Domna (air base)

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Domna AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 12/30 2,500 metres (8,202 ft) Concrete

Domna is a

in the late 1980s.

The base is home to the 120th Composite Aviation Regiment, flying Mikoyan MiG-29s and Sukhoi Su-25s.^[1]

In 1937-1938, the personnel of the

heavy bomber aviation squadron, based in the Domna garrison, were the first in the country to undergo retraining and master the most modern aircraft of that time - SB high-speed bombers.

In 1939, the 38th High-Speed Bomber Aviation Regiment, based at the airfield, took part in the

. With the outbreak of war on June 22, 1941, the regiment, which was armed with 45 SB aircraft, began dismantling the aircraft and from June 22 to 26 was sent to the front in five echelons. Under regiment commander Mikhail Moiseevich Svinarev (1910 - 08/04/1942), the regiment was part of the 28th Aviation Division.

Based units

Units stationed at Domna include:

• 733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment (733 BAP) flying Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft from 1975 to 1987. The regiment arrived at Domna in July 1966. Su-24M aircraft arrived in 1984. The regiment was disbanded in July 1987.^[2]
• Brest Oblast. In July 1971, possibly as part of the buildup against the People's Republic of China, it was moved to Domna. In 1978 it converted to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, and in 1993 to the Mikoyan MiG-29.^[3] It was part of the 23rd Air Army from 1988 to 1998, the 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army from 1998 to circa 2009, the 3rd AF & AD Command 2009–2015, and now the 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
  .
• 125 Gv ORAP (125th Guards Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying
  Su-24MR
  aircraft around 1990.
• 114 BAP (114th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft; decommissioned around 1992.

The units at the base are now part of the 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army of the Eastern Military District.

Four Su-30SM fighter aircraft from Domna were deployed to Khmeimim Air Base, Syria, on September 18, 2015.^[4]

Domna means "blast furnace" in Russian.

References

1. ^ "Domna (UIAD)". Scramble.nl. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
2. ^ "733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
3. ^ "120th Fighter Aviation Regiment". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
4. ^ Lavrov, Anton (June 2018). "The Russian Air Campaign in Syria: A Preliminary Analysis" (PDF). CNA. p. 9.

Further reading

• Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.

External links

• Домна — аэродром, гарнизон, посёлок (in Russian)

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