Without planes and ships: why the military parade was reduced in both capitals. Victory Parade What time will the planes fly in the parade

As it became known from the message of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, training flights of aircraft that will participate in the Victory Day parade began in Kubinka (Moscow region).

Traditionally, May 9 is the Day of celebrating the victory in the Great Patriotic War, in Moscow on Red Square is a military parade. This event annually arouses great interest among Russians and not only. The parade is attended by the best of the best: representatives of all military branches, the most advanced Combat vehicles. One of the most spectacular moments is the overflight of aviation.

What aircraft will participate?

It turned out that the largest helicopter in the world, the Mi-26 helicopter, will be the first in the air system. Following this giant, the Mi-28N, Mi-35, and also the Ka-52 will fly.

In addition to helicopter aviation, heavy bombers Tu-160, Tu-95MS, Tu-22MZ will fly over Red Square on May 9. Spectators will also be able to see Il-78 tanker aircraft and An-124, Il-76MD transport aircraft. Fighters will traditionally be visible: Su-35S, Su-ZOSM, Su-27, MiG-29, MiG-31BM, coupled with Su-34, Su-24M front-line bombers, reports ftimes.ru. Su-25 attack aircraft with Yak-130 combat training aircraft will be presented.

As usual, the Russian Knights aerobatic team, which this year received the latest equipment - Su-30SM fighters, will also participate in the Parade. The Swifts aerobatic team will also be in the skies of Moscow.

Planes and helicopters will pass at an altitude of 150 meters and a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. For aircraft of transport, operational-tactical and long-range aviation, an altitude of 300 to 500 meters and a speed of 500 kilometers per hour are determined.

Aviation in the Victory Parade 2017 - aircraft over the northern capital

By the way, this year aviation will take part in the Victory Parade in St. Petersburg for the first time, informs ftimes.ru. Mi-8, Mi-26, Mi-35, Mi-28N, Ka-52 helicopters, Su-27, MiG-29SMT, MiG-31BM, Su-35, Su-34 fighters, transport aircraft An-12, An-26 and Tu-134 - more than 40 units.

In 2015, we recall, in the celebrations dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory, tanks passed through the Northern capital for the first time.

Aviation in the Victory Parade 2017: how many planes will be in the sky over Moscow?

In total, on May 9, during the Victory Parade in Moscow, 17 helicopters and 55 aircraft will be presented, including the Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers,

In total, 72 combat aviation crews will take part in the parade - strategic missile carriers, long-range bombers, military transport aircraft, fighters, attack aircraft, front-line bombers and helicopters.

The air part of the Victory Parade in 2017, according to ftimes.ru. helicopters will be opened, then demonstration performances of aircraft will begin, including the aerobatic team\"Russian Knights\" will perform the figure \"Cuban Diamond\" on Su-30SM fighters, and the parade will end with a flight of six Su-25s with smoke in the colors of the Russian flag.

It should also be noted that Muscovites have recently seen aircraft in the sky. This was during the first part of the training flights. However, it is pleasant to observe the work of domestic aces in unlimited quantities. In a day Great Victory they're in Once again demonstrate their skills, as well as the power and strength of the Russian army.

Due to unfavorable weather conditions in the Moscow region, the Ministry of Defense decided to cancel the flight of military aircraft over Red Square during the Victory Parade. It was planned that 72 planes and helicopters would fly over the square.

Aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces over Red Square at the dress rehearsal of the Victory Parade on May 7 (Photo: Ekaterina Shlyushenkova / RBC)

The Ministry of Defense has canceled the air part of the parade in honor of the 72nd anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, TASS reports citing the press service of the department.

The decision was made due to adverse weather conditions in Moscow and the region.

"The planes and helicopters involved in the Victory Parade on Red Square will return to their base airfields," the defense ministry said in a statement.

In 2017, about 10,000 military personnel and 114 units of ground equipment took part in the parade.

