Air Force and Air Defense exercises - "Ladoga-2012"
The exercise "Ladoga-2012", as the name implies, is held every year at the same time period, in the area of the Russian Air Force training ground in the area of Lake Ladoga. This year, to participate in the Ladoga-2012 exercise, at Besovets airfield (Republic of Karelia) approximately 30 of various types of air defense fighter aircraft were deployed from other air bases located in the Kaliningrad, Kursk, Murmansk and Tver regions.
According to the press service of the ZVO, the exercise officially began on 9 on April 2012 and ends on 15 on April 2012.
During this period, fighter pilots on combat aircraft Su-27, Su-27UB, MiG-29MT and MiG-31, while conducting combat missions in day and night conditions, worked out elements of modern air combat, including enemy detection, target acquisition and its conditional defeat, with the performance of combat launches of guided missiles at air and ground targets, setting active radar jamming, and also worked out the interaction between crews and ground control points in the dark. Every day, exercises around 30 combat vehicles with different crews worked out combat training missions in the air over Ladoga. As a result of flights to combat use, the crews successfully hit more than 150 various ground and air targets. Additionally, the pilots gained valuable night flight experience, and for the first time young pilots worked on targets with real short-range combat missiles (RD) with thermal guidance P-73.
SAB-250-200 and SAB-250-T special bombs with parachutes were used as "conditional targets" to slow the fall, which were dropped by target aircraft.
According to the press service of the ZVO for IA REGNUM:
"During the training battles, military pilots destroyed all types of aviation equipment of a conditional opponent who tried to break into the territory of Russia, both at extremely low altitudes and at heights above 10 thousand meters."
“A special feature of the exercises was that the military pilots were not informed about the location of the target and its characteristics and received their own search, escort for escort while in the airborne duty zone,” the press service clarified. “All personnel involved in the exercises he performed the tasks of air combat in good and excellent. " Source REGNUM.
In order to join, so to speak, to the pleasant, we bring to your attention a recent photo report from the 1-th day of the exercise.
1. Su-27UB (from w / 71) was involved as a weather scout before the start of the exercise.
2. Fighter-interceptor Su-27 b / n 41 forces of aviation technicians are preparing to fly
3. Shock fighter MiG-29CMT b / n 27 before preparing for takeoff
4. Shock fighter MiG-29CMT b / n 27 before preparing for takeoff
5. Shock fighter MiG-29CMT b / n 04 before preparing for takeoff
6. Shock fighter MiG-29CMT b / n 05 parked
7. He's a bigger plan.
8. Shock fighter MiG-29CMT b / n 08 before preparing for takeoff
9. Ammunition. Famous Soviet / Russian short-range missiles (RMD) with thermal guidance - Р-73
10. Photo in the comments does not need
11. Su-27 b / n 45 takes off with suspended a / b SAB-250T (thermal targets)
12. Same board, different perspective on takeoff
13. Su-27 b / n 36 takes off with suspended a / b SAB-250T (thermal targets) and containers of EW station Sorption
14. On the air hunt. Takeoff - a pair of MiG-29CMT fighters
15. MiG-29MT b / n 04 crashes to complete the task
16. MiG-29MT b / n 05 crashes to complete the task
17. Su-27 b / n 36 is returned. Under the wings - conditional targets of a / b SAB-250-200
18. Su-27 b / n 34 crashes to complete the task
19. Su-27 b / n 35 crashes to complete the task
20. Su-27 b / n 34 and b / n 35 in the air
21. Su-27 b / n 34 and b / n 35 returned
22. "Sweet couple" - Su-27 b / n 34 and b / n 35
23. Su-27 b / n 36 - jogging after landing
24. Su-27 b / n 04 crashes to reset goals. Suspensions - conditional targets of a / b SAB-250-T
25. Su-27UB b / n 71 crashes to reset conditional goals. On hangers - lighting a / b SAB-250-T
26. Su-27 b / n 34 crashes to complete the task
27. MiG-29MT b / n 04 crashes to complete the task
28. MiG-29MT b / n 03 landed
29. Su-27UB b / n 71 once again crashes to reset conditional targets in the form of lighting bombs
30. MiG-29MT b / n 07 crashes to complete the task in the evening
31. Su-27 b / n37 on takeoff. Before you car after repair ("damned Serdyukov" still reached ....)
32. But in what form did this board leave for repair at the aircraft plant (photo from the airforce.ru resource)
33. Among the sides of the Su-27, who took part in the exercises, were nominal. The planes are named after pilots of the Air Force who fought during the Great Patriotic War and were awarded the high title of Heroes of the Soviet Union. The board №41 in the photo is named after Colonel Alexander Chislov, the 63 GIAP commander, who personally shot down an enemy aircraft 21.
34. An-26 military transport aircraft at Besovets airbase
35. An-12 military transport aircraft at Besovets airbase
36. One of the fighter-interceptor Su-27 b / n 20 a / b Besovets from the staff on duty with a pilot in the cockpit
37. Su-27 interceptor is ready to perform combat missions to protect the air borders of Russia
38. Group shot of aircraft from Ladoga-2012 exercises - as a memento
PS As they said in ancient times: "Those who have ears, let them hear it, and those who have eyes can see it."
Skeptics are often hard to believe, but the Air Force after the reform and before it are completely different categories.
We are not going to promote the new leadership of the Ministry of Defense, but simply offer an objective look at the situation and take for granted that the positive changes are obvious.
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