high.

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  • Trance
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 5:19pm

    Looks like a gypsy trailer.

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  • judyaz
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:30pm

    “Look up. Your redemption draws nigh.”

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  • Bro. Chuck
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:07pm

    If it raises curiousity & draws a crowd, I would think a lot of “mobile evangelists” would prefer to trailer that along instead of tryin to set up an old-fashioned “tent meetin’”……

    I wouldn’t mind going mobile with one of those……
    or even just setting it up in the woods as a “prayer closet”…..

    Baruch Ha Shem!

    Bro. Chuck

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 2:28pm

      My question is whether the priests will be adequately trained to perform the Eucharist at 8000 feet in a cloud of flak for those hairy Sabbath combat drops. Well, will they?

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  • G-WHIZ
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:24pm

    WE had MASH units “dropped-in” during the Corea Conflict(nota-war)…WE prayed in foxholes, ditches, puddles…if WE had a few seccconds to apare, we’d use a large tent. We(us) had afew neighbors from WW-2, and the Korean-war…some of the real-stories I heard…gotta ge my eyes fixed…the’re leaking, again… .[:o(

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  • Bro. Chuck
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:10pm

    So, if one of these were to be picked up by one of the latest nasty twisters we been seeing here…..

    and “strategically” deposited on the south lawn of the White House….

    Just as Barry O was outside practicin‘ his puttin’…..

    as he looked up and saw it spinnin’ down onto him……

    after the crash,

    would his legs wither & curl up the same way what‘s her name’s did??????????

    then all the lil ows munchkins could come out and start singin’ & dancin!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    <);-)

    Be Bless'd Folks!

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  • GrayPanther
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:34am

    WOW! Is this the new Russia? I would like to see the test data on this one. Probably took them about a week to put decorations on a mobile home and take the picture. I would hope they don’t require the Priests to be in the box when it is dropped. It would save a parachute. If the Supreme Soviet bureau approves this it will be “mandatory” to get your ticket pinched by the Priest. What a country!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:57am

      I’m not reall sure why they need a box anyway. Our guys do services wherever they are at don’t they?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:15pm

      Obama’a… BackUp… Guard!

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  • Bearfoot
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:24am

    The Russian Orthodox Church is the only fully recognised and approved faith in Russia.

    Other‘s like Jehovah’s Witnesses are persecuted and imprisoned.
    http://www.jw-media.org/index.html

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    • Common.Cents
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:58am

      Sorry bearfoot, but i am going to have to call bullcrap on that comment. I lived as a missionary in Russia for a few years, and Jehova’s Witness was thriving. Nobody went to jail. And if they did, it was because they broke the law by not doing the correct paperwork or something like that.

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    • Bearfoot
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:18pm

      common cents, – they “broke the law by not doing the correct paperwork or something like that.”

      Did you ever do paperwork incorrectly? Should you be in prison for years as a punishment?
      As a non-JW you are not seeing what the Russian authorities and police are doing.
      You are correct though in saying JW’s are growing. In spite of the opposition.
      Matthew 24:14

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    • IndependentAmericanParty
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 2:51pm

      I served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Russia from 2006 – 2008. My church is full recognized, I promise you. But you are correct, foreign proselytizing missionaries of the Jehovah’s Witnesses church were outlawed while I was over there (as well as many foreign missionaries from other churches). Russia has a three strike and you’re out policy for foreign churches. Most churches have received their three strikes and have been kicked out. Russians who belong to those churches can preach opening, but foreigners cannot. The Jehovah’s Witnesses got one of their strikes for constantly preaching in restricted cities (I know that because I met many of them preaching in cities that were off limits to them). Pretty much all churches are persecuted. I myself was arrested in late 2006 for legally advertising for the free English club we taught. The funny thing is, the police had advised us as to where to stand to advertise! However, now I have mugshots floating around somewhere in the Russian prison system files. The FSB (police) also came and raided our house and confiscated “paraphernalia” – (our religious materials, pamphlets and movies). Fun experiences in the Soviet Union – trust me, the Soviet Union never truly fell. Anyone who believes that the USSR was actually disbanded is out of their mind.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:00pm

      Resources for review by both Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

      See here.

