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The main tasks of PvC "Center" are round-the-clock protection of the state border in the airspace and reliable cover from air strikes of large industrial and economic districts, administrative centers, the capital of the country - the city of Kyiv, the objects of the Dnipro Cascade HPP, the Chernobyl NPP, as well as important communications and ...
This article lists the airlift squadrons of the United States Air Force. The purpose of an airlift squadron is to organize and effect the delivery of supplies or personnel, usually via military transport aircraft such as the C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules .
The 517th Airlift Squadron provides airlift operating Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Beechcraft C-12F Huron aircraft. Supporting worldwide airlift, airdrop, airland requirements while providing airlift for theater deployed forces and resupply of remote Alaskan long-range radar sites in support of United States Pacific Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command, and United States ...
Air Force Command "Center" (Повітряне командування «Центр» (ПвК «Центр»), MU А0820), HQ in Vasylkiv Air Base, Kyiv Oblast, south of the capital city of Kyiv, Commander: Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Krivonozhko, AOR covers completely Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Cherkassy and Chernihiv oblasts, parts of ...
The regions in southern Ukraine where the Air Command South operates, are the Odesa Oblast, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, Mykolaiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast and paltially the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovhradand Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. It is the successor to the 5th Aviation Corps of the Air Force and the 60th Air Defense Corps since then.
The SAC C-17's are registered and flagged in Hungary bearing the national military aircraft insignia of the nation. Although the Strategic Airlift Capability relies on certain NATO support structures, it lies outside the command and control of NATO , EU , Partnership for Peace , UN or any other organization that SAC members belong to. [ 1 ]
The 17th Airlift Squadron was most recently one of four active duty Boeing C-17A Globemaster III units at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina.The squadron was first activated during World War II as the 17th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron, redesignating as the 17th Transport Squadron a few months later.
The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) between the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 ...