Hamadan Airbase or Shahrokhi Airbase or Noje Airbase ( fa, پایگاه هوایی شهید نوژه) is an
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force base located 47 km north of
Hamadan
Hamadan () or Hamedan ( fa, همدان, ''Hamedān'') (Old Persian: Haŋgmetana, Ecbatana) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. At the 2019 census, its population was 783,300 in 230,775 families. The majority of people living in Ham ...
in the
Hamadān Province. The airbase is named after Captain
Mohammad Noje who had become, on August 16, 1979, the first IRIAF pilot to be killed in action. The
Nojeh coup plot took place there in 1980.
Russian Air Force use
Since 16 August 2016,
the
Russian Air Force′s
Tupolev Tu-22M
The Tupolev Tu-22M (russian: Туполев Ту-22М; NATO reporting name: Backfire) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing, long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s. According to some ...
long-range bombers
and
Sukhoi Su-34 strike fighters
have used the base for conducting raids over Syria as part of the Russia's
military intervention
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into the
Syrian conflict.
The bombing missions support the
Syrian Arab Army
" (''Guardians of the Homeland'')
, colors = * Service uniform: Khaki, Olive
* Combat uniform: Green, Black, Khaki
, anniversaries = August 1st
, equipment =
, equipment_label =
, battles = 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Six-D ...
in operations against the
Syrian opposition and the
Islamic State
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. It is the first time Iran has let a foreign country use its territory for military operations since the 1979
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...
.
Later in August 2016, Iran's
minister of defense Hossein Dehghan clarified that
Iran
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was hosting
Russia
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′s aircraft at the request of the
Syrian government and Russia was free to utilise it as long as it was necessary. The following day, on 21 August, he appeared to criticise Russia's actions as rash and self-aggrandizing and was quoted as saying, “Under no circumstances will we ever provide Russians with a military base. They have not come here to stay.” On 22 August 2016, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said Russia would stop using the air base for Syria airstrikes "for the time being".
See also
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Nojeh coup plot
*
List of longest runways
References
Iranian airbases
Buildings and structures in Hamadan Province
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