Protect the "union state": in Belarus raised fighters of the MiG-31K with the missiles "Dagger" (photo)

Military aircraft were lifted from airfields in Makhulshchi and Baranovichi. The Belarusian Ministry of Defense explained the maneuvers of the Russian air group by the planned patrol of borders. Russian aviation made a planned patrol in Belarus. The Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported on Telegram in response to information about lifting into the air of the Mig-31K fighters.

"In these moments, the Russian aviation component of the regional group of troops (forces) carries out the planned patrol of the air borders of the Union State," the military said. Belaruski Gayun's monitoring group, which monitors the Belarusian military maneuvers, reported 31k fighters. One of them was from the military airfield in Makhulshchi. Russia has transferred these 3 fighters to Belarus on October 16, and planes can be transferred on board the Dagger missiles.

Further, the fighter was spotted in the direction in Baranovich, and later two more planes flew from the airfield in Baranovichi. "It seems that the accompaniment. Soligorsk. The flight of the fighter at high altitude. Oktyabrsky (Gomel region). The flight of the fighter in the direction of the southeast (to Svetgorsk/Gomel). Soligorsk, the fighter flew at high altitude," - said in the group. After maneuvers, Mig-31k landed at the airfield in Makhuli. The aircraft stayed in the air for about 1.

5 hours, accompanied by 2 fighters that flew from the airfield in Baranovichi. Dagger missiles can affect targets up to 2,000 kilometers, its maximum speed - more than 12 thousand km/h. Experts of the Belaruski Gayun group believed that, together with aircraft, Russia could have delivered to the dagger rockets to Belarus. In addition to the fighter jets at the Makhulishi airfield, 3 IL-76 transporters arrived. Russian troops could lose the Mig-31 fighter in the Crimea with a Belbek Air Force.