Union Courage 2022 (Союзная решимость-2022) – a joint tactical exercise of Russian and Belarusian armed forces – is one of the most frequently talked-about events in the world right now. As it often happens, the […]
Last week, the naval aviation component of the Baltic Fleet received four modernized Sukhoi Su-30SM2 fighters. The aircraft were handed over to the fleet at their manufacturing plant in Irkutsk and then made a multi-kilometre […]
Nearly a year ago, we have published a photo report from a day in Khotilovo (Хотилово) air base, a home of the 790th Fighter Aviation Regiment (790-й истребительный авиационный полк). That report met with the […]
Beginning of the year is usually a great opportunity to summarise the activities taken in the past twelve months. It is no different in the military world and that´s why the Russian Aerospace Forces have […]
At the end of last year, more than forty young pilots who recently graduated from aviation schools of the Russian Aerospace Forces, have arrived to aviation regiments in the Tver area. There, within the training […]
As winter came along, it is the right time for low-temperature training flights. Personnel of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces army (6-я армия ВВС и ПВО) of the Western Military District was among […]
Another batch of Sukhoi Su-35S multirole fighters has been just received by aviation research and training centre in Lipetsk. As announced by the Russian MoD, on 13th December 2021 the new aircraft were transferred from […]
On 6th December 2021, the aviation regiment located at Chelyabinsk Shagol air force base, and being a part of the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defence (14-я армия ВВС и ПВО), celebrated […]
On 7th December, the Aviation Engineering Service – AES (Инженерно-авиационная служба) of the Air Force Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces celebrated its 105th anniversary. The first aviation-related engineering posts within the Russian armed forces […]
Sukhoi Su-25SM3 (c/n 25508110115, ´92´ red, Russian Aerospace Forces) – close air support aircraft, commonly called ´Grach´ (Грач, English: rook), NATO reporting name Frogfoot, static display at XIV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, August […]
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