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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