Baranavichy military airfield
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| Height above MSL | 183 m (600 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 6 km northwest of Baranavichy | ||
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| operator | Belarusian Air Force | ||
The Baranavichy military airfield is located six kilometers northwest of Baranavichy in Breszkaya Woblasz in western Belarus .
history
The German air force used the airfield at the beginning of the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. At that time it was in the so-called Generalgouvernement in the so-called Generalgouvernement near the border with the Soviet Union in Poland, which was occupied by the German Reich .
The following table shows a list of all active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Luftwaffe that were stationed here between 1941 and 1944.
| from | to | unit | equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 1941 | June 1941 | 5th (H) / Enlightenment group 23 (5th season of local reconnaissance group 23) | |
| June 1941 | July 1941 | Staff, III./StG 1 ( III.Group of Sturzkampfgeschwader 1) | Junkers Ju 87R |
| July 1941 | July 1941 | II./KG 3 (II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 3) | Junkers Ju 88A |
| July 1941 | July 1941 | KGr zbV 102 (Combat Group for Special Use 102) | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m |
| October 1943 | March 1944 | 4. (F) / Enlightenment group 121 (4th season of long-range reconnaissance group 121 | Junkers Ju 88D-1, Junkers Ju 88D-5 |
| October 1943 | July 1944 | 4. (F) / Enlightenment group 14th | Junkers Ju 88D-1, Junkers Ju 188F-1 |
| November 1943 | May 1944 | 1. (F) / Aufkl.Gr. 100 | Junkers Ju 88D-1, Junkers Ju 88D-5, Junkers Ju 86R-1 , Arado Ar 240V8 |
| December 1943 | June 1944 | 4. (F) / Enlightenment group 11 | Junkers Ju 188F-1 |
| March 1944 | March 1944 | III./JG 51 ( III.Group of Jagdgeschwader 51) | Messerschmitt Bf 109G |
| May 1944 | June 1944 | Staff, I., II./KG 3 | Junkers Ju 88A |
| June 1944 | June 1944 | II./KG 4 | Heinkel He 111H |
| June 1944 | July 1944 | II./SG 1 (II. Group of the battle squadron 1) | Henschel Hs 129 |
| June 1944 | July 1944 | IV./JG 54 | Focke-Wulf Fw 190A |
During the Cold War , around 30 Tupolev Tu-22 medium -range bombers were stationed at the Soviet air force base from the 1960s to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 .
With the independence of Belarus, the base was taken over by the Belarusian armed forces in 1992 and the 61st fighter regiment was stationed initially with 13 MiG-25 interceptors , 25 MiG- 23 interceptors and 23 Sukhoi Su-27P interceptors or air superiority fighters . By the end of 2012, the last 21 Su-27 fighter planes were decommissioned.
In 2009 the Belarusian-Russian strategic military maneuver ZAPAD-2009 also took place in the Baranavichy area. Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka visited the air base on September 29, 2009 together with his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev .
The International Institute for Peace Research in Stockholm (SIPRI) suspected 2011 Belarus on March 1, during the civil war in Libya to have delivered a greater amount of weapons to Libya. On February 15, 2011, an Il-76 transport aircraft, presumably loaded with weapons and ammunition, is said to have flown from the Baranavichy air base to the Libyan military airfield in Sabha . Members of the clan around the Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi are also said to have flown from Tripoli to Belarus in a Falcon 900 business jet in the past few days .
On March 17, 2014, the Russian Air Force announced the stationing of a fighter regiment with 24 Su-27SM3 at the Baranavichy Air Force Base for joint air surveillance and protection by the end of 2014 . So far, four Russian Su-27SM3s and one AWACS A-50 aircraft have been stationed there.
The 120th Belarusian air defense brigade is stationed near the air force base and has been equipped with the modern Tor-M2E anti-aircraft missile system with guided missiles of the type 9K332 since 2012 .
Not far in Hanzavichy Raion , the Russian space forces operate an early warning radar station ( active phased array radar ) of the Volga type.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Poland. (PDF; 3.3 MB) June 2014, pp. 2–3 , accessed on December 8, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Belarus ready to redesign decommissioned Su-27 (en) ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Belarus sends arms to Libya. In: News.com.au. March 1, 2011, accessed July 7, 2019 .
- ↑ ITAR-TASS: 24 Russian Su-27SM3 to be deployed in Belarus by end of 2014 from March 17, 2014
- ↑ New Russian pilots stationed at Baranovichi airfield. In: charter97.org. March 6, 2014, accessed July 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Belarus: Tor-M1 Still at Baranovichi ( Memento from June 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Location of the radar transmitter
- ↑ Location of the radar receiver