Airbase in Savasleyka

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Savasleyka - air base in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which deployed the 4th branch of the National Centre of training of aviation personnel and voyskovyyh test the Ministry of Defense (former 4th Center for operational use and retraining of pilots of the Russian Air Force).

As for 2011 are based around fifteen MiG-31 of various modifications, the working condition of about four.
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MiG-31 - Double supersonic all-weather fighter-interceptor long range. The first Soviet combat aircraft of the fourth generation. The MiG-31 is designed to intercept and destroy airborne targets at extremely low, low, medium and high altitudes, day and night, and adverse weather conditions, the application of active and passive enemy radar interference and false thermal purposes. A group of four MiG-31 is capable of controlling the air space at the front length of 800-900 km.



Photos made directly from the control tower (KDP), which osuschestlyat full control over the flight.



Several MiGs were brought from other parts, however, no one has said where.



Machinery radiolocation service range navigation. Radar is in near navigation cap as radar rotates at high speed. It works on a certain channel, which is also set up on the plane. Radar catches it and displays the azimuth and range. Glide path and localizer antenna pattern build approach, forming a corridor approximately 3 kilometers wide.



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Inside the KDP. The scoreboard displays weather information near the KDP is a small weather station.



Workplace head fly. It looks all certainly daunting legacy. But like flies while spinning. While in private conversation by some officers been listening a lot. On the table is a table of scheduled flights.



On the radar marked area over which banned all flights - Sarov nuclear center. And ovals marked aerobatic zone Mukhtolovo and Vyksa. Direct corridor - the route Red Gorbatka-Sosnovskoye-Chernuha where civil aircraft flying.



The exercise worked out air refueling. At 16:00 in the air rose tanker IL-78 as much as much as eight hours. To him turns approaching MiGs. Because IL-78 goes a long hose, while the pilot has a special filling rod, which he must catch the hose. The first refueling, "the thirty-first" MiG here was carried out in 1993.



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Before the setting plane parked car rides, watered betonku. This is done so that the molten asphalt does not stick to the wheels.



Said radar specifically looks pathetic, to confuse the enemy.



Suddenly landing.



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Here I was almost roasted.



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From surprise. Almost all of the territory of the military unit moving on bicycles, even conscripts. Firstly, a very large territory. Secondly, I personally decided for myself that pilots are pumped Safety dudes that do not can without gadgets.



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On the territory of the garrison is a museum of aircraft.



In the foreground of "twenty-first" MiGs.



Yak-25 - double the Soviet fighter-interceptor, developed by Yakovlev Design Bureau in the early 1950s.



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MiG-25P - Soviet supersonic high-altitude interceptor single, base modification. The MiG-31 is its deep modernization.



Someone here has served as many as 33 years ago, and Port socialist property petroglyphs.

At the very end we met a lieutenant colonel from SCHOOL. There was a date. We opened a military secret. Military secret goes something like this:
- It fucking does not fly. They took fucking a moment, took out fucking all there. And all the fucking machine called the fourth fucking generation shit. And it fucking does not fly!

Then I remembered that are underway in full work to create the fifth-generation aircraft. Basement looked at me with such pity that even his eyes brightened.

- Well, it does not fly, shit, understand! What the fuck, the fifth? Well, what the fuck, the fifth?

At this point we left Savasleyka.



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