Showing posts with label Belarus Air Force. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belarus Air Force. Show all posts

October 27, 2017

Belarus’ Chinese-origin Polonez MLRS demonstrates effectiveness of 300km

Belarus carried out a test of its Polonez multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) in the Gomel region on Oct. 26 and the Chinese-supplied A200 rockets flew out to a range of 300km.





November 25, 2016

Belarus Air Force received four more Yak-130s







August 27, 2015

Belarus orders four more Yak-130s







The Belarusian Defense Ministry has signed a contract with the Russian corporation Irkut on buying another lot of four combat training aircraft Yak-130, the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA.

The contract was signed during the 12th international aviation and space salon MAKS, which is taking place in the exhibition center Russia in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast.

In April 2015 the Belarusian army received four Yak-130 aircraft. Once the new batch arrives, the Belarusian army will have a total of eight Yak-130s. Plans have been made to buy a sufficient number of Yak-130 combat training aircraft by 2020 to replace the L-39 aircraft the Belarusian army has now. The new aircraft will be able to carry out a wider set of missions in comparison with its predecessors.

August 14, 2015

Belarus to perform road runway operations again this year

Last year, Belarus MiG-29s and Su-25s landed and took off from stretch of motorway in Dzerzhinsk, Belarus Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Oleg Dvigalev just confirmed that the same exercise will be conducted this year.






April 28, 2015

Belarusian Air Force takes delivery of four Yak-130 trainer aircraft


A solemn ceremony to hand over four new training and light combat aircraft Yak-130 to personnel of the 116th guards assault airbase of the Belarusian Air Force took place at the Lida airfield on 27 April, reported yesterday the Belarusian newspaper BelTA. The four new aircraft will make up an independent wing as part of the airbase.








September 30, 2014

Belarus MiG-29 Military Review (30.09.2014)


Belarus sitting inbetween Poland and Russia has been smart to remain in the Russian sphere of influence.




September 1, 2014

Belarusian rocketeers successfully conducted live firing of the S-300 air defense systems








Belarusian rocketeers successfully conducted live firing range in the Russian Telemba. Calculations of the 15th air defense missile brigade of the 1st, 115th and 377th regiments of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces hit all the targets of the S-300 systems



July 12, 2014

Russia Gives Belarus Anti-Aircraft Systems Free of Charge





The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract to give Belarus four S-300 air defense systems, which are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, free of charge, a top Russian military official told ITAR-Tass on Thursday.The S-300 is one of the world's most sought after air defense systems. Its radar can hone in on aircraft, cruise missiles and even ballistic missiles, and destroy targets as far away as 150 kilometers, launching one missile every three seconds.The S-300s will be handed over as soon as the Belarussian Defense Ministry signs the contact, said Konstantin Biryulin, deputy director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation.
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