Domna (air base)
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 Su-30SM at Domna. | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Location | Chita | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,280 ft / 695 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°55′0″N 113°7′0″E / 51.91667°N 113.11667°E | ||||||||||
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Domna is a Russian Air Force base in Chita, Russia located 27 km southwest of Chita. It is a large, hardened facility with six areas of revetments probably holding 50 fighter aircraft. MiG-23 aircraft from Domna were deployed to Shindand, Afghanistan in the late 1980s.
According to the Russian Wikipedia, the unit at the base is now the 120th Composite Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-29s and Sukhoi Su-25s.
Based units
Units stationed at Domna include:
- 733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment (733 BAP) flying Su-24 aircraft from 1975 to 1987. The regiment arrived at Domna in July 1966. Su-24M aircraft arrived in 1984. The regiment was disbanded in July 1987.[1]
- 120th Fighter Aviation Regiment (120 IAP) The regiment was established in 1969 at Bereza-Osovitsy, Brest Oblast. In July 1971, possibly as part of the buildup against the People's Republic of China, it was moved to Domna. In 1978 it converted to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, and in 1993 to the Mikoyan MiG-29.[2] It was part of the 23rd Air Army from 1988 to 1998, the 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army from 1998 to circa 2009, the 3rd AF & AD Command 2009–2015, and now the 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.
- 125 Gv ORAP (125th Guards Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R in the late 1980s and as many as 26 Su-24MR aircraft around 1990.
- 114 BAP (114th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft; decommissioned around 1992.
The units at the base are now part of the 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army of the Eastern Military District.
Four Su-30SM fighter aircraft from Domna were deployed to Khmeimim Air Base, Syria, on September 18, 2015.[3]
Domna means "blast furnace" in Russian.
References
- ^ "733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ^ "120th Fighter Aviation Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ^ Lavrov, Anton (June 2018). "The Russian Air Campaign in Syria: A Preliminary Analysis" (PDF). CNA. p. 9.
Further reading
- Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
External links
- Домна — аэродром, гарнизон, посёлок (in Russian)
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