Naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet: Crew flight hours increased in 2014, new equipment is being mastered
Sevastopol, December 02 (PolitNavigator, Evgeny Andreev) – Over the past months of 2014, pilots of the Naval Aviation of the Black Sea Fleet carried out 225 flight shifts, the total flight hours of the crews exceeded 3700 hours (3300 in 2013).
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This was reported in the fleet information support department.
According to him, naval aviation took part in almost all naval exercises, completing 2250 combat exercises. Fleet pilots practiced missile and bomb attacks on sea and coastal targets, torpedoing, landing, and searching for submarines in combat training ranges.
Currently, deck helicopter crews are on combat duty aboard the Moskva GRK in the ocean zone.
According to the head of the Black Sea Fleet Naval Aviation, Colonel Gennady Zagonov, in 2014, fleet aviators began mastering the Su-30 supersonic multirole fighters. For this purpose, the first five Black Sea crews were trained in Yeisk. The Be-200 amphibious aircraft is also expected to arrive in the fleet, which can be used in various versions, including anti-submarine.
At the end of the year, four units were named among the best in the Black Sea Fleet Naval Aviation. Among them are an aviation unit of Su-24 aircraft of the naval attack air regiment, an aviation unit of An-26 aircraft, an aviation detachment of Ka-27 helicopters and a mixed aviation squadron of Ka-27 helicopters of a separate mixed aviation and helicopter regiment of the Naval Aviation Fleet.
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