Success of Belarusian military aviation in "Disposition" project

20 августа 2022
On August 21, Belarus celebrates the Day of the Air Force. It is a celebration of airmen, engineers, technicians, youth and air force veterans. All of them are one team that has preserved the traditions of the branch of the armed forces and make the way to new heights. Learn about success of Belarusian military aviation "Disposition" project 

"Disposition" is on the air. This is Gagarin. Let's go. Belarus is called a partisan republic, and the Belarusian Military District was considered the most tank association. But few people know that our country is closely connected with aviation. The Belarusian land has brought up many great pilots. They include the first twice Hero of the Soviet Union fighter pilot Sergey Gritsevets, test pilot Petr Stefanovsky, the only pilot in the world who steered 317 aircraft of various types, Pavel Golovachev, who made the first high-altitude ram, Alexander Gorovets, the only pilot on the planet who shot down 9 aircraft in one battle, Vladimir Karvat, the first Hero of the Republic of Belarus , Heroes of Belarus Andrei Nichiporchik and Nikita Kukonenko. Such people created a solid foundation for the Air Force, which did not collapse in independent Belarus after the disappearance of the Soviet Union and allows aviation to develop in the accelerated mode. A lot of work has been done, the arsenal of pilots' techniques has significantly expanded.

Leonid Davidovich, commander of the 61st Fighter Air Base of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Armed Forces of Belarus:

We move along the program, interceptions, air battles, aerobatics, both simple, complex. Pilots who are more experienced, continuously, constantly maintain themselves in readiness to perform combat duty tasks for air defense.

But everything in the modern history of the Belarusian army could be different. The search for the vector of development of the air force of a sovereign country was initially reduced to studying the models of the Air Forces of other countries. In the second half of the 90s, the realization came that to use only foreign experience means to weave in someone's inversion tail. Belarusian aviators decided to build their own route. 

At the end of 2001, after a series of studies and experiments, the military aviation of Belarus became part of a new branch of the Armed Forces - the Air Force and air defense troops. It was during this period that time exposed an acute personnel problem. The flight crew trained in Soviet times went into the reserve. Young pilots had to be trained abroad, which was unforgivably expensive. Under these conditions, the army leadership made a choice in favor of forming its own school of aviators. Training pilots and navigators began at the Military Academy.

In 2006, ten Albatrosses L-39 training aircraft landed at the Lida airfield. A training squadron was soon formed. The cadets began training on the delivered planes.

April 2007. Su-25 attack aircraft landed on the highway near Minsk. Belarusians were the first in the post-Soviet space to resume this practice. To date, aviators have performed training on almost all types of aircraft. Flights using airfield sections of roads are the most complex element of combat training. They practice it to reduce the vulnerability of aviation only in the advanced armies of the world. What for? - Ukraine shows today.

A special round of development is the creation of automated control systems. They allowed the Belarusians to successfully aim fighters at cruise missiles, which was repeatedly confirmed by combat launches at Russian training grounds. Again, the special operation in Ukraine demonstrates the acute relevance of such competencies of aviators.