Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) bases (Locations, units & equipment)

The Yerevan Helicopter Squadron has been replaced by Ka-52 and Mi-8MTV-5.

In the last image of Google Maps you can see 4 Ka-52 and 10 new Mi-8. At least one of them is Mi-8MTRP-1, there are probably 2 and the other 8 would be standard helicopters.
All these helicopters come from the bases of the South Milotar District where the pilots have been training.

In addition, 4 Su-30SM have appeared in Yerevan, which are probably temporarily loaned from Kursk (the Armenian Su-30SM are in Gyumri)
It is quite likely that the MiG-29 will be replaced by 16 Su-30SM2 once the president of Armenia, lackey of Soros, seems to have come to his senses and has allowed the renewal of the Russian Air Group in Armania


https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B047'00.0%22N+43%C2%B050'00.0%22E/@40.1255019,44.472203,329m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x3ce852f1f311767b!8m2!3d40.7833333!4d43.8333333

Millerovo is switching to Su-35S from Su-30SM however looks presently like it may actually be a squadron of Mig-29SMT and Su-30SM. Have anything on that?

4 mig 29smt were sent in Syria.

franco wrote:Millerovo is switching to Su-35S from Su-30SM however looks presently like it may actually be a squadron of Mig-29SMT and Su-30SM. Have anything on that?

Millerovo currently uses only the Su-30SM, it received 20 as the other 4 were assigned to the GLITs.
It has not received any Su-35 yet, it will probably receive them in 2022.

Meanwhile the Kursk Su-30SMs have also been loaned as doubles to Khotilovo and Besovets awaiting new Su-30SM2s.
The 4 there are in Armenia must also be from Kursk judging by the number of Su-30SMs left in Kursk

The MiG-29SMTs that have passed through Syria were mainly from Astrakhan
those from Kursk ended service in 2017 when the Su-30SM arrived.
It is not clear whether the MiG-29SMT stored in Kursk will be sold to Syria or some other country, or will be left in reserve or also go to Asttakhan

Severomorsk-2 (Safonovo) airfield is reused for naval aviation
In addition to a squadron of UAVs, a squadron of Mi-8s from the 830th Mixed Helicopter Regiment of the Northern Fleet has been based.
This squadron has at least 8 or 9 Helicopters, including 6 Mi-8MTV-5, one Mi-8AMT-1 (VIP) and 1 and 2 Soviet Mi-8MT
In addition to the 7 helicopters in the image, there is one destined in Talagi airport and another one is usually in Monchegorsk

https://www.google.com/maps/place/69%C2%B004'00.0%22N+33%C2%B025'00.0%22E/@69.0251216,33.2926846,617m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d69.066667!4d33.416667?hl=en



Regarding the helicopter units of the Navy Air Force, the current deployment, prior to the Special Military Operation, was approximately

Northern Fleet:
830th Mixed Helicopter Regiment (it is forming)
-Shipborne Anti-Submarine Helicopter Squadron: 12 Ka-27PL/M
-Shipborne Helicopter Squad: 6 Ka-27PS, 2 Ka-29
-Transport Helicopter Squadron: 6 Mi-8MTV-5, 2 Mi-8MT, 1 Mi-8AMT-1

Baltic Fleet:
396 Mixed Helicopter Regiment
-Shipborne Helicopter Squadron: 10 Ka-27PL/M, 4 Ka-27PS, 2 Ka-29, 1 Ka-27E
-Attack Helicopter Squadron: 16 Mi-24V/P
-Transport Helicopter Squadron 10 Mi-8

Black Sea Fleet:
One Helicopter Squadron in the 318th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment with:
8 Ka-27PL/M , 4 Ka-27PS, 2 Ka-29 . 2 Ka-31 , 5 Mi-8MT

Pacific Fleet:
289th Mixed Aviation Regiment (Nikolayevka) with: 10 Ka-27PL/M, 6 Ka-27PS, 6 Ka-29, 4 Mi-8MT
Ka-27PS and Mi-8MT of this regiment also go to Mongokhto

One Helicopter Squadron of 317º Mised Aviation Regiment (Yelizovo) with: 4 Ka-27PL/M, 4 Ka-27PS, 4 Ka-29, 2 Mi-8MT, 1 Mi-8AMTSh-VA

Ttaining
859 TsBPiPLS Yeisk: One Shipborne Helicopter Squadron: 2 Ka-27PL/M, 4 Ka-28, 2 Ka-27PS, 2 Ka-29


The total helicopters in Navy are:
50 antisubmarine: 46 Ka-27PL/M and 4 Ka-28
26 Ka-27PS
18 Ka-29
1 Ka-27E (NBQ)
2 Ka-31 EW
Total: 97 Kamov
31 Mi-8
16 Mi-24

two years ago was formed one mixed transport aviation squadron in Plestesk (Mirny), the same day of the 81º VTAP of Ivanovo
It was not clear to which regiment this squadron belonged, despite being created at the same time as the Ivanovo Regiment and that base is the closest to the Plesetsk cosmodrome

https://vk.com/wall-39149932_23113

Unofficial site of the city of Mirny
Dec 8, 2020
Military transport aviation has returned to the spaceport!

