Black Sea synergy

The 17th Sea Breeze was the most important exercise in this series to date, featuring many firsts for its key participants, as Vladimir Trendafilovski discovered. EXERCISE REPORT Sea Breeze 2017 Mi-24PU1 ‘34 Red’ recently returned from overhaul and modernisation at the Aviakon works. Among other features, it is night-vision capable and has an FPM-01KV lasertargeting marker on the starboard side of the nose – right next to the muzzles of its fixed twin-barrel cannon. It flew in a pair with