Combat aircraft

OPERATIONAL FIGHTER UNITS OF THE RUSSIAN AEROSPACE FORCES (VKS)

Unit Air base (location) Inventory Command

3rd Composite Aviation Regiment Krymsk

Su-27

Su-27SM3

(Su-30M2)

4th Air Force and Air Defense Army

14th Fighter Aviation Regiment Khalino (Kursk) Su-30SMMiG-29SMT 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army

22nd Fighter Aviation Regiment Tsentralnaya Uglovaya (Vladivostok)

MiG-31

Su-35S

(Su-30M2)

11th Air Force and Air Defense Army

23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment Dzyomgi (Komsomolsk-on-Amur)

Su-35S

(Su-30M2)

(Su-30SM)

11th Air Force and Air Defense Army

31st Fighter Aviation Regiment Millerovo Su-30SM 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army

38th Fighter Aviation Regiment Belbek (Crimea)

Su-27

Su-27SM

(Su-30M2)

4th Air Force and Air Defense Army

120th Composite Aviation Regiment Domna Su-30SM 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army

159th Fighter Aviation Regiment Besovets

Su-35S

Su-27

Su-27SM

(Su-30M2)

6th Air Force and Air Defense Army

712th Fighter Aviation Regiment Kansk MiG-31 14th Air Force and Air Defense Army

764th Fighter Aviation Regiment Bolshoye Savino (Perm) MiG-31 14th Air Force and Air Defense Army

790th Fighter Aviation Regiment Khotilovo MiG-31Su-27 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army

3624th Air Base Erebuni (Armenia) MiG-29 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army

Notes: A unit’s supplementary types (when only a few aircraft are in the regiment) are in brackets.

Typically, a regiment has three 12-aircraft squadrons plus trainers. Some only have two squadrons.

Fighter aircraft are found in the 929th National Flight Test Center at Akhtubinsk and the 4th National Air Personnel Preparation and Military Evaluation Center

at Lipetsk. The latter includes a squadron of MiG-31s at Savasleyka and the 237th Air Technology Demonstration Center at Kubinka, which hosts the Russkiye

Vityazi (Su-30SM) and Strizhi (MiG-29) aerobatic teams.

because they were rejected by Algeria and

no other customer came forward for them.

A follow-on purchase of 14 MiG-29SMTs in

2014 was authorized, albeit mainly to keep

the RAC MiG company ticking over.

The ex-Algerian MiG-29SMT aircraft

(izdeliye 9.19) were assigned to the

 ghter regiment at Kursk, but even these

started to be replaced by Su-30SMs from

June 2017. Examples of the newer

MiG-29SMT (9.19R), built during

2015-16, were delivered to the

Privolzhskiy (Astrakhan) training center.

These were the last MiG-29s to be

produced in Moscow, and the plant

there has now closed. Since 1982 this

facility built a total of 1,470 MiG-29s; in

addition, 274 two-seat variants have

been made by the Nizhny

Novgorod plant.

The blue ‘Bort’

number and more

traditional gray/

green camoufl age

identifi es the

MiG-29SMTs

from the combat

training unit

at Astrakhan.

Dmitriy Pichugin

OPERATIONAL FIGHTER UNITS OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY

Unit Location Fighter inventory Command

43rd Naval Attack Aviation Regiment Novofyodorovka (Saki), Crimea Su-30SM(Su-24/MR) Black Sea Fleet

72nd Air Base Chkalovsk and Chernyakhovsk Su-27(Su-30SM) Baltic Fleet

98th Independent Composite Aviation Regiment Monchegorsk MiG-31(Su-24) Northern Fleet

100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment Severomorsk-3 MiG-29KR/KUBR Northern Fleet

279th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment Severomorsk-3

Su-33

(Su-27UB)

(Su-30SM)

Northern Fleet

7060th Air Base Yelizovo MiG-31 Paci c Fleet

Note: Fighter aircraft are also attached to the 859th Combat Training and Flight Crew Training Center at Yeysk on the Black Sea.

FORCE REPORT // RUSSIAN FIGHTERS

72 March 2018 //^ http://www.combataircraft.net

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