It was assumed that 72 aircraft and helicopters would take part in the air parade. The air column was to be led by the world's largest military transport helicopter Mi-26, accompanied by four Mi-8s. The parade was to be attended by Tu-160, Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 strategic and long-range bombers, as well as fighters, including the latest Su-35S, front-line bombers and attack aircraft, Yak-130 combat training aircraft, military transport vehicles and aircraft - tankers. It was also planned that Mi-26 and Mi-8AMTSh, Mi-28N, Ka-52 and Mi-35M helicopters would fly over Red Square. Aviation was concentrated at eight airfields in eight regions of Russia.

At the military parade in St. Petersburg, the flight of aviation went according to plan. “The most experienced crews of Su-35, MiG-29, Su-27, Su-34 fighters, Ka-52, Mi-8, Mi-24, Mi-26 helicopters, An-12 transport aircraft, An-26, Tu-134, more than 40 units in total aviation technology”, the press service of the Western Military District told TASS.

However, the St. Petersburg parade took place without the participation of ships, Interfax reports. Earlier it was reported that on Victory Day, the ships of the Baltic and Leningradskaya naval bases fleet. In total, it was planned to use more than ten ships, boats and support vessels of the Baltic Fleet. However, despite their announced participation in the celebrations, the ships did not appear in St. Petersburg.

71 units flew over Moscow in 2016 military equipment. This year, among other things, they were supposed to fly over the capital attack helicopters Ka-52 and the Russian Knights aerobatic team.

As previously RBC, according to the public procurement website and according to RBC estimates, more than 509 million rubles were spent on the celebration in Moscow.

Despite the fact that 98 million rubles were allocated for the dispersal of clouds in Moscow by May 9, the parade flight of military aircraft on Victory Day was canceled. And in St. Petersburg, without explanation, the naval part of the parade was canceled

dress rehearsal Victory Parade in Moscow (Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS)

Moscow without aviation

The Victory Parade on Red Square this year was held without aviation. The reason, as in the Ministry of Defense, was unsuitable weather in the capital and the region. Later it's the press secretary Russian President Dmitry Peskov. He emphasized that the order of neither the Supreme Commander-in-Chief nor the Minister of Defense was needed to cancel the air part of the parade. “There are safety conditions for weather conditions when military aviation cannot fulfill its tasks, ”Peskov said, noting that the cloud cover was almost 150 meters, and aircraft should not fly below 500 meters of cloud cover.

This is enough to land the planes - the airports worked as usual, Roman Vilfand, director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, told RBC. But such weather is not suitable for demonstration flights, he said. “The plane would just go into the clouds, nothing would be visible. If the clouds were of the middle tier - at a height of 3 km, then it would be possible to make those figures that were supposed to be, ”explained the director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.

On March 23, 2017, a tender worth 293.6 million rubles was posted on the public procurement website. for "performance of work on weather protection of Moscow" on May 1, May 9 and June 12. About 98 million rubles. was assigned to ensure a cloudless sky over Moscow on Victory Day. The customer of the work is Expertavtodor, the contractor is the Agency of Atmospheric Technologies. On May 9, RBC could not contact her, on phone calls the company did not respond.

The impact on clouds, their dehydration by spraying reagents leads to a decrease in the intensity of precipitation, Vilfand noted. “Such operations were carried out, the intensity of precipitation was reduced. But no one set the task of creating clear sky. This is impossible. Especially under the condition of the synoptic process that was, ”he stated. On the eve of May 8, it was raining and sleet in the capital.

Technically, aircraft could fly over Red Square, pilot says civil aviation Aeroflot, former military pilot Vitaly Sokolovsky. At the moment, the Russian Aerospace Forces have the necessary training and full equipment for flights in any weather conditions, he noted.

Rehearsal for the Victory Parade (Photo: Denis Tyrin / AP)

“There are special devices and systems that allow you to do this. But still, the confidence was 99%,” Sokolovsky said. “With such visibility, one should not forget about 1%, which accounts for disasters and emergency situations.”

Given that the flights were supposed to take place over a densely populated area, the authorities did not take risks and reasonably canceled the air part of the parade, said the head of the flight test complex of the Flight Research Institute. Gromova, Honored Pilot of Russia Boris Barsukov. In order to fly over Red Square, the pilots would have to “break through” the clouds on the descent, he pointed out. “Everything could happen in such conditions - including collisions of aircraft, so they would go in a fairly dense order of battle", - said Barsukov. According to the pilot, on May 9 there were powerful fronts of the cyclone, and the fact that during the parade itself it was possible to ensure the absence of precipitation is already an achievement.

