{"id":820,"date":"2015-04-08T20:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2015-04-08T20:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:07:34","slug":"russian-fighter-jets-holding-air-combat-exercises-in-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Russian Fighter Jets Holding Air Combat Exercises in Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"b-article__lead\">The Russian Defense Ministry\u2019s Eastern Military District said that over 500 Russian soldiers and 30 fighter jets are taking part in combat exercises in the country&#8217;s Far East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_821\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Russian-Air-Force-Su-27-Flanker-080415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Russian-Air-Force-Su-27-Flanker-080415.jpg\" alt=\"Russian Air Force Su-27 Flanker (\u00a9 Sputnik\/ Alexandr Kryazhev)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Russian-Air-Force-Su-27-Flanker-080415.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Russian-Air-Force-Su-27-Flanker-080415-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian Air Force Su-27 Flanker (\u00a9 Sputnik\/ Alexandr Kryazhev)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Approximately 500 Russian military servicemen and 30 fighter jets are holding flight exercises in\u00a0the country\u2019s Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry\u2019s Eastern Military District announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSu-27 Flanker multi-function jets and MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor jets participated in\u00a0air combat attacks against\u00a0Su-25 (Frogfoot) attack jets simulating enemy aircraft,\u201d the Eastern Military District said in\u00a0an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The flight exercises will finish on\u00a0Saturday, according to\u00a0the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Eastern Military District announced that more than\u00a0ten aircraft, including helicopters, took part in\u00a0simulated attacks by\u00a0an &#8220;enemy&#8221; near\u00a0the Chinese border.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry has announced plans to\u00a0conduct at\u00a0least 4,000 military exercises throughout\u00a0the country in\u00a02015.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0MOSCOW (<a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/russia\/20150408\/1020605147.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sputnik<\/a>) \u2013 April 8, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Defense Ministry\u2019s Eastern Military District said that over 500 Russian soldiers and 30 fighter jets are taking part in combat exercises in the country&#8217;s Far East. Approximately 500 Russian military servicemen and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,173,20,7,28],"tags":[687,69,249,685,686],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}