Defense Ministry finishes modernization of the Belbek airfield in the Crimea

August 15 2018

The Russian Defense Ministry is completing the modernization of the Crimean airfield Belbek. Most of the work at the airfield will be completed by the end of this year, infrastructure facilities will also be upgraded to ensure its operation, and the surrounding area will be equipped, Izvestiya reports with reference to the Russian military.

Defense Ministry finishes modernization of the Belbek airfield in the Crimea

According to the plans of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the updated airfield may, if necessary, become the permanent home base of strategic missile carriers and long-range bombers, as it is one of the most southern bases of the Russian HQs. Currently, the second runway is being completed at the aerodrome. After reconstruction, Belbek will be able to receive and deploy on a permanent basis strategic bombers of any type, which are in service with the VKS.

At the moment, the 38 th Fighter Wing of the 4 Command of the Air Force and Air Defense of Russia is based at the airport. It includes Su-27CM, Su-30М2, Su-27П and Su-27UB fighters. After modernization, experts say, the command of the Russian Aerospace Forces can deploy long-range Tu-22M bombers capable of carrying anti-ship missiles.

Russian planes located at the Belbek airfield fully control not only the Black Sea, but also a significant part of Asia and Southern Europe.

In addition, the Belbek airport from 2014 is a co-based airfield. The plans of the Government of Crimea to build on it a modern airport terminal complex for passengers. Work has already begun.

Photos used:: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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LSA57 15 August 2018 09: 59
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Russian aircraft located at the Balbek airfield fully control not only the Black Sea, but also a significant part of Asia and Southern Europe.

and it is very pleasing
1. Random 15 August 2018 12: 02
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  but also a significant part of Asia and Southern Europe.
  
  What do they control? "With a glance" ... yes ... but what has Russian aircraft to do with it? Or air defense systems of a "potential enemy" on ... "a significant part of Asia and Southern Europe." suddenly .. "sunk into oblivion"?
cariperpaint 15 August 2018 10: 08
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4th fighter regiment of the 4th command of the Air Force and Air Defense of Russia. I apparently fell behind after being fired, which means XNUMX command?)))
1. Random 15 August 2018 16: 04
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  I apparently fell behind after being fired, which means 4 command?)))
  
  "Lagged behind", but quite a bit well, + "author" .... "clumsy", I already wrote about this.
  But in fact:
  1. The command was formed on December 1, 2009, by the merger of the 4th Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense and the 5th Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense.
  2. On August 1, 2015, the 4th Air Force and Air Defense Command was reorganized into The 4th Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense (4th Air Force and Air Defense) is the operational association of the Russian Air Force as part of the North Caucasus Military District.
aszzz888 15 August 2018 10: 12
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After the reconstruction Belbek will be able to accept and host strategic bombers of any type on an ongoing basis, armed with the VKS.

... it is like a bone in the throat ...
Zubr 15 August 2018 10: 14
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A good pace of reconstruction of facilities is holding. This is really very good news. Yes, and a civilian airport. Well done. They will earn money.
1. bessmertniy 15 August 2018 11: 31
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  Given the bridge across the Kerch Strait and the development of a dual-use airport, Crimea receives excellent logistics and enhances its role as Russia's southern outpost.
  1. Ros 56 15 August 2018 13: 17
    
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    Crimea receives excellent logistics and enhances its role as Russia's southern outpost. hi
    
    This is how Crimea was called in the days of the Soviet Union! An unsinkable aircraft carrier. "Therefore, there is nothing surprising:
    1 that he returned to Russia
    2 that there is its arrangement in two areas, defense and infrastructure to improve the quality of life of local residents and the convenience of tourists.
    Well, the fact that there are shortcomings and are quite annoying is not how Moscow was built right away, and there is no need to discount the psychology of people who have long lived outside the borders of the Russian Federation and are accustomed to a different perception of reality. The main thing is that most consider themselves Russians.
2. kapitan92 15 August 2018 12: 10
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  Yes, and civilian airport
  
  The plans of the Crimean government to build on it a modern airport complex for passengers.
  
  Cheslovo, I do not understand the idea of deploying an air terminal complex at a military airport. What a need?
  1. Zubr 15 August 2018 15: 38
    
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    Yes, we have one way or another, all airports are dual-use. Moreover, and to recoup the money invested in it, I think a very reasonable solution.
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      You are very mistaken, in peacetime, a civilian airport is quite entitled to refuse to accept military aircraft, there were cases .. you google it!
  2. Random 15 August 2018 16: 12
    
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    Cheslovo, I do not understand the idea of deploying an air terminal complex at a military airport. What a need?
    
