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Dorokhovo (air base)

Dorokhovo (also Bezhetsk, Bezhetsk, or Dorokhov) is a former air base in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It was a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space. In 1967 it received some of the first Sukhoi Su-15 (Flagon) interceptors.

It was home to 611th Fighter Aviation Regiment (611 IAP) flying 39 Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s.[1] It also had MiG-31 aircraft.[2][3] From the 1960s to the 1990s the regiment was part of the 3rd Air Defence Corps of the Moscow Air Defence District.

References

  1. ^ "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI.
  2. ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
  3. ^ "611th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 4 December 2022.