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The ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in the Crimean Saks will remain the only complex for training naval aviation pilots, the use of the new complex in Yeysk is not planned. This was reported by a source in the Russian defense industry.
After the modernization, the Crimean NITKA complex will receive a new television complex similar to the one installed on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Repair work on the complex began last year, but training flights continue. At least last autumn, pilots of the 279th OKIAP trained in Crimea on Su-33 and Su-25UTG aircraft and the 100th OKIAP on MiG-29K/KUB aircraft of the Northern Fleet. The NITKA complex in Crimea completely repeats the take-off deck of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.
It is reported that the commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov decided to train naval aviation pilots only at the Crimean NITKA complex, what will happen to the one under construction in Yeysk is still unknown.
- TASS quotes the words of a source in the defense industry.
Recall that the NITKA complex in Yeysk was started construction in 2011 after Ukraine banned the use of the NITKA complex in Crimea for training Russian naval aviation pilots. Construction was delayed, and after 2014 it slowed down altogether, since Crimea returned to Russia, and with it the NITKA complex in Saki. The last deadline for the completion of the construction of the complex in Yeysk was called this year, but even then it is inaccurate.