combat aircraft

OPERATIONAL Su-25 UNITS OF THE RUSSIAN

AEROSPACE FORCES (VKS)

Command Unit Location Aircraft inventory

4th Air Force and Air Defense Army 368th Attack Aviation Regiment Budyonnovsk Two squadrons of Su-25s

4th Air Force and Air Defense Army 960th Attack Aviation Regiment Primorsko-Akhtarsk Three squadrons of Su-25s

4th Air Force and Air Defense Army 37th Composite Aviation Regiment Gvardeyskoye, Crimea One squadron of Su-25s (and Su-24s)

11th Air Force and Air Defense Army 18th Attack Aviation Regiment Chernigovka Two squadrons of Su-25s

11th Air Force and Air Defense Army 120th Composite Aviation RegimentDomna One squadron of Su-25s (and two squadrons of Su-30s)

14th Air Force and Air Defense Army 999th Aviation Base Kant, Kyrgyzstan One squadron of Su-25s

Su-25s are also assigned to the 4th National Air Personnel Preparation and Military Evaluation Center at Lipetsk (one squadron), the 195th Training Aviation

Base at Kushchyovskaya and the 209th Training Aviation Base at Borisoglebsk (with a few aircraft at each).

Current status

Single-seat versions of the Su-25 were

manufactured at the Tbilisi, Georgia,

plant between 1979 and 1992, while

two-seat examples came from the

Ulan-Ude factory in Russia between

1987 and 1992. About 1,320 Su-25s were

built and Russia currently has some 130

Su-25s in service with combat and

training units, plus dozens more in

storage. Other than the units listed in

the table, re-establishment of two

previously disbanded Su-25 regiments is

planned. The  rst is the 266th Attack

Aviation Regiment based at Step

(Olovyannaya), 94nm (175km) south-

east of Chita and approximately as far

from the Chinese border. This base is

now being thoroughly refurbished; the

runway has been lengthened and the

regiment will likely obtain Su-25s from

Domna, which is being re-equipped

with Su-30SMs. The other unit is the

899th Attack Aviation Regiment based

at Buturlinovka, about 76nm (140km)

from the Ukrainian border. This base is

currently equipped with Su-34s while

Voronezh is being refurbished.

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