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What a beautiful and exciting demonstration of true skill!
Russian Knights display a wonderful exhibition with their new jets at MAKS 2017 at the Ramenskoe airport in Zhukovskiy, Moscow.
The Russian Knights (Русские Витязи, Russkiye Vityazi, in russian) is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. Originally formed on April 5, 1991 at the Kubinka Air Base as a team of six Sukhoi Su-27s, the team was the first to perform outside the Soviet Union in September 1991 when they toured the United Kingdom. The SU-27s were replaced with six Su-30M2s later on, and recently the whole team migrated again to the SU-30SM multirole fighter featuring canards, thrust vectoring and dual cockpits.
In this sense they became the second aerobatic team in the world to use thrust vectoring jets (first were the Russian Falcons that performed with the same aircraft as soon as 2015 and later replaced them by SU-35S). It is noteworthy as well that apart from traditional formation flight exhibition, the team is starting to introduce post-stall maneuvers that take advantage of the thrust vectoring nozzles into the solo display section of their show.
The team operates from the Kubinka air force base, west of moscow, in conjunction with the 'Strizhi' (Swifts) aerobatic team that still use MiG-29 fighter aircraft. From time to time it is possible to see both teams performing together.
Music: John Petrucci
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