Photo report from the airfield "Domna" of the Eastern Military District

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Aviation base "Domna", Chita region.
The largest military unit of the Air and Space Forces of Russia in Transbaikalia.
The mixed aviation regiment of the Eastern Military District is based here, covering 2000 kilometers of the state border of Russia. “Our area of ​​responsibility is from Baikal to Amur,” the pilots say.
The regiment, having a glorious military history, in recent years has gained a new life. He became the first combat unit of the Armed Forces of Russia, which received the newest multi-purpose double fighter Su-30CM.



The first Su-30CM fighters belonging to the “4 ++” generation arrived in Domnu in November 2013. The equipment of the regiment was completed in 2014 in the year.



The regiment is staffed by a flight and technical staff, which has completed a full course of training in the combat use and operation of the Su-30CM. The pilots of the Lipetsk training center, as well as specialists and test pilots of the Irkut corporation helped them master a fundamentally new car.



The Su-30SM flights in Domna began in December 2013. Intensive combat training was under special control of the command - in February 2014, the first military unit armed with new fighters was inspected by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Force Viktor Bondarev.



Already in July, 2014, the regiment pilots took part in the district exercises with live firing. According to official information, during the exercises, the crews of Su-30CM fighters conducted aerial reconnaissance and destruction of aircraft and unmanned aerial enemy vehicles, and also improved their skills in hitting strategic ground targets.



Su-30M - multi-purpose aircraft. In the same sortie, they are able to fight with air and ground targets. The regiment, armed with Su-30CM, can take on the tasks that were previously solved by parts of different types of aircraft.



The regiment continues intensive military training. Flights are performed almost daily.



Su-30CM, developing the line of Su-30MKI / MKM fighters, has been well developed in production. This ensures high technical readiness of the aircraft fleet.



It is supported by the Irkut guarantee group. By the way, all the 650 kilometers from Domna are up to Irkutsk.



Next to the Su-30CM parked - attack aircraft Su-25. These aircraft are also in service with the regiment, which is why it is called "mixed". Squadron Su-25 is the historical name "Mongolian arat", obtained during the Great Patriotic War. The first aircraft of the squadron - La-5 fighters - were built with funds raised by the people of Mongolia.
Although the Su-30CM is incomparably more complex aircraft than the Su-25, according to technicians, it was as simple to maintain as its famous predecessor.



The new cars in the regiment met with enthusiasm. Here is a quote from the speech of one of the Su-30CM navigators: “The plane is awesome! The school practiced on the Tu-134Sh and An-26Sh. At the distribution they said: "You are in Domnu." “Well, Domna,” he was upset ... And then Su-30! It does not compare with anything - the aircraft computer. "



The machine is ready to fly. Double Su-30SM allows you to fully realize the potential of a multifunctional aircraft due to the optimal distribution of tasks between the pilot and the navigator.



Taxiing

Run-up



Takeoff! The machine goes to the aerobatic zone



Return



Flight Day Tasks Completed



While most of the regiment's fighters are participating in scheduled daily flights, the crew on duty aircraft are waiting for commands to take off in separate caponiers



Machines are filled. On the pylons - combat, not training missiles.
Their potential target is a trespasser of Russia's airspace.



Duty crew - "Air"!



Technicians of duty fighters are already at their posts: “The plane is ready for flight”!



The pilots have only two minutes to take places in the cockpit of the Su-30CM



All actions worked to the smallest detail. Preparing for the interception of violators is the first task that the pilots and technicians worked out after the Su-30CM was commissioned



Thanks to intensive training, the regiment took up combat duty in October 2014 of the year - less than a year after receiving the first aircraft



"Extreme" instructions

"Extreme" checks



The navigator is ready to fly ...



We start taxiing



While the plane is heading towards the runway, at the command post, the checking timer’s stopwatch counts short seconds of a hard departure standard for interception



Tower, I'm zero-four, ready for takeoff ...



Zero-fourth, take off allow!



In a few seconds, afterburner engines AL-31FP will throw the plane into the sky



And in a few more minutes, the phased Bars radar antenna array will send a signal to the intruder: “Begin to be afraid”



For Su-30CM does not matter the time of day and weather. Weapons control system allows you to perform the task day and night



But especially beautiful flights in the rays of the setting sun



The beauty of the landscape should not be deceiving. The Chita region is a harsh land both for people and for airplanes.



In winter, there may be a minus 40 ...



In the summer - plus 40 ...



And year-round the strongest winds blow regularly.



The first year of operation showed: Su-30CM successfully passed the difficult examination of the Siberian climate



The cars wintered outside weather-proof hangars that have yet to be built.



