Russia Moving Combat Aircraft To Ukrainian Border Yesterday the Ukrainian government warned that the Russian airforce was deploying MiG-31 fighter jets and radar stations to the border. David Cenciotti, of The Aviationist, reporting for Business Insider, says that Russia may be preparing to use these advanced fighters to actively patrol the Lugansk border: An unspecified amount of Mig-31s based at Perm have been deployed to Millerovo airfield, in the Rostov region, close to the border with Ukraine. This is a sign that Moscow may be preparing to actively control the airspace over Luhansk Oblast. The MiG-31 is a two-seater derivative of the MiG-25 in service since 1983. Designed to face U.S. supersonic strategic bombers flying at low altitude (B-1B bomber), the MiG-31 has quite good low-level capabilities and features a radar with look-down-shoot-down capability.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:42:28 +0000