Orlovka (air base)
Orlovka | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
Location | Vernoye | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 850 ft / 259 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°15′48″N 128°43′12″E / 51.26333°N 128.72000°ECoordinates: 51°15′48″N 128°43′12″E / ���51.26333°N 128.72000°E | ||||||||||
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Orlovka (also given as Orlovke or Vernoye) is an interceptor aircraft base in Amur Oblast, Russia located 8 km north of Vernoye, in the Svobodny, Amur Oblast area. It is close to Ukrainka, a Long Range Aviation strategic bomber base. In the 1960s Orlovka was a deployment and dispersal airfield, then was upgraded in the early 1970s following an increase in military forces near the Chinese border after the Sino-Soviet split.[1][2] Orlovka is a hardened airfield with a large central tarmac area.
Units stationed at Orlovka include:
- 404 IAP (404th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with MiG-23P and then Su-27. It was commissioned in 1974 and decommissioned in 2000.[3] The 404 IAP was dissolved into 23 IAP at Dzemgi.
- 41 IAP (41st Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with the MiG-29 starting in 1987.[4]
References[]
- ^ SOVIET DEPLOYMENT AND DISPERSAL AIRFIELDS ALONG THE CHINA BORDER AND IN MONGOLIA, CIA-RDP78T05162A000200010005-4, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, August 1, 1971.
- ^ CABLE (SANITIZED) FROM NPIC, CIA-RDP78B03826A000500020069-3, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, July 16, 1971.
- ^ "Discussions, avia.ru forum". Avia.ru. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
- ^ "37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK". Brinkster.com.
Categories:
- Soviet Air Force bases
- Soviet Frontal Aviation
- Soviet Air Defence Force bases
- Russian Air Force bases
- Russian military stubs