Khersones is an airbase of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet located near Sevastopol, Crimea.

On April 6, 1960, by a directive of the USSR Ministry of Defence dated March 16, 1960, as part of the "further significant reduction in the Armed Forces of the USSR," the headquarters of the 49th Fighter Aviation Division at the Belbek airfield was disbanded.

The station was serviced by Ukrainian personnel, and the information received was sent to the Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning in Solnechnogorsk.

For this information, Russia annually transferred to Ukraine, according to various sources, from $800,000 to 1.5 million dollars.

[citation needed] Air Forces Monthly reported in 2022 that the base was home to a Russian UAV squadron which used both the Orlan-10 and Forpost in support of the Black Sea Fleet.