      Smith, Joseph Jr. – Prophecies
      http://www.utlm.org/topicalindexc.htm#Prophecies

      And here.

      Prophecy Blunders! 100 Years of Failed Watchtower prophecies
      http://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm

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    • Bearfoot
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:13am

      Doctor,

      Prophecy is found in God’s Word, the Bible.
      Should we ignore prophecy in the fear of making a mistake or figuring wrong? Or do we learn from the misunderstanding we once had and adjust our viewpoint? Knowledge is built on research and application, then in time, if we persist we can come to an accurate understanding.

      Don’t be critical of the process. Were you born with complete understandings of the world around you, or did you acquire knowledge gradually?

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    • Bearfoot
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:50am

      A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right,

      The first prophecy found in the Bible is at Genesis 3:15
      The ending words of prophecy are found in Revelation 22:18-21

      If we understand those prophecies and what they mean, then we can begin to understand all the other’s, and vice-versa. Before you condemn, try to respect the efforts of others who work and do research to understand these and all the other prophecies from Genesis through Revelation.

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on March 18, 2012 at 12:41pm

      I think that even doctors learn from their previous errors.
      What, for instance was surgery like in 1887 ?
      Even today, I think they are still learning. I hope.

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  • Bro. Chuck
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:07am

    I’d guess you could call it a lil “un-orthodox”…….
    <);-)

    hey, @RaiderNationKissArmy…….
    I can't wait to see flying mosques…..
    I heard if you send the bunkerbuster right through the front doors, you should be able to achieve a vertical lift coeficient of about hmmmmmmm 375 feet?

    my laugh for the day…..

    but seriously?

    before mosques start going airborne?
    I pray our Heavenly Father reveals His Truths….
    Salvation & Redemption through the Sacrifice of His Son, Yeshuah our Messiah….
    to all of those whose habit is to congregate therein….

    don't be deceived, brothers…..
    There IS only One Way to be restored unto YhWh,
    The ONE True God -
    God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob….

    We humbly interceed through Yeshuah's Precious Name….

    Be Bless'd in Yeshuah!

    Bro. Chuck

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    • YAHSHUARULES
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:34pm

      You are so right. I was contemplating the irony of Russia, bastion of a godless conmmunist regime parachuting churches while this administration in the free united states of America – America founded on biblical principles – is doing everything it can to take morality and conscience out of our military. Examples: removed the cross on a chapel in Afganistan that was a comfort to the people serving, and had been so long on the structure it had an outline imprinted, how about no bibles in Walter Reed, How about removing teaching “Just War Theory” by all means we can’t have a military that would respect morality., lets not forget the idea where it was voted not to condem beastiality. Open homosexuality now and not just a tolerance of perversion but an acceptance of it. It is so sad the calculated efforts to corrupt the moral fiber of our military personel. I pray that the majority regardless of branch of service are decent, moral and godly men and women who love this country and are loyal to the constitution and would not compromise it regardless of the evil that is rearing its ugly head everywhere.
      Oh and on the subject of the homosexual agenda which is to embrace every form of filth and perversion without having to deal with the morality. Here is a great paper giving an overview of what is really driving this and its history. Its all based on the lie of “born gay” redefining sodomy…

      http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/born_gay_hoax/TheBornGayHoax.pdf

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:21am

    .
    How in the world is Obama gonna top this?…………

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    • cemerius
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:47am

      By training a platoon of Gay athiests??

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    • Bot
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:24am

      Obama’s minions would never allow this. First, remove the cross on the top of the church, then all the relligious pictures, and only atheists (or Muslims) will be allowed to address the troops.

      Do we need to look to Russia to find religious liberty?

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    • PlowMan
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:12pm

      BOT, that is interesting. The Russians have a building with a cross on it that is owned by the military and put on site by government money. We can’t ever honor our dead with a cross paid for with private money! Go figure!

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  • S2S
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:20am

    …Continued from Previous Post

    A-Theist or not, I can not stand quietly by while our government dictates, to any religious group, how they should conduct themselves, any more than I could abide the sentiment so eloquently stated by Martin Niemöller “First they came for the _____ and I didn‘t speak out because I wasn’t a _____.” … “And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

    This old A-Theist is a Catholic today, and will be a Jew when need be.

