MISSILE-FIRING ‘FLANKERS’

The traditional weapons employment training event of the Russian Aerospace Forces’ 6th Air and Air Defense Army was held at a makeshift range over Lake Ladoga near St Petersburg in north-western Russia during March. A Su-30SM gets airborne during an afternoon launch on March 30 to unleash an R-73 air-toair missile on parachute targets over Lake Ladoga. All photos Andrey Zinchuk THE ‘LADOGA 2019’ live-_ re exercise was a brief but intense event, designed to test the employment of short-range,