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First reserve base БРС База Резерва Самолетов (Reserve Base of the Aircrafts) is located on airfield Lipyetsk-2, home of the 4th TsBPiPLS and 968th IISAP. In that base older, retired from current service aircrafts are stored for war-time and regularly checked: Previously a unit are named БРАТ База Резерва Авиационной Техники (BRAT, Reserve Base of the Air Equipment), now (2010) it's a 4020th Reserve Base of the Aircrafts. In 1998 BRAT gets seven aircrafts from other regiments to refreshing air skills of the BRAT's airmen. It was MiGs version 9-12 (yes, it's not an error), 9-13 and 9-51. All aircrafts were very distinctively painted in local Lipyetsk's ТЭЧ (TECh, Equipment Maintenance Unit). Even more, 9-12 and 9-51 have very rare for a MiG-29 three-digit white numbers from #100 to #106. Other aircrafts in Lipyetsk are painted in similar manner (#22 #23 #24 from 968th IISAP).
In 2010 in reserve is 93 x MiGs-29. | ||||
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