Russia is sending naval aviators to the Crimean peninsula. Traveling 1,650 miles from their Murmansk-area home bases in the bitterly cold Russian far north, the aircrews will train on newly developed aircraft carrier simulation facilities.
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An image grab taken from a video footage made available on the Russian Defence Ministry's official website on Nov. 15, 2016, reportedly shows a jet taking off from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast during a strike against Islamic State (IS) group's positions in Syria.
