For the first time in 30 years, military engineers from the Central Military District deployed a field airfield capable of receiving heavy transport aircraft aviationtransmits TASS a message from the representative of the district Yaroslav Roshchupkin.
“A separate engineering and airfield battalion of the Central Military District completed a march from the Altai Territory to the Orenburg Region. There, at the Totsky proving ground, engineers in the field equipped an airstrip with a length of 1,8 thousand meters and a width of 40 meters, as well as 12 helicopter pads. This airfield took such heavy planes as the IL-76, ”the officer said.
According to Roshchupkin, in addition to the runway, "field stores of fuel and lubricants and aviation weapons were erected and disguised, works on landscaping the airfield and fighting dust were performed."
“Engineers of the Central Military District deployed an airfield within the framework of a comprehensive special exercise to comprehensively support the group of forces in the Central Asian strategic direction, which runs in the territory of the Western and Central Military Districts and covers six federal subjects. It is the preparatory stage of the Center-2015 strategic command and staff exercise, which will begin in September, ”he said.
A field airfield for transport aviation has been deployed at the Totsk ground
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