Photo: author’s archive
Photo: author’s archive
HISTORY
Mi-24P is taking off from the detached airport equipped with four B-8V20 rocket launchers for 80 mm unguided missiles S-8 and there are possibly four older anti-aircraft guided
missiles attached on wing tip hard points. Note that these missiles have been used, and still are, as the only guided ordinance for the Czech AF i-24v/Mi-35. Mi-24P sports the
white identification markings in two forms. Letter “Z” was attempted on the fuselage and there are three white stripes on the boom. This type of marking was probably intended to
confuse the Ukrainian troops who from a distance could recognize the Russian Hinds painted in the way as their own because The Ukrainian army air force since 2014 has been
using a marking in the form of a pair of white stripes painted on the tail boom. The stars next to “Z” were left intact but the nose number and the identification number RF-xxxx were
overpainted most likely with the white stripes.
Notes
1 - According to scramble.nl Su-27 “blue 23” attached in August
2021 to 39. BrTA at Ozerne air base near Zhytomyr. This initial Soviet-made Su-27 version is designated as Su-27S on this website
as well as all other “western” sources. We will stick to the original
owner’s designation i.e., without a letter S.
Abbreviations
BAP – Bombardirovochnyi Aviacionnyi Polk VKS RF (Aviation Bombardment Squadron of
the Air-Cosmic forces of the Russian Federation)
BrTA – Bryhada Taktychnoyi Aviatsiyi (Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force)
CAP – Combat Air Patrol
“Raven” – Russian nickname for Su-25
LOC – Line of Control, front line in the Luhansk and Donetsk areas created after the
Ukrainian army fighting with the separatists and Russian troops during 2014-15.
REB – ECM (Electronic Countermeasures)
NABr – Navchalna Aviatsiyna Bryhada (Aviation Training Brigade of the Ukrainian Air
Force)
OBrTrA – Bryhada Transportnoyi Aviatsiyi (Aviation Transport Brigade of the Ukrainian
Air Force)
QRA NATINAMDS – Quick Reaction Alert NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense System
VDV – Vozdushno-desantnye voyska (Airborne Units)
VKS RF – Vozdushno-kosmicheskye sily Rossijskoj Federacii (Air-cosmic forces of the
Russian Federation)
VMF RF – Vojenno-morskoj flot Rossijskoj Federacii (Navy of the Russian Federation
VVS-SA – Vojenno vozdushnye sily Sovetskoy armii (Military Air Force of the Soviet
Army)
June 2022
Sources
James Marson – Putin thought Ukraine will fall quickly. The battle at
the airport terminal showed he was wrong. The Wall Street Journal,
March 3, 2022
Sebastien Roblin – Pictures: In Battle for Hostomel, Ukraine Drove
Back Russia’s Attack Helicopters and Elite Paratroopers. 19FortyFive, 25. února 2022
Stijn Mitzer a Joost Oliemans (Oryx) – Destination Disaster: Russia’s Failure At Hostomel Airport
Tom Cooper – Russian Heliborne Assault on Antonov / Hostomel
Airport seems to have failed. Theaviationgeekclub.com, 25. února
2022
Tomáš Soušek – Letectva NATO air forces in the Eastern Europe,
L+K 4/2022
ACIG – Tom Cooper (1 2)
Oryx (documentation of the destroyed military hardware based on
the pictures and videos) (1 2)
Russian losses of the military equipment (1)
Ukrainian losses of the military equipment (1)
Russian and Ukrainian aircraft losses (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14)
The article is takeover from www.czechairforce.com
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