MINSK. July 15 (Interfax-AVN) - The Belarussian Armed Forces will soon establish their own training units for pilots, Major General Oleg Paferov, Belarussian Air Force and Air Defense Force commander, said on Tuesday.
"A training squadron will soon be created at facilities of the 206th attack aviation base of the Belarussian Armed Forces, where cadets of the Military Academy's aviation department and pilots of army units will get training allowing them to get second-class qualification," Paferov told a news conference in Minsk.
"L-39 trainers will be procured for the future squadron," he said.
According to Paferov, the squadron will allow cadets of the Military Academy's aviation department to get the full cycle of training on the Belarussian territory. So far they have traveled to Russia to get flight training in the Vyazma center of the Russian Defense Sports and Technical Society.
The general stressed that personnel training for the Air Force and Air Defense Force is a priority for maintaining national security in the military sphere.
He also said that about 180 officers will be sent for service with the Air Force and Air Defense Force this year. Thirteen of them are graduates of the command and staff department of the Belarussian Military Academy, and nearly 40 have graduated from Russian higher military educational establishments.