The aircraft of the Armed Forces of Belarus successfully conducted flights with a landing on the Brest-Moscow highway

April 1, Minsk / Vladimir Matveev - BELTA /. Aircraft of the Armed Forces of Belarus successfully conducted flights with landing on the Brest-Moscow highway (M-1/E-30) in the Dzerzhinsky district. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press service of the Ministry of Defense. Two aircraft, a Su-25 and a MiG-29, performed takeoffs and landings from the highway. Today, in accordance with the plan of the flight tactical exercise, flights with landing on an airfield section of the road (ASR) were carried out. Aircraft and crews from the 206th Assault Aviation Base and the 927th Fighter Aviation Base took part in the flights. The event was held to practice the use of highways as reserve airfields and to train flight crews to perform flights using ASRs. Various military units, formations, and services of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces were involved in supporting the flights. The first landing on an airfield section of the road (ASR) in the history of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Belarus was carried out on April 14, 2007. At that time, two Su-25UB attack aircraft from the 206th Assault Aviation Base landed on the highway. In the summer of the same year, fighter jets tested the road's durability: on August 4, a MiG-29 and an Su-27 from the 61st Fighter Aviation Base landed on the ASR. -0-