    And what about the dacha in Foros? Here for "Humpbacked" and "built" an airport for ... "citizens"
    1. TT62o 15 August 2018 20: 46
      
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      And it was called "letter house".
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    There will be no civilian terminal, it will be purely military, as it should be. Oh, what today the Su-25 got up over the sea, practiced diving and approaching the target, beauties! Height, about 100-500 m. We are waiting for videos on YouTube.
    1. TT62o 15 August 2018 20: 59
      
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      In the late 80s, the Americans began to enter the Black Sea, respectively, they were accompanied by the ships of the Black Sea Fleet. The Air Force was not deprived of attention. One day MiG-27s appeared above them (if memory serves, there were 4 pieces), and from half an hour on the MV, an eight was written above them. I do not know what they were working on, our "team" was under control, we only asked for the rest of the fuel from them. This, too, looked beautiful on the ICO.
  4. Xnumx vis 15 August 2018 20: 57
    
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    Government airplanes and some civilian planes have always landed at Belbek airfield ... ... Not a large station was built with a waiting room .. If there is a dual-purpose airfield, then it is convenient for Sevastopol. In summer, and all year round a lot of people travel to the city on business and to the sea.
Faceless 15 August 2018 10: 15
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Crimea again becomes our unsinkable aircraft carrier. This can not but rejoice.
askort154 15 August 2018 10: 24
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It seems that the caponiers have completely abandoned. The entire regiment is stationed in regular parking lots,
moreover, a joint airfield. When striking, the civilian sector will also suffer. Joint basing can be done within the state (Perm), but not at the borders (Yu. Sakhalin, Belbek). IMHO.
1. LSA57 15 August 2018 10: 43
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  When striking, the civilian sector will also suffer. Joint basing can be done within the state (Perm), but not at the borders (Yu. Sakhalin, Belbek). IMHO.
  
  really an omission
  it was necessary to ask the "specialists" before the start of the reconstruction in the tynet
  1. bk316 15 August 2018 11: 42
    
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    really an omission
    
    Well, about the civilian sector - it’s ridiculous: they’ll hit the military airfield, certainly hit the bridges, control centers, power plants, etc.
    But about caponiers, this is really bad, and look at the photo (well, if it is relevant), the planes are not just without caponiers, but they are also standing in a bunch, overlapping taxiing - a mess.
    1. TT62o 15 August 2018 12: 20
      
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      This is not a parking lot, TEC. MiG-29s are most likely Ukrainian. The Su-27 cannot be "shoved" into all Soviet arched shelters. Look at the images from space, there are zones of dispersion.
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        I looked, there are dispersal zones, but everything is in the open air and everything that is now is on the heap.
        For fun, see Erzurum, also a joint base with civilians, also an advanced base. But everything is in the caponiers, you don’t even understand how much it costs. Just do not look at Yandex, the military part of the airfield is covered up there.
        
        And they’re digging the civilian strip not in a childish way ...
  2. Random 15 August 2018 11: 59
    
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    really an omission
    
    Before you "give out" sarcasm, you should at least "turn on the brains" in your "urya-patriotic head"
    Never in the HISTORY OF AVIATION was it foreseen to base DA and CA on advanced airfields on an ongoing basis ... NEVER, since this is FULL IDIOTISM and CRITENISM (from the "series" of bombing strikes from high altitudes by Tu-22M3 aircraft during the day and in HORIZONTAL FLIGHT mode.).
    In the threatened period, yes ... it is possible to relocate DA units to advanced airfields (using jump airfields) but ... no more
Iline 15 August 2018 10: 47
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With strategists, the author somehow broke out. They can use this airfield in the current borders of the Russian Federation only as an operational airfield, nothing more.
Dalniki (Tu-22M3) is another matter, and even then with a stretch.
We can recall the 182nd Tbap, which was removed from the Mozdok airport in the 98th year after the events in Chechnya and Georgia gained independence with ambitions to join NATO. What did not prevent the use of this airfield as an operational one for the Tu-22M3 when working in Syria.
1. New Year day 15 August 2018 12: 05
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  Dalniki (Tu-22M3
  
  for them is the reconstruction of the runway in the Guards
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    for them is the reconstruction of the runway in the Guards
    
    This is the "wishlist" and "wishlist" from 2014
    Here .. "she" -Airbase in the Guards (Crimea) in 2016 will receive a naval missile-carrying aircraft carrier (MRAP) armed with long-range bombers Tu-22M3, the Russian military department told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
    "We expect that in two years time a missile-carrying regiment on the Tu-22M3 will be based at the airbase in Gvardeyskoye," the source said.
    
