Lipetsk Aviation Center is a division of the Russian aerospace forces, whose task is to retrain flight and technical personnel, introduce advanced methods and developments of flight systems into combat units.
At the origins of the Luftwaffe
It was a mystery to find a German training and test association in Lipetsk from 1925 to 1933 with the mediation of the Red Army Air Force. Here, studies of the material part were carried out, flight equipment was checked. The pilots of the Lipetsk Aviation Center were intensively trained. The work is classified, the cadets of the school dressed in the uniforms of ordinary Red Army soldiers. The material part was purchased abroad and delivered by secret routes to the school. It was under the jurisdiction of the German General Staff. The existence of the center was contrary to the Versailles agreements.
Cadres were being prepared for the future Luftwaffe of the Third Reich. Air combat techniques, new developments in bombing were practiced, the latest types of weapons, optics and instruments were tested. 120 fighter pilots trained. The less information about the school, the more legends arose around it. Two were alive. This is what in yearsThe city was not bombed during the war. The second says that Hermann Goering, the founder and commander of the German air fleet, studied here. Nothing confirmed.
Creation of a research association
The center has been formed since 1949. Initially, it was a training unit for fighter pilots. Then there were mergers with other courses, consolidation of the structure, change of location, until they finally stopped in the city of Lipetsk.
The training of aviators and testing in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry continued. This military research unit carried out:
- improving the methods of combat use of aviation;
- comprehension by pilots of new technology;
- implementation of advanced teaching methods;
- development of means of destruction.
Achievements
Dozens of types of aircraft have been mastered. Prepared and trained 50 thousand officers of aviation speci alties, cosmonauts of the USSR improved here, 50 applicants defended their academic degrees. 50 research and flight tests were carried out, a complex experimental and survey program was completed.
The Center conscientiously carried out its tasks in the interests of the Air Force and the Defense Ministry. In a short time, complexes of the latest generations of fighters were mastered and documentation was developed for the operation of this equipment in combat conditions. In 1992, the pilots of the scientific connection for the first time flew on the Su-27 to the United States, three years later in the experimentaldemonstrative air battles with foreign colleagues came out the winners. Indispensable participants in aerospace shows, where they demonstrated the maneuverability of our aircraft in air group combat.
Lipetsk Aviation Center is constantly present at exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, a participant in international and Russian exercises.
Descendants will remember
The flight speci alty imposes strict requirements on the professionalism and moral qualities of the pilot. This was repeatedly confirmed by the heroic deeds of air fighters who gave their lives to save people in the line of duty.
The land around Lipetsk is abundantly watered with the blood of pilots. Think about it, fifty pilots died. This is the price of the security of our Motherland!
One day a tragedy happened. The crew of S. Sherstobitov and L. Krivenkov in flight suddenly ignited first one, then the other engine. After extinguishing the fire, it was necessary to sit down immediately. It happened over the city. At the cost of their lives, the pilots managed to take the car towards the outskirts of the settlement, the crew died. The plane had a full refueling and bomb load. One can imagine the consequences of the fall.
Heroes of Russia of the Lipetsk Aviation Center
Six people received the title: four are alive and working, and two died.
Head of the Lipetsk Aviation Center Major General S. S. Oskanov became the first. He was an experienced ace, a professional. During a test flight in February 1992, the equipment failed, and the car began to fall on the settlement. At the cost of life, the fighter managed to be taken aside, people were not injured. For this feat, Oskanov was presented with the highest distinction.
The last list was added by Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov, who was treacherously shot down in Syria. The pilot died, becoming the sixth.
Weekdays
Today, the Lipetsk Aviation Center is a research base for MiG and Su combat systems. And aerobatic teams are a vivid confirmation of the abilities of the Russian Air Force. The efforts of the Center are aimed at the quality of combat training, increasing flight hours. The created series of simulators is an exact copy of units and mechanisms. However, the functionality of the training equipment is delimited.
On some, piloting elements are polished, on others, the technique of applying technology is fixed, on the third - lessons on fixing the skills gained while studying the controls. A multidisciplinary procedural simulator for the crew of the MiG-29UB aviation complex (combat training) has been created. It includes the tasks and functions that air professionals perform during the flight: reconnaissance, the use of weapons in electronic countermeasures.
In the fight against terrorism
Lipetsk Aviation Center gives practical experience to pilots on MiG and Su models.
Russian planes carried out hundreds of missile and bomb strikes during the operation in Syria. Jeweler-like accuracy of hits is noted, which is ensured, among other things, with the help of the latest Russian analytical complex "Il-20". Airplaneequipped with no similar means of detection and optical sensors. This is the necessary support for the crews piloting the Su. The flying laboratory is called the Russian manned reconnaissance.
Aircraft strike targets with phenomenal accuracy, excluding hits on other objects. Terrorists are being bombed in Syria by Su strike systems of modifications 24, 25, 30 SM, 34.
Today the commander of the Lipetsk Aviation Center is a military pilot General Mr. Yury Aleksandrovich Sushkov.
In the photographs and videos, the air fighters' helmets have light filters down. Faces cannot be shown - security requirements. This is practiced in world aviation. It is not a fact that pilots studying at the Lipetsk Research Center will fight. But those aces who fly planes to a target in Syria studied here.
