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Bell P-39 Airacobra (5,007 supplied from the United States, 4,719 reached Soviet Union) Bell P-63 Kingcobra (2,421 supplied from the United States) Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk/Tomahawk (2,425 supplied from the United States)
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 ...
An Aviation Division (Russian: авиационная дивизия) was a type of formation of the Military Air Forces of the Red Army during the Second World War, the Soviet Air Forces, Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) and Aviation of the Military Naval Fleet, and since 1991 remain major formations within the Military Air Forces of the Russian Federation.
On 1 January 1941, six months prior to Operation Barbarossa, the Air Forces of the Soviet Red Army had 363,900 serving personnel, accounting for 8.65% of all military force personnel of the Soviet Union. [16] The first three Air Armies, designated Air Armies of Special Purpose, were created between 1936 and 1938. [17]
Soviet Union: It was used by the Red Army in the Battle of Kursk and Battle of the Seelow Heights. 152 mm howitzer M1909/30: 152mm Field howitzer Soviet Union: Most numerously used 152mm howitzer by the Red Army. 152 mm howitzer M1910/37: 152mm Field howitzer Soviet Union: 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) 152mm Field howitzer Soviet Union
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]
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, [a] often shortened to the Red Army, [b] was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars [1] to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups ...
Until 25 February 1946, it was known as the Red Army. [3] In Russian, the term armiya (army) was often used to cover the Strategic Rocket Forces first in traditional Soviet order of precedence; the Ground Forces, second; the Air Defence Forces, third, the Air Forces, fourth, and the Soviet Navy, fifth, among the branches of the Soviet Armed ...