On December 1, on the basis of the aviation commandant's office of the Plesetsk airfield, a mixed aviation squadron of the 566th military transport aviation Solnechnogorsk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Regiment was formed

On the day of the beginning of the new academic year, the first solemn formation of the personnel of the formed squadron took place on the Mirny land. For more than 50 years, the aviation units that were part of the cosmodrome have successfully carried out the tasks of aviation support for spacecraft launches and testing of strategic missile systems.
Thanks to the active and direct participation of the cosmodrome command, military aviation returned to the Mirny garrison. Now aviation life begins again at the Plesetsk airfield. It will be carried out by the personnel of a young aviation unit - a mixed aviation squadron consisting of airplanes, helicopters and the first crew of unmanned aerial vehicles in the military transport aviation

The squadron belongs to Sescha's 566th VTAP regiment and is equipped with 6 Mi-8MTV--5 at least 2 An-26.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/62%C2%B042'32.0%22N+40%C2%B017'38.0%22E/@62.7220262,40.493391,395m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d62.708889!4d40.293889?hl=en

Another small unit that doesn't usually appear in ORBATs:

35th Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron, (35º OSAE) Kasputin Yar Aerodrome , Znamensk , Astrakhan Oblast (the aerodrome is in reality inside limits of Volgograd countryside)
Former 158th Separate Mixed Air Regiment (158º OSAP) of the Strategic Missile Forces reformated and transferred to the Russian Air Force in 2009

The squadron is probably subordinated to the GLITs from the nearby Akhtubinsk base, but I have not found absolute confirmation of this.
It could also be subordinated to the VTA to the Southern Military District

The squadron has 2 An-72, about 5 An-26 and about 6 Mi-8
(up to 8 An-26 can be seen in the image, but several must be from other bases, normally so many An-26 have never been seen here)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/48%C2%B035'00.0%22N+45%C2%B045'00.0%22E/@48.6655255,45.730377,569m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x5432f8ac13471d5c!8m2!3d48.583333!4d45.75


Planes and helicopters have tactical numbers in blue.


However, there is no An-72 with the blue tactical number, which at first seemed strange,
In the satellite it can be seen that the two An-72 have the upper part of the blue wings, which gives a definitive clue to identify the An-72 of that base.

 AMCXXL Today at 8:45 am

Another small unit that doesn't usually appear in ORBATs:

35th Separate Mixed air Squadron, (35º OSAE) Kasputin Yar Aerodrom , Znamensk , Astrakhan Oblast (the aerodrome is in reality inside limits of Volgograd countryside)
Former 158th Separate Mixed Air Regiment (158º OSAP) of the Strategic Missile Forces reformated and transferred to the Russian Air Force in 2009

The squadron is probably subordinated to the GLITs from the nearby Akhtubinsk base, but I have not found absolute confirmation of this.
It could also be subordinated to the VTA to the Southern Military District

The squadron has 2 An-72, about 5 An-26 and about 6 Mi-8
(up to 8 An-26 can be seen in the image, but several must be from other bases, normally so many An-26 have never been seen here)

I have wondered if the transport aircraft and helicopters at both Aktyubinsk and Astrakhan may be administratively subordinate to this unit.

@franco

I have wondered if the transport aircraft and helicopters at both Aktyubinsk and Astrakhan may be administratively subordinate to this unit

No, 35º OSAE is a separate/independent squadron. Is a military unit for itself (military unit 33782)
That means that it is not subordinated to another higher regiment or division but to a Army or similar size branch at least three ranks higher.
When a regiment has subordinate squadrons or detachments, their military unit number is the same: xxxxx-2, xxxxx-3 etc...

For example, each Air Army has an Independent Mixed Transport Regiment and each Navy Fleet has at least one independent transport squadron or an independent mixed regiment with one  transport squadron, which do not depend on any division.

Each division or unit of similar size may have a "control detachment" (otrod upravleniya) or a "zveno" ("link", company type) that is not subordinated to the regiments or squadrons of that division but directly to the command of the division size unit



In the case of Aktubisnk's planes, there are flight units that depend organically on the 929th GLITs (which is not part of the Air Force, but the Ministry of Defense, it has more than three dozen of branches) but the flight units of GLITs depend operationally of the Air Force.

