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He was appointed commander of the Ukrainian Air Force on 9 August 2021. [1] On 14 October 2021, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. [3] On 30 August 2024, he was fired by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a day after it was announced that an F-16 had crashed on 26 August. [4] [5] He was replaced by Anatolii Kryvonozhko. [4]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the commander of the country’s air force Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a ...
The dismissal was announced just a day after the Ukrainian military reported that an F-16 jet crashed and its pilot died while repelling a major Russian strike on Monday. "I have decided to ...
Sixteenth Air Force (16 AF)'s original ancestor was the Joint United States Military Group, Air Administration (Spain), which was established on 20 May 1954. It was attached to the Joint U.S. Military Group, which oversaw implementation of the 1953 Spanish-American Defense Cooperation Agreement.
Designated as Deputy Commander [1] 2 Otto P. Weyland: May 1951 – 1952 Designated as Deputy Commander [2] 3 Frank F. Everest: May 1952 – April 1953 Designated as Deputy Commander [3] 4 Earl W. Barnes: April 1953 – February 1956 Designated as Deputy Commander [4] 5 William Eckert: July 1956 – February 1960 [5] 6 Jacob E. Smart: January ...
Lori Jean Robinson (born c. 1959) is a retired United States Air Force general who served as commander of the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) from May 2016 to May 2018.
Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24M, RF-90932, c/n 0615326, '83 white', is shot down near the Syria–Turkey border by a Turkish Air Force F-16 after it entered Turkish airspace. Both the pilot and weapons system officer eject; the weapons system officer, Konstantin Murakhtin, is rescued by Syrian/Russian special forces, but the pilot, Lt Col Oleg ...
During 1941 and early 1942, the tactical air units of the War Department, formerly known as the GHQ Air Force, formed the Air Force Combat Command. The AFCC was dissolved in the reorganization of the United States Army , effective 9 March 1942, which created the United States Army Air Forces as a major command of the Army, which functioned as a ...