    "The necessary and sufficient number of naval missile carriers will appear here. There has always been a need for them in the southern direction, but right now there are suitable conditions for their return to the Crimea, which was previously called an" unsinkable aircraft carrier, "the agency's source said.
    link - http://www.interfax.ru/world/367257
    In fact, the 37th mixed air regiment of 27 air divisions is based there
2. Random 15 August 2018 12: 05
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  With strategists, the author somehow broke out.
  
  Yes, because the "aftor", that aviation ... that dances .... the main thing is In aviation of the USSR Navy, the entire MRA was based in the depths of the Crimean Peninsula, with the exception of scouts from Sak
Genry 15 August 2018 10: 49
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Author!
Airfield Bаrybek in the Crimea does not exist! You first spelled B correctlyеice cream ...
And then you might think on BaaLlebek in Libya.
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Drying should be covered in caponiers, otherwise 41 and 67 years would not have happened again!
1. LSA57 15 August 2018 11: 42
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  It would be necessary to cover Drying in caponiers,
  
  Do you know for sure that there are no caponiers?
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    Do you know for sure that there are no caponiers?
    
    "Study"
    [media = http: //sevastopolis.com/uploads/images/pix1/64427166.jpg]
    Found the "reason" ... "not uploading photos"
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      "Study"
      
      http://blackseatv.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/3.png- строительство второй ВПП
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      "Study"
      [media = http: //sevastopolis.com/uploads/images/pix1/64427166.jpg]
      Found the "reason" ... "not uploading photos"
      
      and this photo is definitely less than 5 years old?
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  3. andrewkor 15 August 2018 20: 41
    
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    Yes, how can I know what's on the base! I just commented on the photo for the article! One cluster bomb is enough for all 12 pieces if that!
2. fox_rudy 15 August 2018 14: 35
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  I do not know how it is now, but in the 90th there were also hangars and embankments. Maybe only the 27th in size will not pass, I didn’t google, I won’t say, the 15th is smaller, in my opinion.
annodomene 15 August 2018 11: 39
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And again, the sky above Lyubimovka will cease to be languid What can not but rejoice!
1. Xnumx vis 15 August 2018 21: 03
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  It has not been languid for a long time .. This year they fly a little (football .to, yes this), and so UUUUUUUUUUUUU ..........
Elephant 15 August 2018 11: 48
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The civilian part of the airfield near Sevastopol is really necessary. Very correct decision! Residents and guests of Sevastopol will be able to save time, because from Simferopol airport they get uncomfortable and long.
1. Random 15 August 2018 12: 19
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  The civilian part of the airfield near Sevastopol is really necessary. Very correct decision!
  
  Any "joint" basing is from ... "hopelessness", unfortunately
next322 15 August 2018 11: 57
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generally called-Belbek airfield ......... reprinted from Izvestia
with mistakes
fox_rudy 15 August 2018 12: 50
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Oh, Belbek !! Su-15TM, pos. Lyubimovka !! And the USSR was still a little alive! Youth!
Separ 15 August 2018 15: 24
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Under the USSR, it seems that "long-range" were standing there ..
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  Under the USSR, it seems that "long-range" were standing there ..
  
  This has never happened and in general .. in Crimea NEVER on an ongoing basis did not base units and formations YES
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  No, the air defense airfield, as I wrote above, the SU-15TM. Pilots in the 90th retrained for the 27th. Something like this.
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When striking, the civilian sector will also suffer.

When delivering a military strike, the whole of Sevastopol will be under attack, and obviously not because of Belbek. Sevastopol residents have always known and know that in the event of war the city will be hit by a nuclear strike. We will all perish. It’s like on a warship .. Or all are alive. Or everyone died .------------- Yes, interesting ... For a long time, moderators will sculpt the flag of Sevastopol soon ....
demo 15 August 2018 21: 22
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It is even visually visible that North Ossetia is located south of Crimea.
And Belbek is located north of Mozdok.
Therefore Belbek is not the southernmost airfield of the Russian Federation.
Author "2" in geography.
True and the map of the Russian Federation without the Crimea.
But this is a minus to cartographers.
And more.
Here's how Google Earth Pro interprets Crimea affiliation.

All names are in two languages.
Is that a tribute to Ukrainians living in Crimea?
And why there is no duplication in the Crimean Tatar?
In general, those are still goat-like.
Pete mitchell 16 August 2018 02: 08
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..placing at a military airport of an airport complex. What a need?

C'mon, this is an improvement in infrastructure, citizens are more pleasant and there are more choice of routes.
Protos 16 August 2018 19: 59
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There will be no civilian terminal, this is all nonsense !!
Just government and the BTA will be able to take!
There are two terminals in Simferopol and this is enough!