Su-35С on Kuriles fulfilled air fight over the sea

The fighters Su-35C of the aviation regiment deployed in Khabarovsk Krai, carried out doctrines near the Kuriles. The chief of the press service of East military district Alexander Gordeyev reported about it, broadcasts RIA Novosti news agency.

«During educational and training flights pilots of Su-35 executed elements of difficult pilotage, warplane piloting at extremely small and most admissible heights, fulfilled elements of conducting educational air fight over a surface of the water», – he noted.

Earlier it was reported that on October 9 Su-35C planes took part in doctrines over the Sea of Okhotsk and at the coast of Kamchatka. Fighters fulfilled support of anti-submarine Il-38 planes of sea aircraft of the Pacific fleet, carrying out of a task of search of the surface ships and submarines over water areas of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean near the Kuriles.

In Khabarovsk Krai (in airfield of Dzemgi near Komsomolsk-on-Amur) will develop the 23rd destructive aviaregiment of the 303rd mixed aviation division of the 3rd command of the Air Force and air defense – the front aviaregiment unique at present in Russia rearmed on Su-35C planes.

The regiment received the first planes of this type in December of the 2013th – January, 2014. Except the 23rd aviaregiment, Su-35C it was transferred to military only for tests (in the 929th flight-test center in Akhtubinska) and for a staff pereuchivaniye (in the Lipetsk aviacenter). In July, 2015 from plant the first party of new serial cars which intend for rearmament of the second front aviaregiment was reported; the 22nd destructive aviaregiment which is based on airfield Central Angular in Primorsky Krai should become them.

Su-35 – the multipurpose fighter of generation 4 ++, the last warplane constructed on the basis of the T-10C platform, become basis for fighters of family Su-27/Su-30 and their updatings. It is conceptually new warplane with aerodynamics of Su-27 and elements of the onboard radio-electronic equipment of fighting aircraft of the fifth generation. Within the existing state program of arms aerospace forces should receive 96 Su-35C planes till 2020.