That the aviation part of the Victory Parade in Moscow will be represented by 17 helicopters and 55 aircraft, including the Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers, as well as the MiG-31 supersonic fighter-interceptor. Demonstration planned attack helicopters Ka-52, which, according to the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff, Sergei Rudsky, played a decisive role in the second liberation of Palmyra. The performance of the aerobatic team "Russian Knights" was also planned. In conclusion, six Su-25BM attack aircraft were supposed to paint the sky over Red Square in the colors of the Russian tricolor.

At the same time, the cost of aviation kerosene, which would have been spent during the parade, amounted to about 14 million rubles.

Petersburg without ships

In St. Petersburg, the Victory Parade also did not go according to plan - the participation of warships was canceled, Interfax reported. Earlier it was assumed that more than ten ships of the Baltic and Leningrad naval bases of the fleet would take part in the celebrations in the Neva water area. The Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on the cancellation of the naval part of the parade in St. Petersburg. RBC is awaiting an official response to its request.

The Petersburg edition of "Fontanka" that the ships of the Baltic Fleet entered the waters of the Neva on May 3, but left it three days later. The reason was allegedly the American destroyer USS Carney, which entered the Gulf of Gdansk, on board of which there may be cruise missiles Tomahawk, the publication claimed. An unnamed Baltic Fleet officer told Fontanka that dispersing ships at sea is a common tactic. navy in the event of a threat of a sudden missile attack.

RBC's source in the Ministry of Defense called this explanation "nonsense". However, when asked why the ships did not appear in St. Petersburg on May 9, the interlocutor found it difficult to answer. “It was decided to return them, and that’s it. Why, I don't know, but it has nothing to do with the American destroyer. We would not transfer all our forces for the sake of one ship, ”he said.

According to Fontanka, the government of St. Petersburg spent about 4 million rubles on the preparation of the naval part of the parade. The money was used to install mooring barrels for ships in the Neva and to pay for extracurricular work of port services for the night placement of ships in the Neva on May 3.

If the decision to cancel the naval parade in St. Petersburg on May 9 was made due to approaching inland waters Russia American destroyer, then, most likely, "it was the decision of a non-military person," says military expert Vladimir Shcherbakov. He also noted that weather could hardly play a decisive role, since they could only affect the "visual perception of the spectacle."

The editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, retired colonel Viktor Murakhovsky, also does not believe that the naval part of the parade in St. Petersburg was canceled because of the American destroyer. In his opinion, this may be due to the actions of the Russian armed forces in Syria.

We are talking about the concentration of the ship grouping in the Eastern Mediterranean, admitted Murakhovsky. “This is necessary, first of all, in order to deter provocations aimed at disrupting the process that Russia, Iran and Turkey provide in Syria,” the military expert concluded.

The parade in honor of the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held this year in 28 cities of Russia, the Ministry of Defense reported. More than 90 thousand servicemen took part in it. The parade in Moscow was the largest - more than 10 thousand military personnel and 114 units of ground military equipment took part in it. In St. Petersburg, more than four thousand people, 96 units of military equipment and more than 40 aircraft were involved in the celebration.​​​​

On May 9, Channel One will broadcast the parade on Red Square: 13,000 participants, dozens of military vehicles, many new products, and not only on the ground.

Our newest Su-57 fighters will fly over the center of Moscow. In total, there will be 77 aircraft and helicopters in the sky. Channel One is ready to present this part of the parade literally on top.

Tu-95 MS takes off from the military airfield in Engels. Course - to Moscow. These shots are breathtaking! One camera is installed on the tail of the aircraft, the other in the cockpit - it shoots the commander of the ship - Captain Anton Kharlov. On May 9, he will take part in the Victory Day parade for the first time!

“The plane is heavy, inert, about 140 tons over Red Square. You get pleasure from every flight, satisfaction from the flight, especially from this one!” - Captain of the Russian Aerospace Forces, pilot, participant in the Victory Parade Anton Kharlov shares his emotions.