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  • S2S
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:16am

    A-Theist or not, I can not stand quietly by while our government dictates, to any religious group, how they should conduct themselves, any more than I could abide the sentiment so eloquently stated by Martin Niemöller “First they came for the _____ and I didn‘t speak out because I wasn’t a _____.” … “And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

    This old A-Theist is a Catholic today, and will be a Jew when need be.

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  • S2S
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:15am

    I simply can’t ignore the irony. For 70+ years the USSR did all it could to abolish any form of religion in their lands. Within 20 years from the fall of the Soviet Union, It’s now raining churches in Russia, while our current administration is doing everything it can to minimize U.S. churches and their authority here in our lands.

    I‘m beginning to think there’s some natural law that requires a world balance of freedom and communism – As communism is reduced in one area, it has to rise in another, to keep some odd and perverted world balance.

    As a lifelong, but soft, A-Theist I’m no fan of any superstition. I don‘t give a hoot if ’In god we trust’ is on my money – regardless of what’s stamped on my bills and coinage, its value is falling faster than the airborne Russian churches. Those four words are unlikely to save it. The ten commandments, on government, buildings don’t seem to weaken them structurally, nor do they burn my eyes out as I enter those buildings. As Tom Jefferson said so long ago, ”A man’s religion neither picks my pocket nor breaks my bones”. Well… I guess he never met a radical Muslim.

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    • S2S
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:19am

      …Continued from on Previous Post

      A-Theist or not, I can not stand quietly by while our government dictates, to any religious group, how they should conduct themselves, any more than I could abide the sentiment so eloquently stated by Martin Niemöller “First they came for the _____ and I didn‘t speak out because I wasn’t a _____.” … “And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

      This old A-Theist is a Catholic today, and will be a Jew when need be.

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    • EZDOZIT
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:49am

      Twenty years ago was a sad time for Obama’s spititual advisors. The communist infultated World Council Of Churches did nothing to help people win their religious freedoms in the former Soviet Union.Jesus came to set the captives free. Now they are trying to make free people captives to government. WWJD

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  • Peter Yohansen
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:09am

    In Soviet Russia, Church comes to you!

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  • pennswoods
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:39am

    I wonder if Russian Orthodox Military Chaplains will perform gay “marraiges” in their military chapels. I don’t think so.

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:26am

    God bless those Russians, American Catholics [the real ones] have been praying for Russia’s reigious freedom and return to Christianity for the last 50 years. looks like their prayers worked.

    even coldhearted Russia knows you need GOD in your Christian soldiers lives. — Putin sees obama hates our US Military so much he is stripping our soldiers -and America- of our Christianity.

    obama would so hate something like this military display of pro-Christianity, as he rabidly seeks to emasculate and defang the US Military.

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  • RaiderNationKissArmy
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:22am

    Wonder when we’ll get the flying mosque?

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:27am

      all of the vets in this American family already thought that same thought too!!!

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    • pennswoods
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:42am

      The Russians don’t give a crapski about political correctness.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:06am

    Can we send the “Flying Nun” Sally Field over to participate in a test drop?

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:50am

      No. Chicks whistle on the way down and super special sally will have dogs running in from all over.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:56am

    Our men and women fought and DIED to liberate the Russians and others from the throws of Communism. Now the RUSSIANS have more RELIGIOUS freedoms and capitalist millionaires than we do. As we… move TOWARD Communism? ABO 2012!

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:35am

      Russians have a 100% Russian in charge and he accepts 90%+ of Russia are Christians. he is uniting them not just militarily but thru their Faith. –he‘s not stupid enough to try to destroy Russia’s Christianity.

      America will elect a 100% AMERICAN pro-American in Nov, and that rabid snarling obama will be on a Venezuelan or Iranian plane to one of his safe houses as he flees America.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:42am

    Good PR move, now people think that the Russian military are nice religious guys. Nice work, Russian military. The battle is more than guns and bullets, its mind and hearts also.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:53am

      Well as history shows the Russians are masters of:

      Propaganda
      Paranoia
      Cloning of Putin (they gave us the bad copy called Mr Obama)

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:29am

      maybe Mr Putin has been following the anti-Christian movement obama has in full gear over here… after all, won’t God side with the CHRISTIANS who pray to him??

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