Ukraine Air Force Orbat

[Big-E]

Does anyone know what aircraft they kept in the reorganization? Also do you know about any upgrades to their more modern fighters?

 

[JBodnar39]

Here is what I have on the current organization:


AIRFORCE
71 Su-24 - 30 Active in 1 Regiment/Brigade
63 Su-25 - 30 Active in 1 Regiment/Brigade
60 Su-27 - 36A/12 UB Active in 1 Regiment/Brigade
217 MiG-29A/UB - 120 Active in 4 Regiment/Brigades
20 II-76/78
28 An-26
23 Mi-6/170 Mi-8/111 Mi-2 - Number operational unknown

NAVY
2 Ka-27 ASW, 18 Mi-14 ASW/SAR

ARMY
3 Brigades with a total active (on papaer at least) inventory of
48 Mi-26, 127 Mi-8, 108 Mi-24

That's the most up to date info I have

 

[Big-E]

Thanks, do you know if they kept any Tu-22 type bombers around? I'm also wondering if their Migs and Flankers are going for or have gotten any recent upgrades?

 

[Burner]

Interesting thread. It would also be interesting to post the regiments' names and their bases. Are the Belbek and Saki still operational? From what I know, Saki is used by Su-25s and Belbek by MiG-29s. If I'm not mistaking, the Tu-22s are based at Poltava. Also, what's the current status of Gvardeyskoye AB, I know the Russians had (have?) some aircraft there: 43 OMShAP - Su-17 (also Tu-16 in the past), 5 MRAP (?) - Tu-22. This is all from memory so I expect it to be quite inaccurate, and also info in likely to be outdated. Sorry for this, but it's all I have. Especially accurate data about bases in Crimea is very hard to find. I'll wait for somebody to clear it up.

 

[LancerMc]

I know that recently the last of the Tu-22M's in storage with the UAF had been withdrawn from records and scrapped. This was all paid for by the US.

 

[Big-E]

We can also add

7 An-124s
1 An-225!
1 An-22
2 An-12
1 An-72P
2 more An-26s

as part of strategic airlift... they keep these bohemoths with Antonov Airlines until called upon for military use.

Ukraine has some pretty good airlift capabilities!

 

[contedicavour]

We can also add

7 An-124s
1 An-225!
1 An-22
2 An-12
1 An-72P
2 more An-26s

as part of strategic airlift... they keep these bohemoths with Antonov Airlines until called upon for military use.

Ukraine has some pretty good airlift capabilities!

With Western engines and electronics, Antonov planes have some serious export potential. The only serious non-American competitor is the A400 and it is still far from operational...

cheers

 

[isthvan]

With Western engines and electronics, Antonov planes have some serious export potential. The only serious non-American competitor is the A400 and it is still far from operational...

cheers

IIRC Europeans were considering westernized version of An-70 as A400 alternative. An-70 is great plane whit better capabilities then any comparable competitor and it is quite shame that this great plane has such uncertain future…

 

[contedicavour]

IIRC Europeans were considering westernized version of An-70 as A400 alternative. An-70 is great plane whit better capabilities then any comparable competitor and it is quite shame that this great plane has such uncertain future…

Fully agree, it's a shame, especially if you look at an Antonov's price tag versus that of the A400. Honestly without the European governments' support the A400 would probably never have been conceived in the first place.
The airlift market needs some more competition than Boeing, Lockheed and Airbus-EADS.

cheers

 

[LancerMc]

Contedicavour makes a great point. While I am all for American hardware, but some of the Russian airlifters are a much better choice then the A400, C-130, and C-17. The An-124 is easily a better aircraft then the C-5 ever was, but the Russians for some stupid reason stop producing them. Now many EU nations lease these aircraft to supplement their lack of a strategic lifting aircraft. While the A400 will solve some of these problems, I believe it is still not big enough for the needs of many of the country who bought them. The A400 was one of the novel ideas to build a new aircraft together for a lot different needs, but now its way behind schedule and more expensive then predicted.

 

[contedicavour]

Contedicavour makes a great point. While I am all for American hardware, but some of the Russian airlifters are a much better choice then the A400, C-130, and C-17. The An-124 is easily a better aircraft then the C-5 ever was, but the Russians for some stupid reason stop producing them. Now many EU nations lease these aircraft to supplement their lack of a strategic lifting aircraft. While the A400 will solve some of these problems, I believe it is still not big enough for the needs of many of the country who bought them. The A400 was one of the novel ideas to build a new aircraft together for a lot different needs, but now its way behind schedule and more expensive then predicted.

Yep we'll end up leasing flight-hours for C17s as Denmark is planning to do... while from an accounting point of view that's smart, it may end up costing us more than buying Westernized An124 if overseas missions as Lebanon/A-stan/Iraq continue.

cheers

 

[Grand Danois]

Yep we'll end up leasing flight-hours for C17s as Denmark is planning to do... while from an accounting point of view that's smart, it may end up costing us more than buying Westernized An124 if overseas missions as Lebanon/A-stan/Iraq continue.
cheers

Actually Denmark will own 20% of a C-17 as of 2009. Until then we'll use the SALIS An-124's.

 

[contedicavour]

Actually Denmark will own 20% of a C-17 as of 2009. Until then we'll use the SALIS An-124's.

I didn't know your air force was already leasing AN-124 ! Could you give some more details on this please ?

cheers

 

[Grand Danois]

I didn't know your air force was already leasing AN-124 ! Could you give some more details on this please ?

cheers

It's a part of the multinational lease of 6 Ukrainian An-124's under NATO auspices.