[2] During the process of its deployment, a truck carrying the bridge is backed alongside the edge of a body of water.
The bridge spans 382 metres, load capacity 20 tons, or 227 m, load capacity 60 tons, with 32 river pontoons, 12 bridging boats and four shore pontoons.
[3] The PMP was superseded by the PPS-84[4] and later the PP-91 bridge system after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
The designation PP stands for "Pontoon Park" and can be assembled into a group of rafts or a bridge spanning up to 879 ft (268 m) with a capacity from 90 to 360 tons.
[5] The latest variant of the PP-91 system is the PP-2005 which uses KamAZ 63501 trucks and BMK-MT motorboats.