In Akhtubinsk there was 267 ITs, which was the unit that operates the fighters, there was also the 75th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment with transport planes and helicopters, etc., but this unit was reduced to a squadron more than 20 years ago and then it was dissolved and unify with other units that I'm not sure how it was, in any case in Akhtubisnk there is a transport squadron with 8-9 An-72, some An-26, several own helicopters and a 3 Tu-134. The An-12s were decommissioned several years ago

An-72 of the separate mixed transport squadron of the Akhtubinsk branch of the GLITs. It has the GLITs symbol and the red tactical numbar


Tu-134 of the separate mixed transport squadron of the Akhtubinsk branch of the GLITs






In the case of Astrakhan, there is a "control detachment" of the 185th TsBP (Training Center)  with 2 An-26 and 4 Mi-8 that depends directly of the chief of the Training Center and no of the 116th Training Regiment with MiG-29 and Su-35

https://www.google.com/maps/place/46%C2%B020'00.0%22N+48%C2%B001'00.0%22E/@46.3916645,47.8834319,297m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xd785bb1f96feab8e!8m2!3d46.333333!4d48.016667



The aircraft of 185th TsBP "control detachment" have blue tactical numbers

On the military reform, the creation of two military districts, Moscow and Leningrad with the units of West Military District:


Leningrad Military District will receive from West MD the 6º Air Army command, and:

- 159 IAP Besovets
- 33 OTSAP Levashovo
- 332 OVP Pushkin to convert to Brigade
- 15 BrAA Ostrov

Taking into account that Leningrad MD has to face NATO in the Baltic and on the borders of the Baltic countries and predictably in Finland it should be a strong district like the South district
It will be necesary the creation of:

- Figrher Regiment for the new Su-57 (probably receive first Su-27SM or Su-27P) . Maybe based at Siversky or Gromovo
- One Bomber Regiment for the new Su-34 .  Could be based in Soltsy or Siversky

Also could receive regiments of Kaliningrad (689 IAP) and North Fleet (98 SAP Monchegorsk) becoming a powerful Air Army
I dont like Monchegorsk regiment in the North Fleet that only need rebuild its own Naval Aviation



About the New Moscow MD is necesary to create a new Air Army that will receive from West MD:

- 790 IAP Khotilovo
- 14 IAP Kursk
- 47 BAP Voronezh
- 4º Squadron Shatalovo, the base for a new bomber regiment) ?
- 440 OVP Vyazma
- Composite Squadron of 33 OTSAP (Vladimir)

Then, at least is necesary to create a new Independent Transport Mixed Regiment, probably based also in Voronezh
Probably is also necesary other helicopter Brigade in Belgorod area for the 20 Army

In the satellite is possible to see 12 spaces for transport airplanes (46 meters width) and 20 spaces for helicopters (22 meters width)
The joke is that there are no planes for that, if the ones from Levashovo that had 8 An-12 are distributed, they will get 4 or 5 and they could also get some 6-8 An-26
The image is at least of 2021 or before

With the forming of several ''new'' military districts there will be some changes in the ORBAT of the Russian Air Force, so I made it a separate topic.

I start with a question of several units which were formerly under command (some years ago) of the RVSN but later transferred to Air Force control.

Do these units still exists and what is the higher echelon were they are subordinated to.

10th OVE Tatischevo Mi-8

38th OVE Kozelsk

54th OVE Balkhash

60th OVE Teykovo

68th OVE Uzhur

84th OVE Dombarovskiy-Nasnaya

98th (O?)SAE Vladimir

108th OVE Yoshkar-Ola

207th OVE Pashino

224th OVE Yurya

225th OVE Nishniy Tagil

329th OSAP Klyuch (An-12BK, An-26 and Mi-

And last but not least
Not a former RVSN unit
42 TsBP ZRB Ashuluk (Surface-to-air missiles and areal targets) Does this still exists?

Sincerely
Lesley

Do the following units still exists or are they renumbered/relocated?

8th Special Air Division Tshaikovsky

206 Special Designation Aviation .... (1x Il-20, 1x Il-22M, 2x Il-22, 11x Mi-8MTV-5)

223 VTAP Tshaikovsky (Tu-134A3, Tu-154B2, Il-76)

353 VTAP Tshaikovsky (5x An-12, 5x An-26, 8x An-72, 1x Il-76)

354 VTAP Tshaikovsky (An-148, Il-18D, Il-62M, L-410, Tu-134)