Orlovka (air base)

Orlovka (also given as Orlovke or Vernoye) is an interceptor aircraft base in Amur Oblast, Russia located 8 km north of Vernoye, in the Svobodny, Amur Oblast area. It is close to Ukrainka, a Long Range Aviation strategic bomber base. In the 1960s Orlovka was a deployment and dispersal airfield, then was upgraded in the early 1970s following an increase in military forces near the Chinese border after the Sino-Soviet split.[1][2] Orlovka is a hardened airfield with a large central tarmac area.

For the town in Kyrgyzstan, see Orlovka, Kyrgyzstan.
Orlovka
Summary
Airport typeMilitary
OperatorRussian Air Force
LocationVernoye
Elevation AMSL850 ft / 259 m
Coordinates51°15′48″N 128°43′12″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
8,202 2,500 Concrete

Units stationed at Orlovka include:

  • 404 IAP (404th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with MiG-23P and then Su-27. It was commissioned in 1974 and decommissioned in 2000.[3] The 404 IAP was dissolved into 23 IAP at Dzemgi.
  • 41 IAP (41st Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with the MiG-29 starting in 1987.[4]

References
  1. SOVIET DEPLOYMENT AND DISPERSAL AIRFIELDS ALONG THE CHINA BORDER AND IN MONGOLIA, CIA-RDP78T05162A000200010005-4, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, August 1, 1971.
  2. CABLE (SANITIZED) FROM NPIC, CIA-RDP78B03826A000500020069-3, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, July 16, 1971.
  3. "Discussions, avia.ru forum". Avia.ru. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
  4. "37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK". Brinkster.com.


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