On June 3, 2017, the first two multi-purpose Su-30SM fighter aircraft arrived in the composition of the 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 105th Mixed Air Division of the 6th Leningrad Red Banner Army Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District at the
airfield Khalino (Kursk), marking Thus the beginning of the actual rearmament of the
regiment with the "Algerian" fighters MiG-29SMT currently on its armament for the Su-30SM fighters. Both the arriving Su-30SM fighter with the red airborne numbers "71" and "72" (the probable serial numbers 10МК5 1412 and 10МК5 1413) built the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ) of the PJSC "Irkut Corporation" made an independent flight to Khalino from Irkutsk within 2 -3 June.
These aircraft were built by the IAZ in the framework of the State Defense Order of 2017, and became the second batch of SU-30SM fighters transferred to the Russian Defense Ministry in 2017 - earlier in late May two Su-30SM fighters with blue 71 and 72 Serial numbers 10МК5 1410 and 10МК5 1411) were transferred to the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy and became part of the 72nd aviation base of the Baltic Fleet aviation at the Chernyakhovsk airfield (Kaliningrad Region).
In total, since 2012, 116 Su-30SM aircraft have been contracted for the Ministry of Defense of Russia, of which 88 are intended for the Russian Air Force (VCS), and another 28 for the Navy of the Russian Navy. To date, the Russian Air Force under the signed contracts thus obtained 68 Su-30SM fighters (of which 10 in 2016 and the two new ones in Khalino in 2017), and Marine Aviation - 17 (of which seven in 2016 and two in 2017).
The plans for the rearmament of the 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (two-squadron convoy) from the MiG-29SMT fighters to Su-30SM fighters became known in 2016. In November, it was officially reported that the pilots of the 14th regiment arrived at the 4th Training and Retraining Center in Lipetsk for retraining for Su-30SM fighters.
The official message of the ZVO's press service on the arrival of the first two Su-30SM in the 14th Aviation Regiment says that "the fleet of the military unit will be fully re-equipped before the end of the year." In total, the regiment will include six more Su-30SM fighters. " Judging by the well-known IAZ production plans for 2017, the statement about the "complete rearmament of the end of the year" of the 14th regiment is premature,
and by obtaining "6 more shipments of Su-30SM fighters" it is meant to receive the 14th regiment by the end of 2017, another 12 Aircraft.
It can be assumed that the MiG-29SMT fighters, freed from the re-equipment of the 14th regiment, having a small age, will go to manning any new aviation regiment.
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