Lida is an air base of the
Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus located
Lida
Lida ( be, Лі́да ; russian: Ли́да ; lt, Lyda; lv, Ļida; pl, Lida ; yi, לידע, Lyde) is a city 168 km (104 mi) west of Minsk in western Belarus in Grodno Region.
Etymology
The name ''Lida'' arises from its Lithuan ...
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Grodno Region
Grodno Region ( pl, Grodzieńszczyzna) or Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts ( be, Гродзенская вобласць, ''Hrodzienskaja vobłasć'', , ''Haradzienščyna''; russian: Гродненская область, ''Grodnenskaya oblast' ...
, Belarus.
It is home to the 116th Guards Assault Aviation Base, flying
Sukhoi Su-25s and
Yak-130
The Yakovlev Yak-130 ( NATO reporting name: Mitten) is a subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer and light combat aircraft originally developed by Yakovlev and Aermacchi as the "Yak/AEM-130". It has also been marketed as a potential light atta ...
s alongside the 206th Training Center for Aircrew with
Aero L-39C Albatroses.
The
277th Bomber Aviation Regiment of the
Russian Air Force
"Air March"
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with
Sukhoi Su-24
The Sukhoi Su-24 ( NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its crew of two. It ...
's from
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport
Khurba Airport (also given as Komsomolsk South, Khurba, Uchastok, and Kalinovka) is an air base (also used as an airport (russian: Аэропорт Хурба)) in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia south of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. This medium-sized base has ...
deployed here as part of the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
References
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Belarusian Air Force
Grodno Region