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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 ...
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.
[9] [10] It was the most highly decorated female unit in the Soviet Air Force, with many pilots having flown over 800 missions by the end of the war, and twenty-three having been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title. Thirty-two of its members died during the war. [11]
An Aviation Regiment (Russian: авиационный полк, aviaciónnyj polk) was a type of unit employed to organise aircraft and their crews in air combat in the Red Army Air Force during the Second World War, the Soviet Air Forces, Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) [1] and Soviet Naval Aviation. [2]
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.
From the Soviet Air Force, air armies were attached to fronts. They were made up of two to three aviation corps. They were made up of two to three aviation corps. The 16th Air Army was one of the longest serving, and was active until 2009 in the Moscow Military District .