The experimental combat duty increases the zone of controlled airspace over the Northern Sea Route, according to the Northern Fleet’s press office.
MOSCOW, March 12.
/TASS/. The crews of deck-based MiG-29K fighters have gone on experimental
combat duty on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic for the first time,
the Northern Fleet’s press office reported on Friday.
"The replacement
of the flight personnel and MiG-31BM fighters of a seperate composite aviation
regiment took place at the Northern Fleet’s Rogachyovo airfield. They were
replaced for the first time by pilots of deck-based MiG-29K fighters of the
100th shipborne aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet’s Air Force and Air
Defense Army," the press office said in a statement.
The experimental
combat duty by pilots of the Northern Fleet’s Air Force and Air Defense Army on
the Novaya Zemlya archipelago expands the area of employing the Fleet’s fighter
aviation in the Arctic and increases the zone of controlled airspace over the
Northern Sea Route, the statement says.
An anti-aircraft missile
regiment of the Northern Fleet’s 45th Air Force and Air Defense Army armed with
S-400 ‘Triumf’ surface-to-air missile systems assumed combat duty on the Novaya
Zemlya archipelago several years ago.
The 100th shipborne
aviation regiment is outfitted with generation 4+ MiG-29K fighters. The
regiment’s pilots participated in the long-distance deployment of the Northern
Fleet’s carrier group in the Mediterranean Sea led by Russia’s heavy
aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov.
Source: ITAR-TASS
12-03-2021
