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Photo: Su-33.
Russian naval aircrafts arrived to training center NITKA, Crimea, informs Rosbalt referring to Ukrainian defense ministry press service.
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Russian fighters resumed training in Crimea
08/23/2010 |
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Training flights will last since the end of Aug till Sent 30. Aircrews of Su-33, Su-27UB, and Su-25UTG will pass the training period. In total, ten deck-based fighters will attend the drills.
We recall that the pilots of 279th shipborne fighter regiment had been regularly training at NITKA system till 2008. After Russian-Georgian conflict, on Aug 2008 Ukrainian foreign ministry considered further practice of Russian pilots in Crimea inappropriate. That ban was a kind of Ukraine's reaction on Black Sea Fleet involvement in combat actions off Georgian coast.
Ground-based aircraft training system NITKA is a special training simulator which imitates a deck of an aircraft carrier and used for practicing deck takeoff and landing techniques. Located at Novofedorovka airbase (near Saki, Crimea), it constitutes an airfield with a metal deck-like runway equipped with all needed facilities, including ski-ramp and arresters. Dimensions of the airfield are equivalent to the flight deck of heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov.