This year, the
military parade will involve 73 crews of tactical, long-range, military
transport and army aviation
MOSCOW, April 6.
/TASS/. A pair of Russia’s cutting-edge Su-57 fighter jets will fly for the
first time over Moscow’s Red Square during the Victory Parade on May 9, the
Defense Ministry announced on Friday.
"This year, the
military parade will involve 73 crews of tactical, long-range, military
transport and army aviation… Two Su-57 planes will take part in the
parade," the ministry said.
Apart from the
5th-generation fighter jets, strategic Tu-160 and Tu-95MS missile-carrying
aircraft, Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, Il-78 aerial refueling tankers and
Il-76MD military transport planes will fly over Moscow’s Red Square on Victory
Day.
The parade flight
formation will include Mi-26, Mi-8, Mi-28N, Ka-52 and Mi-35 helicopters,
Su-35S, Su-30SM. MiG-29 and MiG-31BM fighter jets, Su-34 and Su-24M bombers
while Su-25 attack aircraft will traditionally emit the smoke in the colors of
the Russian flag.
As Russia’s Defense
Ministry said, all the Aerospace Force’s crews involved in the parade had
redeployed by Friday from the places of their permanent basing to operational
aerodromes. Combat aircraft will take off from eight airfields in the Moscow,
Tver, Saratov, Kaluga, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Nizhny Novgorod Regions to fly to
the Victory Parade.
"Army aviation
crews will fly at an altitude of 150 meters and at a speed of 200 km per hour.
The crews of tactical, long-range and military transport aircraft will fly at
an altitude of 300 to 500 meters at a speed of up to 600 km per hour," the
Defense Ministry of Russia said.
Su-57 fighter
The Russian
fifth-generation Perspective Aviation Complex of Frontline Aviation (PAK FA)
fighter jet took to the skies for the first time in 2010.
As was reported in
August 2017, Russia’s PAK FA fifth-generation fighter jet received the serial
index of Su-57. The cutting-edge fighter performed its first flight with a new
engine on December 5, 2017.
The experimental
design work on the most advanced fighter jet should be completed in 2019 and
its deliveries to the troops should begin at that time. As the United Aircraft
Corporation’s chief executive said, the pre-production batch will consist of 12
such planes.
Source: ITAR-TASS
07-04-2018
