قاعدة ليبيتسك الجوية
Lipetsk Air Base (also given as Lipetskiy, Lipetsky, Lipetsk-2, Shakhm 10, and Lipetsk West) is an air base in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia located 12 km northwest of Lipetsk. It is the combat training center of the Russian Aerospace Forces, analogous to the United States Air Force's Nellis Air Force Base.[بحاجة لمصدر] The base is made up of two medium-sized airfields joined together.
Lipetsk | |||||||
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| Lipetsk, Lipetsk Oblast في Russia | |||||||
 Su-25SM, MiG-29UB, Su-24M2, Su-34 | |||||||
  Lipetsk Shown within Lipetsk Oblast  Lipetsk Lipetsk (روسيا) | |||||||
| الإحداثيات | 52°38′6″N 039°26′42″E / 52.63500°N 39.44500°ECoordinates: 52°38′6″N 039°26′42″E / 52.63500°N 39.44500°E | ||||||
| النوع | Air Base | ||||||
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| المالك | Ministry of Defence | ||||||
| المشغل | Russian Aerospace Forces | ||||||
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| بُني | 1960 | ||||||
| قيد الاستخدام | 1960 - present | ||||||
| معلومات مدرج جوي | |||||||
| الارتفاع | 194 metres (636 ft) فوق سطح البحر | ||||||
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The base is home to the 4th State Centre for Aircrew Training and Field Tests (4th GTsPAPVI), formerly the 4th Centre for Combat Application and Crew Training. Components of the 4th Centre include the 968th Instructor-Research Aviation Regiment (968th IISAP) and the 237th Air Force Display Centre of the Russian Air Force. I. N. Kozheduba - Russian Falcons.[1] [2]
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History
In 1925, the Soviet government allowed Weimar Republic Germany to open an air combat school at Lipetsk: Lipetsk fighter-pilot school. That permitted Germany to evade treaty restrictions on the development of military aviation, while the Soviet Air Forces received technical advice and access to test results. By 1933, the Soviets concluded that the arrangement was not worthwhile, and the new German government agreed (for different reasons). The school was closed.[3][4][5]
The 4th Center of Combat Application and Conversion of Frontline Aviation, Russia's Top Gun school since around the 1960s, is the most well known unit on the base. Its chief, Col. Kharchevski, became famous after air combat exercises in the US and has become the personal pilot of President Putin.
From the 1960s to 1990, units stationed at Lipetsk include:
- 4th Centre for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel (4 TsBP i PLS)
- 760th Composite Training and Research Aviation Regiment (760 IISAP) flying 14 Mikoyan MiG-29E, 13 Sukhoi Su-17, 16 Sukhoi Su-25, and a number of Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-27, and Mi-8 aircraft [6][7] as of the early 1990s.
- 91st Training and Research Regiment (91 IIAP) flying Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23,[8] 23 Mikoyan MiG-29, and 15 Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft as of the early 1990s [6]
In 1992, the 968th Fighter Aviation Regiment arrived from Falkenberg in East Germany. It was flying Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and Mikoyan MiG-29 aircraft in the mid-1990s. In 1992-1993 it became first a Research-Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment and then a Research-Instructor Mixed Aviation Regiment.[9] Flying solely MiG-29s by 2004, it later also flew Sukhoi Su-24M aircraft.[7]
On 8 August 2024, the airbase was struck by large-scale Ukrainian drone attacks that caused numerous explosions and fires.[10]
Gallery
References
- ^ "Russian Air Force today - Russian Western Military District". Eastern Order of Battle. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "Russian Air Force - Lipetsk". Scramble.nl. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ Sobolev, D. A.; Khazanov, D. B., A Secret Aviation School, http://www.airpages.ru/eng/ru/lipetsk.shtml, retrieved on 26 February 2011
- ^ Johnson, Robert (1998). "Planting the Dragon's Teeth: the German Air Combat School at Lipetsk". Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ Vercamer, Arvo; Pipes, Jason, German Military in the Soviet Union 1918-1933, http://www.feldgrau.com/ger-sov.html, retrieved on 26 February 2011
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- ^ Gordon, Yefim (2005). MiG-23/27 Flogger: Soviet Swing-Wing Fighter/Strike Aircraft. Midland. 185780211X.
- ^ Holm, www.ww2.dk/new
- ^ https://x.com/Azovsouth/status/1821712220654334290
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