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New Ka-52 in 55th helicopter regiment, Korenovsk

A Rgt is composed of 2 - 4 Sqns with different types ( 1st pic ) each have 10 - 20 helos Air Force have all helos transfered from Army severals years ago.
This one have 39 Mi-35, Mi-28N, Mi-8AMTSh.

Planned 20 Ka-52 for this Rgt, 4 delivered

And 2 New Su-35S fighters arriving to 159th Fighter Regiment at Besovets AB, Karelia
now 6 planned 12 a Sqn with one other on Su-27SM3 replace Su-27P/S.

With it 54 Su-35S del. on 98 ordered. Seems production of Su-30MK2 to KnAAPO, Komsomolsk finished now the line for new T-50.

3 plant build Sukhoi all in Siberia :
KnAAPO, Komsomolsk located with Dzemghi AB first have received Su-27 in 1985 and SU-35S ; build Su-35S, T-50, Su-27SM1/3 ( Su-27 P/S modernized ) before Su-27, Su-30M2, Su-30MK2 also Chinese Su-30MKK
Irkut Corporation, Irkoutsk Su-30SM, Yak-130
NAPO, Novosibirsk Su-34 before Su-30MKI

4th plant for fighter Mig
MiG MAPO, Nijni-Novgorod/Sokol Mig-29K/SMT/M, Mig-35 Mig-31 mobernised in BM before Mig-29/31

Possible the next base equiped with Su-35S is Khotilovo AB btw Moscow - St Petersbourg mixed Rgt with a Sqn of 18 Su-27S/P/UB and one with 19 Mig-31BM, 790th Rgt.

FORBIN said:

And 2 New Su-35S fighters arriving to 159th Fighter Regiment at Besovets AB, Karelia
now 6 planned 12 a Sqn with one other on Su-27SM3 replace Su-27P/S.

With it 54 Su-35S del. on 98 ordered. Seems production of Su-30MK2 to KnAAPO, Komsomolsk finished now the line for new T-50.

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In the meantime more with a nice gallery !

Here are pictured from inside the Russian carrier... no wonder it's not working properly and it was supposedly repaired/modernized in 2010.

Broccoli said:

Here are pictured from inside the Russian carrier... no wonder it's not working properly and it was supposedly repaired/modernized in 2010.

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huh Nov 11, 2016

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Oct 24, 2016

Jura said:

Project 22800 (taking out one '2' now hahaha)

ships being built at Pella Shipyard in

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... and the first one (the Uragan) is expected to be commissioned in December of next year (2017 says

Expert Opinion on Future Russian Navy Project 23560 Leader-class Nuclear-Powered Destroyers

Monday at 3:27 PM

Jura said:

nobody posted yet
Russian Su-33 crashed in the Mediterranean while attempting to land on Kuznetsov aircraft carrier
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reposting here from
Aircraft Carriers III https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/aircraft-carriers-iii.t7304/page-149#post-427671
now:

"... right now they do blame the pilot! (based on a source inside the Russian Navy Headquarters:

to the extent I understand the description, the pilot attempted to land at an angle too different from the allowed one)"

EDIT
and here are pictures of the lost Su-33 (#67 Red, serial #06305, says ):

So the pilots need better training.

(concerns the third Project 11356 ship, the Admiral Makarov (799)):

Jura said:

Oct 10, 2016

she's back (test-firing actually took place in the Barents Sea), to be commissioned until the end of this year:

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the final part of the trials is ongoing (in the Baltic Sea), includes also landings of

on deck during daylight and night operations, says