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The Soviet Air Defence Force, which operated interceptor aircraft and surface to air missiles, was then a separate and distinct service within the Soviet military organisation. [44] Yet another independent service was the Soviet Navy's air arm, the Soviet Naval Aviation under the Navy Headquarters.
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 ...
Personnel of the Soviet Air Force (4 C, 4 P) S. Soviet Air Forces education and training (2 C, 7 P) Soviet Air Forces in World War II (1 C, 1 P)
Aircraft Engine Top speed Range Ceiling Bombload Armament 7.62mm /.30-cal. 12.7mm /.50-cal. Cannon Arkhangelsky Ar-2: Inline V-12 × 2: Klimov 313 mph
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)
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) Hawker Hurricane (2,952 supplied from UK) Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-1 (100) Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 (6,528)
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.
1958 stamp depicting the three main branches: Air Force, Navy and Army. The Soviet Union only had Ground Forces, Air Forces, and the Navy in 1945. [18] The two ministries , one supervising the Ground Forces and Air Forces, and the other directing the Navy, were combined into the Ministry of the Armed Forces in March 1946.