The Russian airbase Kant in Kyrgyzstan is technically ready to accommodate Sukhoi-27 fighter jets but the absence of proper housing for pilots and their families delays the redeployment operation, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, General of the Army Vladimir Mikhailov, told reporters on Thursday. According to the general, the amount of housing available is still below demand, although a list of personnel positions and pieces of military equipment for the follow-up phase of the airbase creation project has been authorized already.
"It would make no sense to dispatch Su-27 planes and personnel there, because the sole accommodation available there, if at all, is in the private households' sector," he said.
"We decided to build an apartment building in 2007 first and to move the personnel to the base afterwards," he said. "If there is an urgent need for more crews, the men will be at the airbase in three hours' time, without their families, ready to fulfil concrete tasks."Read more
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