In NATO reference books, the name "Bear" was assigned to this machine. Tu-95 MS - the backbone strategic aviation Russia, a long-range bomber, is equipped with the latest cruise missiles, among all propeller-driven aircraft, it is the fastest.

Captain Harlov in front of him respectfully takes off his cap - so on the eve of the rehearsal of the aviation part of the Parade, he begins a detailed inspection of his aircraft. Approximately the same ritual before the flight at the pilot Oleg Skitsky. Under his leadership, the White Swan is one of the brightest participants in the upcoming parade.

Tu-160 is the pride of our country, the largest and most powerful supersonic aircraft in the history of military aviation:

“For any pilot, participation in the Victory Parade is an event that is remembered for a lifetime. Of course, it is very honorable, but at the same time very responsible!” - says Oleg Skitsky, pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces, participant in the Victory Parade.

This sense of responsibility has already been experienced eight times by the Lipetsk pilot German Anakhov, he pilots the Su-34 and affectionately calls his plane a duckling.

On May 9, for the first time, he will lead the Tactical Wing group, these are 10 fighters of various modifications, which are currently training in the sky over the Lipetsk region. Everything in order to fly over Red Square in perfect formation on Victory Day in 20 seconds.

“My own uncle was a pilot, he died in the Great Patriotic War, of course, I will take his photograph into the cockpit on May 9 and fly,” says German Anakhov.

In total, 77 helicopters and planes will be involved in the aviation part of the Parade. Among them are new items - fifth-generation Su-57 fighters, as well as MiG-31 interceptors equipped with hypersonic missiles"Dagger".

And, of course, the holiday will not do without reliable and proven equipment over the years - for example, a training flight of the Il-78 tanker aircraft. Our film crew is on board.

A Tu-160 air refueling demonstration is about to begin. It flies right behind us. To stretch a hose-cone to it, the crews need to calculate everything to the millimeter.

Less than 10 minutes of flight remained to Red Square, but the weather suddenly deteriorated over Moscow, and the planes decided to turn around. However, the pilots, who had to return to their air bases ahead of schedule, are not worried: according to weather forecasts, it will be sunny and rainless in Moscow on Victory Day.

Despite the fact that 98 million rubles were allocated for the dispersal of clouds in Moscow by May 9, the parade flight of military aircraft on Victory Day was canceled. And in St. Petersburg, without explanation, the naval part of the parade was canceled

Dress rehearsal for the Victory Parade in Moscow (Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS)

Moscow without aviation

The Victory Parade on Red Square this year was held without aviation. The reason, as in the Ministry of Defense, was unsuitable weather in the capital and the region. Later, this is the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. He emphasized that the order of neither the Supreme Commander-in-Chief nor the Minister of Defense was needed to cancel the air part of the parade. “There are safety conditions due to weather conditions when military aviation cannot perform its tasks,” Peskov said, noting that the cloud cover was almost 150 meters, and aircraft should not fly below 500 meters of cloud cover.

This is enough to land the planes - the airports worked as usual, Roman Vilfand, director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, told RBC. But such weather is not suitable for demonstration flights, he said. “The plane would just go into the clouds, nothing would be visible. If the clouds were of the middle tier - at a height of 3 km, then it would be possible to make those figures that were supposed to be, ”explained the director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.

On March 23, 2017, a tender worth 293.6 million rubles was posted on the public procurement website. for "performance of work on weather protection of Moscow" on May 1, May 9 and June 12. About 98 million rubles. was assigned to ensure a cloudless sky over Moscow on Victory Day. The customer of the work is Expertavtodor, the contractor is the Agency of Atmospheric Technologies. On May 9, RBC was unable to contact her; the company did not answer phone calls.

The impact on clouds, their dehydration by spraying reagents leads to a decrease in the intensity of precipitation, Vilfand noted. “Such operations were carried out, the intensity of precipitation was reduced. But no one set the task of creating a clear sky. This is impossible. Especially under the condition of the synoptic process that was, ”he stated. On the eve of May 8, it was raining and sleet in the capital.

