Morozovsk (air base)

Coordinates: 48°18′52″N 041°47′10″E / 48.31444°N 41.78611°E / 48.31444; 41.78611
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Morozovsk
Morozovsk, Morozovsky District, Rostov Oblast in Russia
Morozovsk is located in Rostov Oblast
Morozovsk
Morozovsk
Shown within Rostov Oblast, Russia
Morozovsk is located in Russia
Morozovsk
Morozovsk
Morozovsk (Russia)
Coordinates48°18′52″N 041°47′10″E / 48.31444°N 41.78611°E / 48.31444; 41.78611
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence
OperatorRussian Aerospace Forces
Controlled by4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
Site history
In useBefore 1940 - present
Battles/warsWorld War II
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Airfield information
IdentifiersICAO: URRM
Elevation116 metres (381 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
09/27 2,472 metres (8,110 ft) Concrete

Morozovsk is an air base of the Russian Aerospace Forces as part of the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, Southern Military District.

The base is home to the 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment which has three squadrons of Sukhoi Su-34 (NATO: Fullback) as part of the 1st Guards Composite Aviation Division.[1][2]

The regiment arrived from Finsterwalde in Germany in 1993, still as the 559th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment.[3]

The 559th was deployed to Primorsko-Akhtarsk air base as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

On 5 April 2024 Ukraine launched 53 drones into western Russia. Ukrainian intelligence officials told The Kyiv Post that at least six aircraft were destroyed, eight "heavily damaged" and 20 personnel killed at the Morozovsk airbase. Open source intelligence showed 26 Su-34s and three Su-35s at the base prior to the attack. Russian sources claimed that all drones and attacks were thwarted.[5][6][7][8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Russian Air Force today - Russian Southern Military District". Eastern Order of Battle. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  2. ^ AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. March 2022. p. 42.
  3. ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/shap/559apib.htm
  4. ^ AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. December 2022. p. 30.
  5. ^ Abbey Fenbert (5 April 2024). "Russian officials report massive drone attack on military airfield in Rostov Oblast". The Kyiv Independent.
  6. ^ "Ukraine fires more than 50 drones against Russia in one of its biggest air attacks of the war". Associated Press. 5 April 2024.
  7. ^ Kateryna Zakharchenko; Alisa Orlova (5 April 2024). "Kyiv Confirms Ukrainian Drones Destroyed 6 Russian Planes at Air Base, as Many as 3 Sites Blasted". The Kyiv Post.
  8. ^ Robert Greenall (5 April 2024). "Ukraine war: Six Russian planes destroyed by drones, says Kyiv". BBC.