Mozdok Air Base | Oversweep

Drafted — not technically validated

Record revision 1 · A Russian strategic aviation base in North Ossetia, used in the First Chechen War and the Syrian operation.

A real-world airfield as described in public sources, and how sim maps represent it. Units, facilities and names change; each is dated where the sources allow, and the charts are not for navigation. Use current official publications for flight planning.

Location and identity

Location: On the north-west edge of Mozdok, North Ossetia–Alania [1] [2]
Country or territory: Russia
Coordinates: 43.7850° N, 44.6000° E [3]
Elevation: 466 ft (142 m) [1]
Identifiers: URMF · RU-0152
Other names: None recorded
Opened: no opening date is given in the sources consulted
Theatre: The Caucasus

Role and operators

Status: Active · Military
Roles today: Bomber · Forward staging and deployments
Operators: Russian Air Force, a strategic aviation base · Russia, air force · as of Oct 2026 [1] [2]

Units

Permanently based units belong to the airfield; rotational and temporarily deployed units are there for a period or an operation. Dates are when the sources place each unit there; "as of" is when a source described it as current.

Current

Detachment of the 485th Independent Helicopter Regiment [1]
Service
Russia, air force
Basing
Permanently based
When
as of Oct 2026

Runways and facilities

The sources do not date these figures. Facilities not listed here are not documented in the sources cited, which does not mean the airfield lacks them.

Runway	Length	Width	Surface
08L/26R [1]3,485 m	11,434 ft (3,485 m)	Not given	concrete
08R/26L [1]3,000 m	9,843 ft (3,000 m)	Not given	concrete

Arresting gear: None documented in the sources cited
Navaids: None documented in the sources cited

Figure 1 — Airfield map of Mozdok Air Base (to scale)

Runway
Taxiway
Apron
Airfield boundary

Runways, taxiways, aprons and buildings inside the airfield boundary, true north up, drawn from OpenStreetMap data retrieved 2026-10-28. Widths come from the map data or, where it gives none, a typical 45 m runway and 18 m taxiway. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL 1.0. Community-mapped, not an official aerodrome chart, and not for navigation.

Sim maps

Represented in: DCS: Caucasus

DCS: Caucasus DCS World · Present day

Represented as “Mozdok” · checked 2026-10-28 [4]

Runway 08/26 [4]
Tower 137.0 MHz VHF and 266.0 MHz UHF [4]
RSBN channel 20 (MZ), and PRMG channel 22 at each end with outer and inner NDBs [4]

Differences from the real airfield

Runways: The game has one runway, 08/26, 7,734 ft long [4]; the real base has two parallel runways, of 3,485 m and 3,000 m. [1]

Only the maps marked represented or confirmed absent have been checked. Any other map may or may not represent this airfield.

Role today

Mozdok is a Russian Air Force strategic aviation base on the north-west edge of the town, and home to a detachment of the 485th Independent Helicopter Regiment. [1] [2] Published sources on it are thin, so this record is short.

History

The base was used heavily in the First Chechen War and in Russia’s military operation in Syria. [2] No fuller published history of it was found in the sources consulted.

The airfield

Two parallel concrete runways: 08L/26R, 3,485 m long, and 08R/26L, 3,000 m. [1]

Sources

Mozdok Air Base. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozdok_Air_Base (accessed 2026-10-28). A short article: infobox runways and elevation, and the helicopter detachment.
Моздок (Mozdok). Russian Wikipedia (secondary source, in Russian). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Моздок (accessed 2026-10-28). Town article: the strategic aviation base and its use in the First Chechen War and the Syrian operation.
Airport data, RU-0152. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Row for RU-0152 Mozdok Air Base: position only.
dcs-world-schema reference data: Caucasus airbases (Mozdok.json). dcs-world-schema, open-source data extracted by running DCS World 2.9.30.28536. https://github.com/YoloWingPixie/dcs-world-schema/blob/c3091e6c08fb8167e26145d0e33c10e4140c6fe7/dcs-world-reference/latest/airbases/Caucasus/Mozdok.json (accessed 2026-10-28). With its beacon and navaid files, as tabled on the DCS: Caucasus map page.

Wikipedia articles are secondary sources and can change; they are cited with the date they were read. FAA airport data and diagrams are official but are reissued every 28 or 56 days; each is cited with the edition read. pydcs mirrors the DCS terrain data at the commit linked.