- Service ensign · official · carried by Air Force
- State affiliation · Ukraine
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Ensign of the Ukrainian Air Force — carried by Air Force, not issued to this record. The service ensign of the Air Force. The design itself is excluded from copyright by Article 8 of Ukraine’s Law on Copyright and Related Rights, which names symbols and signs of government authorities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Ensign of the Ukrainian Air Force.svg", released under PD-UAexMilitary / PD-UA-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Ukraine.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
Tactical aviation brigade flying the Su-27 from Myrhorod in Poltava oblast — the heavy fighter arm of the pre-F-16 fleet, dispersed in the first hours of 2022 and kept flying through the years its base was repeatedly struck.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Dispersed fighter operations from airfields across unoccupied Ukraine; its published home base is Myrhorod. No current basing is authored.
- Notable history
- The brigade that inherited the Soviet Su-27 regiment at Myrhorod and kept Ukraine's heaviest fighters flying through two decades of underfunding, the 2014 loss of a Crimean base and the full-scale war. Its aircraft were dispersed within hours of the February 2022 strikes and have flown air policing, interception of cruise missiles and, adapted for Western weapons, strike escort ever since — one of its commanders was among the war's first publicly named fighter casualties. Myrhorod has been struck repeatedly, which is the cost of a base whose name has been public for thirty years.
- Strengths
- The longest-ranged and best-armed airframes in the Soviet-era fleet, a dispersal discipline proven in 2022, and pilots with more combat hours against cruise missiles than any Western fighter force.
- Limitations
- Airframes at the end of their lives with no spares production, a base under persistent strike, and a pilot pipeline that limits sortie rates more than aircraft numbers do.
Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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