Poland Moves All Its MiG-29 Fulcrums to Malbork Air Base

MiG-29 Days on the Minsk Mazowiecki Base Are Over After 33 Years.

The rumors have now been confirmed. For fairly a while now, the Polish navy aviation neighborhood knew that the EPMM (Minsk Mazowiecki AB) has been a house for the Polish Fulcrums and the squadron that was inheriting the RAF 303 Sqn heritage would not be a house for the Fulcrum.

The Polish MoD ordered the Fulcrums again in 1987, within the USSR. A dozen jets then started their service – beginning in 1989 – on the Minsk Mazowiecki AB close to Warsaw. The primary QRA (Fast Response Alert) responsibility on the Fulcrum occurred on Jan. 13, 1992. Three years later, one other 10 MiG-29s had been sourced within the Czech Republic, bringing the full variety of jets stationed in Minsk to 22. Any further, the Fulcrums in Minsk Mazowiecki would not maintain the QRA responsibility because the MiG jets could be transferred to the Malbork AB in northern Poland.

The jets have moved out from the twenty third Tactical Air Base in Minsk Mazowiecki over the current weeks. The bottom personnel, together with the Fundacja Historyczna Lotnictwa Polskiego (Polish Aviation Historic Basis) have determined to arrange stickers that might commemorate the 33 years of the Fulcrum’s presence on the EPMM airbase. It’s noteworthy that 26 years in the past when the Polish Air Pressure decommissioned the MiG-21 Fishbeds, in addition they stayed in service within the 1. PLM (1st Fighter Aviation Regiment, which later was working the Fulcrums out of EPMM) for 33 years – the exact same service age was reached by the Fulcrum.

Under chances are you’ll discover a Fb put up by Andrzej Rogucki, working at EPMM, additionally documenting the bottom’s life in his beautiful images, referring to the occasions unfolding in Minsk Mazowiecki, extra particularly on the base positioned near the Janów village, neighbouring the town. The second picture within the put up depicts the commemorative sticker worn by one of many Fishbeds after they had been being decommissioned.

The Minsk Mazowiecki AB is being readied to accommodate 12 out of 48 FA-50 plane procured by Poland in Korea this yr as of subsequent yr. Allow us to recall, that the efficiency settlement regarding the supply of 48 FA-50 and FA-50PL jets from Korea was signed by and between the Polish MoD’s Armament Company (previously often called the Armament Inspectorate) on Sep. 16, on the Minsk Mazowiecki AB. The worth of the agreements is outlined as USD 3 Billion.

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