Technically, aircraft could fly over Red Square, says Aeroflot civil aviation pilot, former military pilot Vitaly Sokolovsky. At the moment, the Russian Aerospace Forces have the necessary training and full equipment for flights in any weather conditions, he noted.

Rehearsal for the Victory Parade (Photo: Denis Tyrin / AP)

“There are special devices and systems that allow you to do this. But still, the confidence was 99%,” Sokolovsky said. “With such visibility, one should not forget about 1%, which accounts for disasters and emergency situations.”

Given that the flights were supposed to take place over a densely populated area, the authorities did not take risks and reasonably canceled the air part of the parade, said the head of the flight test complex of the Flight Research Institute. Gromova, Honored Pilot of Russia Boris Barsukov. In order to fly over Red Square, the pilots would have to “break through” the clouds on the descent, he pointed out. “Everything could happen in such conditions, including collisions of aircraft, so they would go in a fairly dense battle formation,” Barsukov said. According to the pilot, on May 9 there were powerful fronts of the cyclone, and the fact that during the parade itself it was possible to ensure the absence of precipitation is already an achievement.

That the aviation part of the Victory Parade in Moscow will be represented by 17 helicopters and 55 aircraft, including the Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers, as well as the MiG-31 supersonic fighter-interceptor. A demonstration of Ka-52 attack helicopters was planned, which, according to the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff, Sergei Rudsky, played a decisive role in the second liberation of Palmyra. The performance of the aerobatic team "Russian Knights" was also planned. In conclusion, six Su-25BM attack aircraft were supposed to paint the sky over Red Square in the colors of the Russian tricolor.

At the same time, the cost of aviation kerosene, which would have been spent during the parade, amounted to about 14 million rubles.

Petersburg without ships

In St. Petersburg, the Victory Parade also did not go according to plan - the participation of warships was canceled, Interfax reported. Earlier it was assumed that more than ten ships of the Baltic and Leningrad naval bases of the fleet would take part in the celebrations in the Neva water area. The Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on the cancellation of the naval part of the parade in St. Petersburg. RBC is awaiting an official response to its request.

The Petersburg edition of "Fontanka" that the ships of the Baltic Fleet entered the waters of the Neva on May 3, but left it three days later. The reason allegedly was the American destroyer USS Carney, which entered the Gulf of Gdansk, which may carry Tomahawk cruise missiles, the publication claimed. An unnamed Baltic Fleet officer told Fontanka that dispersing ships at sea is a common navy tactic in the event of a sudden missile attack.

RBC's source in the Ministry of Defense called this explanation "nonsense". However, when asked why the ships did not appear in St. Petersburg on May 9, the interlocutor found it difficult to answer. “It was decided to return them, and that’s it. Why, I don't know, but it has nothing to do with the American destroyer. We would not transfer all our forces for the sake of one ship, ”he said.

According to Fontanka, the government of St. Petersburg spent about 4 million rubles on the preparation of the naval part of the parade. The money was used to install mooring barrels for ships in the Neva and to pay for extracurricular work of port services for the night placement of ships in the Neva on May 3.

If the decision to cancel the naval parade in St. Petersburg on May 9 was made because of an American destroyer approaching the internal waters of Russia, then most likely “it was the decision of a non-military person,” military expert Vladimir Shcherbakov believes. He also noted that weather conditions could hardly have played a decisive role, since they could only affect the "visual perception of the spectacle."

The editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, retired colonel Viktor Murakhovsky, also does not believe that the naval part of the parade in St. Petersburg was canceled because of the American destroyer. In his opinion, this may be due to the actions of the Russian armed forces in Syria.

We are talking about the concentration of the ship grouping in the Eastern Mediterranean, admitted Murakhovsky. “This is necessary, first of all, in order to deter provocations aimed at disrupting the process that Russia, Iran and Turkey provide in Syria,” the military expert concluded.

The parade in honor of the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held this year in 28 cities of Russia, the Ministry of Defense reported. More than 90 thousand servicemen took part in it. The parade in Moscow was the largest - more than 10 thousand military personnel and 114 units of ground military equipment took part in it. In St. Petersburg, more than four thousand people, 96 units of military equipment and more than 40 aircraft were involved in the celebration.​​​​