The northwest of the Chita region is a mountainous woodland, the south is a steppe. Pilots fly everywhere, practicing low-altitude flights over difficult terrain



It has not been two years since the receipt of the aircraft, and Su-30SM from Domna has already mastered the airfields of the Far East



Last year, the regiment was alerted to participate in the large Vostok-2014 exercise. According to official reports, the regiment solved the problem of air defense. No details were reported, but one of them Dom-Su-30CM "lit" spotter at the airport Yelizovo near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky



In 2015, the Su-30CM from Domna worked from the Sokol military airfield on Sakhalin Island



Visits to Pacific colleagues demonstrated an extended regimental area



Su-30SM, having a virtually unlimited range with refueling in the air, is an ideal defender of the vast spaces of the Far East and North of Russia. Blast crews of Domna in August 2015 conducted a series of refueling from IL-78 tankers



The range, combined with a large combat load and the positive results of operation in Domne, were powerful arguments for equipping the Su-30SM fighter with naval aviation of the Russian Navy.



In long flights over non-orientated terrain, one more advantage of the Su-30CM is manifested - a crew of two people maintains high performance



Evening flights completed ...



Evaluation of the aircraft delivered ...



Pilots go to rest, and technicians prepare cars for new flights

















































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  1. +14
    31 August 2015 07: 01
    The plane is handsome !!!!!
    1. +1
      31 August 2015 18: 00
      Кthen up to date with the current staffing of IAS AP?
      I look at the photo on the jackets of the IAS specialists positions: AK engineer, head of the power supply department.

      In Soviet times (mid-70s) on similar types of aircraft IAS consisted of:
      - 2 people for one plane: one technician of the plane — an officer (lieutenant or senior lieutenant) and one mechanic — a conscript soldier, after the ShMAS, both specializing in SD (airplane engine),
      - in the aviation link of 4 aircraft, IAS was headed by the link technician (senior lieutenant for SD), to whom the aircraft technicians and their mechanics obeyed. TEC link was not,
      - in the aviation squadron IAS was headed by the deputy commander of the squadron for IAS - squadron engineer, a major position in the specialty SD.
      - the squadron included aviation groups of specialists from AO, REO, AB, and SAPS, headed by an officer (position - senior lieutenant), and including an engineer technician by profession and several mechanics: ensign and conscript soldiers, from the ShMAS, by specialties. TEC squadron was not.
      - In the IAS aviation regiment headed the deputy commander for IAS. In addition to IAS specialists, the squadron, IAS regiment included: engineers of the regiment by specialties (major positions) and there was a teh regiment, consisting of aviation groups of various specialties (group leaders captain posts) and including officers of technicians and mechanics: soldiers and ensigns.

      As you can see from the old staff of the IAS regiment, there was a shortage of captain positions: almost one by one in the specialty, which made it impossible for the majority of IAS specialists to retire, and retired in a large number of class specialists, after 25 years of service, with the rank of senior lieutenant. This caused a great dissatisfaction with the service, and the corresponding attitude towards it.
      1. +2
        1 September 2015 05: 03
        And who put a minus? Aviation "romantics" who do not know the aviation service? Do you doubt the veracity of what you have written?
        So it's true. I myself am a former technician of the Air Force plane, I write what happened.
        We then said that it was necessary to change the name of the IAS posts, to create incentives for the service of aviation specialists.
        It was a shame for us young IAS officers to look at experienced, gray-haired, near retirement age senior lieutenants: link technicians, group leaders, a notch higher than us in the ranks, and being in the same rank with us, pulling the service strap on remote airfields living in uncomfortable military camps, mostly in communal apartments, away from big cities and modern civilization.
  2. +13
    31 August 2015 07: 27
    Wonderful photo story! I watched with pleasure!
  3. +4
    31 August 2015 08: 38
    I downloaded half the photo)) Thank you
    1. 0
      1 September 2015 01: 11
      Why half? request I saved the whole page, with all pictures. Although, starting with the photo with the caption "Taxiing begins," the further I looked, the more the thought manifested itself in my head: "Professor, here what needs to be distributed! Here these photos must be shown on strategi.com! And don't give us photos of flying irons! "
  4. +5
    31 August 2015 08: 52
    Incredibly beautiful shots. Many human thanks to the author !!!!!!
  5. +1
    31 August 2015 09: 00
    Great reporting!
  6. +1
    31 August 2015 09: 13
    I want to see the Su-30SM live. I envy the pilots with white envy
  7. +2
    31 August 2015 09: 21
    Great cars, also versatile - both by air and by land

    By the way, they will now protect not only the west and east - but the southern borders

    Kazakhstan began purchasing Su-30 SM - the exact number is still unclear, in general there was earlier a conversation about Mig-35 ...

