Soviet Belorussian Military District's 26th Tactical Air Army in 1973




	Soviet Belorussian Military District's 26th Tactical Air Army in January 1, 1973

The 95th Fighter Air Division's crews conducted many training tasks. In the second half of the sixties they traveled to Egypt and Vietnam as advisers. The pilots practiced low flying at Lipetsk 4th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel before their trip.

In the late sixties because of China-Soviet border conflict, new tactical air units were needed. The new 120th Fighter Air Regiment was founded at Bereza airport in 1968. It's first squadron consisted of the 927th and 968th Fighter Air Regiment's pilots. The 120th Fighter Air Regiment moved to the Transbaikal Military District area, in the summer of 1968. Here, next to the Chinese border they flew with the MiG-21S Fishbed-J type.

In 1970 two Soviet Fighter Air Regiment deployed to Egypt . The 927th Fighter Air Regiment's many crews joined here. The MiG-21M Fishbed-J model was used in Egypt. They fought against with the Israeli Mirage III CJ and F-4E Phantom II.




	* The 927th regiment received the MiG-21SMT Fishbed-K type in 1973. ** MiG-23 sans suffix - 1971 Model

At the western part of the USSR three regiments received new MiG-23M Flogger-B Tactical Fighters in 1972. One of them was the 968th Fighter Air Regiment at Ross airport. In June 1972, the first squadron began it's training. They received their first aircraft from the 32nd Guard Fighter Air Regiment from Shatalov Airport.

These were the early MiG-23 sans suffix (1971 Model MiG-23 or Etalon) types. Soon the other two squadrons of the regiment began retraining and also received the MiG-23 sans suffix Flogger-B type.





	The fighter-bomber and reconnaissance air regiments were using old aircrafts. They were waiting for the new types.

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