Russian fighters resumed training in the Crimea

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Russian fighters resumed training in the CrimeaAirplanes aviation Russian naval fleet arrived at the training complex NITKA near Saki. This was reported to Rosbalt in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

Training will last from late August to September 30. The training will be held by the crews of Su-33, Su-27UB and Su-25UTG aircraft. Total training flights involved ten cars.

Recall that before the 2008 year, the pilots of the RF 279 th fighter aviation regiment regularly carried out training on NITKA. 9 August 2008, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - in connection with the Russian-Georgian conflict - made a statement in which it considered it inappropriate to train Russian pilots on a simulator in the Crimea. This ban was a response to the use of the Black Sea Fleet in the fighting off the coast of Georgia.

NITKA (Ground test aviation training complex) is a special ground-based training complex that simulates the deck of an aircraft carrier and is designed for testing the take-off and landing techniques of an aircraft on an aircraft carrier. Located at the airport Novofedorovka (near the town of Saki in the Crimea). It is an airfield with a steel runway in the form of a ship's deck, equipped with a springboard and arresting gear. The dimensions of the airfield are equivalent to the size of the flight deck of the heavy aircraft carrier cruiser Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov.
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  1. kesa1111
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    14 October 2011 12: 04
    Is it really that expensive to build a couple of threads in Russia?