Chindant
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Chindant is an air base in Chita Oblast
, Russia
located 13 km west of Borzya
. It is a simple fighter base with three areas of fighter revetments housing about 30 aircraft.
Units stationed at Chindant include:
Chita Oblast
Chita Oblast was a federal subject of Russia in southeast Siberia, Russia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita. It had extensive international borders with China and Mongolia and internal borders with Irkutsk and Amur Oblasts, as well as with the Buryat and the Sakha Republics. Its...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
located 13 km west of Borzya
Borzya
Borzya is a town and the administrative center of Borzinsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Population: -Geography:The town is located on the Borzya River, a right-hand tributary of the Onon, southeast of Chita about from the border of Mongolia to the south, and from the border of China...
. It is a simple fighter base with three areas of fighter revetments housing about 30 aircraft.
Units stationed at Chindant include:
- 189 Gv APIB (189th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3 aircraft around 1988. This regiment was subordinate to 23 OA (23rd Air Army, i.e. Trans-Baikal Air Army).
- 101 ORAP (101st Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R aircraft.