    Here is the info from Vesti Roux on April 17:

    "... The newest super-maneuverable Su-30 SM fighters have been delivered to Kazakhstan from the Irkutsk aircraft plant. The purchase was carried out within the framework of an agreement with Russia on a unified air defense system," Russia 24 reports.
    Moscow and Astana are on the path to arms unification. Multipurpose two-seater aircraft uses high-precision weapons and is capable of performing a wide range of combat missions at a considerable distance from the base.
    1. +3
      31 August 2015 15: 24
      Quote: Talgat
      Here is the info from Vesti Roux on April 17:
      A solemn event was held at the Taldykorgan air defense base of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan, dedicated to the arrival of four Su-30SM super-maneuverable fighters, which Kazakhstan purchased at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant of the Russian Federation. Source - City Portal Kapshagai Bay: http://kapshagai.kz/informaciya-kapshagai / v-almatinskoi-oblasti-sovershili-posad

      ku-sverhmanevrennye-samolety-istrebiteli-su-30sm-pokolenija-4.html
      1. +2
        31 August 2015 19: 50
        Su-30 SM arrived in Kazakhstan
  8. 0
    31 August 2015 09: 21
    Awesome !! Thank! The plane is beautiful!
  9. +4
    31 August 2015 10: 40
    Thanks to "VO" and the author! 15 years of service in the ZabVO, 23 of the Red Banner Air Army, of which 4 years in Domna. I remembered, and a tear came. Live and fly, Domna!
  10. +3
    31 August 2015 11: 56
    I do not know a more beautiful aircraft than the Su-27 / 30 / 35 family and others.
    Fantastically beautiful aircraft, with the grace of a living creature.
    Many planes look good from one angle and do not look at all from another. Dryers look great from all angles.
    Here some hidden law of nature comes into force when a technically and functionally competent solution is always aesthetically beautiful.
    And a question about the photo, the new Dryers are "hung" with these things (circled in red).
    What is it? Any sensors?
    1. +8
      31 August 2015 13: 48
      Quote: foma2028
      And a question about the photo, the new Dryers are "hung" with these things (circled in red).
      What is it? Any sensors?

      Reflective elements.
      1. +1
        31 August 2015 14: 20
        Thank you very much for the educational program. It has long puzzled over this mystery.
        I thought it was some kind of nanotechnology, but the solution was so simple.
  11. 0
    31 August 2015 12: 01
    cool article. By the way, comrades, agree that double drying is more beautiful than single ??? or to taste ... pure subjective my opinion!
    1. 0
      31 August 2015 12: 52
      Well, here's a joke:
      Berimore, tell me do you like horses in apples or bay horses? You see sir when I'm on bay I like bay and vice versa.
      I see, Barimore! Tell me, which women do you like blonde or brunette? You see sir ... I understand Barimore thanks!

      So Sushki, look at the photo of a single ...
    2. +1
      31 August 2015 13: 37
      This "Serpent Gorynych" is also very good, no less than double drying
      1. 0
        1 September 2015 09: 16
        No, single is also very very beautiful. Just double has a different shape of the lamp, i.e. it is bigger by itself and due to this it looks very cool. At first I didn’t understand what the difference was, but the eye noticed the differences, then I realized that two pilots needed more visibility than in single-seat drying.
        The photo is practically identical to the Su-30cm, everything except the lantern and the "beak".
  12. 0
    31 August 2015 13: 39
    zachotny pictures.
  13. 0
    31 August 2015 18: 43
    How beautiful they are ...
  14. +1
    31 August 2015 19: 41
    These eyes are opposite
    Kaleidoscope of lights.
    These eyes are opposite
    Brighter and warmer.
    These eyes are opposite
    Tea color.
    These eyes are opposite
    What is it? What is it?
  15. +1
    31 August 2015 21: 06
    Thanks to the author, the photos are at least interesting. However, as I understand it, "SMki" received a unit (regiment?), Which is the successor of the 120th GvIAP-Where are the shark's mouth? Where is the numbering on the inner sides of the keels? Part of it was elite. It's sad that The crisis of the flight personnel training system does not allow our SVKO to realize the potential of such a machine as the Su-30SM. What is a navigator?! Do you see Tu-134 in the school; An-26 "practiced." What can he know about the tactics of air combat? What skills does he have? (I'm talking about elementary breathing exercises, and physical exercises that help to endure overloads). How can this person become "eyes on the back of the head" of the plane? And can he at all? After all, "SMka" is the board of today, and tomorrow the 35th will become the basis (there will not be many hopes for the T-50), but it is single, and the operator's practical basis is already an essential and obligatory element preparation and a fighter pilot.
    1. 0
      28 September 2015 12: 32
      father was the commander of the 120th regiment in the early 80s, 8 years in Domna and I lived
  16. 0
    3 September 2015 00: 32
    But what can I say, only interjections: krrrrasavtsy, bl..y!
  17. 0
    3 September 2015 12: 43
    He served an emergency in Domna in the 91st year, 23VA (after Mongolia, Choyren) ... served in OBATO, served ZKP .. sometimes in DZ. Only positive memories of the service. The photo article is gorgeous !!! Thanks to the author. Airfield ALIVE !!!
  18. 0
    26 October 2015 09: 01
    Ukrainians thank for this report.
    Thanks to him, Russian pilots are deanonymized.

    https://informnapalm.org/13956-su-30sm-27-krasnyj-120-yj-sap

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