Russian air base pilots have resumed training flights in Yerevan’s Erebuni airfield following the shift to summer mode.

According to the press service of the Southern Military District, the Russian base operated about 500 training flights in Armenia in 2013, with the pilots of MiG-29 fighters operating over 150 aerial duels in low visibility conditions and 100 flights at night and in adverse weather conditions.

Large-scale work, including maintenance and repair services and 100 technical operations on each MiG-29 fighter, has been carried out by experts of aviation engineering service.

The new training period will focus on work in adverse weather conditions and at low altitude during the.