Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet air arm receives three Su-30SM fighters
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Three brand-new Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name: Flanker-C) fighter jets have been taken on strength by the air branch of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, the fleet’s spokesman, Vyacheslav Trukhachov, told journalists.
 
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Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet air arm receives three Su-30SM fighters
 
Three brand-new Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name: Flanker-C) fighter jets have been taken on strength by the air branch of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, the fleet’s spokesman, Vyacheslav Trukhachov, told journalists.
     
Su 30SM 70 blue Russian Navy Black Sea FleetSu-30SM fighter. Picture by Ivan Ermolin / russianplanes.net
     
According to him, the aircraft have arrived at their home station, Naval Air Station Saki in Crimea.

"The aircraft were built by the Irkutsk Aircraft Plant and delivered to the Black Sea Fleet’s naval aviators under the fleet’s aircraft inventory upgrade program. Having completed a long-distance ferry flight, the fighters were assigned to the Black Sea Fleet’s separate naval attack air regiment," Trukhachov said.

He explained that the Su-30SM crews had taken a training course in the Russian Naval Aviation Training Center in Yeisk and been gearing up for flying under the program on phasing the advanced aircraft in.