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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. Primary initial source for this listing is Piotr Butowski, 'Force Report: Russian Air Force,' Air Forces Monthly, July and August 2007. Other ...
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)
Sukhoi Su-27 Soviet fighter aircraft Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 fighter/interceptor aircraft The Soviet Air Force's aviation assets were organised into four types of forces (sing. вид авиации ) - Long Range Aviation, Frontal Aviation, Military Transport Aviation and Army Aviation (which would transfer to the Ground Forces in case of war).
This list of the military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) includes experimental, prototypes, and operational types regardless of era. 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 ...
The strength of aviation regiments varied significantly during Soviet-German fighting on the Eastern Front. Initially Fighter and assault air regiments consisted of four aviation squadrons of 15 aircraft each, for a total of 63 aircraft on their flight log. In the fighter regiment there were 78 pilots, in assault regiments, 82.
Squadron/Detachment Type Headquarters Locations Formation Equipment 5th Independent Long-range Reconnaissance Aviation Detachment ODRAO Kubinka, Moscow Oblast: NA Antonov An-30: 76th Independent Military Transport Aviation Squadron OVTAE Migalovo, Tver Oblast
The list includes overseas Russian airbases including those in Russian occupied Crimea. It can be compared with the List of Soviet Air Force bases; virtually no new airbase construction has taken place since 1991. The main air armies are the: 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Southern Military District
100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment; 108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment; 111th Guards Airborne Regiment; 138th Separate Tank Regiment; 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment; 217th Guards Airborne Regiment; 243rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment; 295th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment; 337th Separate ...