Domna is a Russian Air Force

Russian Air Force

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 base in Chita, Russia

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 located 27 km southwest of Chita. It is a large, hardened facility with six areas of revetments probably holding 50 fighter aircraft. MiG-23 aircraft from Domna were deployed to Shindand

Shindand Airbase

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, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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 in the late 1980s.

Units stationed at Domna include:

• 733 BAP (733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft in the early 1990s.
• 120 BAP (120th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-29 aircraft in the 1990s through 2000s .
• 125 Gv ORAP (125th Guards Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R in the late 1980s and as many as 26 Su-24MR aircraft around 1990.
• 114 BAP (114th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft; decommissioned around 1992.

Domna means "blast furnace" in Russian.