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  2. Russian Naval Infantry - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet Naval Infantry's major force during the civil war was the Baltic Fleet Naval Infantry, the ex-Imperial fleet division's Communist servicemen would provide much of the fighting power during those years following the Revolution.

  3. List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

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    It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its successor states of the CIS. The service time frame begins with the year the aircraft entered military service (not the date of first flight ...

  4. Soviet Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet Navy [a] was the naval warfare uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.Often referred to as the Red Fleet, [b] the Soviet Navy made up a large part of the Soviet Union's strategic planning in the event of a conflict with the opposing superpower, the United States, during the Cold War (1945–1991). [2]

  5. Militsiya - Wikipedia

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    Soviet militsiya officer's cap cockade (service/parade version).. The name militsiya as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it ...

  6. List of Soviet and Russian aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Military aircraft. MDR-5 - 1938 reconnaissance aircraft; R-1 - 1952 flying boat; Be-1 - 1964 experimental ground effect aircraft; Be-4 - 1940 reconnaissance flying boat; Be-6 - 1949 maritime patrol flying boat; VVA-14 - 1972 ground effect aircraft; Civilian aircraft. Be-8 - 1947 passenger and liaison floatplane; Be-30 - 1967 regional airliner ...

  7. Ilyushin Il-38 - Wikipedia

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    This aircraft entered service in 1983, and was upgraded to Il-38SD standard in 2002. [8] The aircraft was the first Indian Il-38 to be retired, and was retired in December 2018, subsequently being sent for preservation in 2020. IN-306: To be preserved at the Naval Aviation Museum (Goa), Goa, India. This aircraft was one of two second-hand ...

  8. Soviet Naval Aviation - Wikipedia

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    The first naval aviation units in Russia were formed in 1912–1914 as a part of the Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet.During World War I, the hydroplane units were used in the Black Sea for conducting aircraft reconnaissance, bombing and firing at coastal and port installations and enemy ships, and destroying submarines and enemy aircraft on the airfields.

  9. Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Organisations

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    Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy Gagarin Air Force Academy In 2008, it has been amalgamated with the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy . Joint academy was named Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy