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Air armies of the Soviet Air Forces (1 C, 26 P) Air units and formations of the Soviet Union in World War II (3 C, 17 P) Aviation divisions of the Soviet Air Forces (19 P)
Its air defence arm became an independent component of the armed forces in 1949, reaching full-fledged force status in 1954 as the Soviet Air Defence Force. During the Cold War, the Soviet Air Force was rearmed, strengthened and modern air doctrines were introduced. At its peak in 1980, it could deploy approximately 10,000 aircraft, making it ...
The Russian Air Force, like the Soviet Air Forces before them, has the aviation regiment as its basic organisational unit. This page will slowly attempt to list all the regiments in Russian Air Force service since May 7, 1992, the date on which Boris Yeltsin decreed the establishment of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
This List of Soviet Air Force bases is a list containing all air bases within the Soviet Union or utilized by the Soviet Air Forces. Additional information includes the location of the air base, which military units were in command of or hosted at the air base, and aircraft types known to have been based at the air base.
Units and formations of the Soviet Air Forces (8 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Soviet Air Force" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Pages in category "Military units and formations of the Soviet Union" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Forces of central subordination of the Russian Air Force 2008; List of corps and divisions of the Russian Air Force; List of regiments of the Russian Air Force; List of squadrons and detachments of the Russian Air Force 2007
An air army (Russian: воздушная армия, romanized: vozdushnaya armiya) was a type of formation of the Soviet Air Forces from 1936 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Air armies continued to be used in the successor Russian Air Force until 2009, and, with a brief break under Serdyukov, from 2015.