The Soviet Air Forces (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, tr. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily Soyuza Sovetskih Sotsialisticheskih Respublik, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as the "Red Air Force", were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II. The groups were also involved in the Korean War, and dissolved along with the Soviet Union itself in 1991–92. Former Soviet Air Forces' assets were subsequently divided into several air forces of former Soviet republics, including the new Russian Air Force. The "March of the Pilots" was its marching song.
The SovietAirForces (Russian: Военно-Воздушные Силы Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, tr. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily Soyuza Sovetskih Sotsialisticheskih...
Federation's air force can trace its lineage and traditions back to the Imperial Russian Air Service (1912–1917) and the SovietAirForces (1918–1991)...
The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno-desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate...
Armed Forces of Ukraine. Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces into the Air Force. When the Soviet Union dissolved...
Western Group of Forces (WGF), previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG) and the Group of SovietForces in Germany (GSFG)...
former Soviet armed forces in the Ukrainian SSR included the 43rd Rocket Army, the 5th, 14th 17th and 24th Air Armies of the SovietAirForces, an air-defense...
standard equipment. During World War II the United States supplied the SovietAirForces with the M4-equipped P-39 Airacobra and P-63 King Cobra. The U.S did...
Strategic Rocket Forces first in traditional Soviet order of precedence; the Ground Forces, second; the Air Defence Forces, third, the AirForces, fourth, and...
Tashkent were taken over by Uzbekistan. The takeover of SovietAir Defence Forces units from the 15th Air Defence Division at Samarkand followed on 12 November...
Airmobile Forces are the airborne forces of Ukraine. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, several Ukraine-based units from the Soviet Airborne...
Air Force (Turkmen: Türkmen Howa Güýçleri) is the air force branch of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan. It was formed from former SovietAirForces units...
Respubliki Byelarus) is the air force of the Armed Forces of Belarus, formed in 1992 from the 26th Air Army of the SovietAirForces which had been serving...
arranged list of airforces identifies the current and historical names and roundels for the military aviation arms of countries fielding an air component,...
the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September, escaped via Romania and Hungary to continue fighting throughout World War II in allied airforces, first...
Soviet prohibited airspace. The SovietAirForces treated the unidentified aircraft as an intruding U.S. spy plane, and destroyed it with air-to-air missiles...
the SovietSovietAirForces (VVS) during the Second World War. Bell P-39 Airacobra (5,007 supplied from the United States, 4,719 reached Soviet Union)...
The Russian Aerospace Forces or Russian Air and Space Forces comprise the air and space branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Russia...
aviation or naval aviation units. Typically, airforces are responsible for gaining control of the air, carrying out strategic and tactical bombing missions...
the Russian Ground Forces. These ranks also became the basic ranks for the SovietAirForces in 1918 and the SovietAir Defense Forces (from 1932 to 1949...
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