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Everything about Russian Air Force totally explainedDirect Reporting Units
8th Air Division for Special Purposes (Chkalovskiy)
929th State Flight Test Centre (Akhtubinsk)
4th Centre for Combat Training and Flight Personnel Training - Lipetsk Air Base
344th Centre for Combat Training and Flight Personnel Training - Torzhok(ground forces helicopters)
- 696th Research and Instruction Helicopter Regiment (Torzhok)(Ka-50, Mi-8, Mi-24, Mi-26, has used Mi-28)
- 92nd Research and Instruction Helicopter Squadron (Sokol-Vladimir) (Mi-8, Mi-24)
2881st Reserve Helicopter Base - Mi-24 - Totskoye (air base)
924th Centre for Combat Training and Flight Personnel Training - Yegoryevsk (UAVs)
Russian State Scientific-Research Institute Centre for Cosmonaut Training - Zvezdnyi Goronok
2457th Air Base of Long Range Radiolocation Detection Aircraft - A-50s - Ivanovo Severny
1st Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment - Su-24 - Lebyazhye
764th Fighter Aviation Regiment - MiG-31, MiG-25PU - Bolshoye Savino Airport (Sokol)
5th Independent Long Range Reconnaissance Aviation Detachment - Voronezh (CFE, INF verification)
185th Centre for Combat Training and Flight Personnel Training - Astrakhan
118th Independent Helicopter Regiment - Dmitriyevka [Чебеньки], Orenburg Oblast.
4020th Base for Reserve Aircraft, Lipetsk
4215th Base for Reserve Aircraft, Dmitriyevka
Training Units
Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute (L-39Cs)
Syzran Military Aviation Institute (Mi-2, Mi-8, Mi-24)
783rd Training Centre (Armavir) (MiG-29, L-39C)
786th Training Centre (Borisoglebsk)
Special Purpose Command, HQ Moscow, Moscow Military District
16th Air Army - Kubinka
226th Independent Composite Air Regiment (Mi-8, Mi-9, An-12, An-24, An-26, An-30) (Kubinka (air base));
1st Corps of PVO (surface to air missiles only);
32nd Corps of PVO (Rzhev)
Army Aviation components
- 45th Independent Helicopter Regiment (Oreshkovo (Vorotinsk) near Kaluga) Mi-24
- 440th Independent Helicopter Regiment for battle control- Vyazma - Mi-24, Mi-8
- 490th Independent Helicopter Regiment for battle control - Klokovo (4 km north of Tula) - Mi-24, Mi-8;
- 865th Reserve Helicopter Base (Protasovo/Aleksandrovo (air base), near Ryazan);
6th Army of VVS and PVO, Leningrad Military District
21st Air Defence Corps - Severomorsk
- 9th Fighter Aviation Regiment - HQ atKilp-Yavr (Poliarnyi) - Su-27;
- 458th Interceptor Aviation Regiment - HQ at Savatiya (Kotlas) - MiG-25U, MiG-31;
54th Air Defence Corps - HQ at Taytsy
149th Composite Aviation Division
67th Bomber Aviation Regiment - HQ at Siverskiy-2 - Su-24;
722nd Bomber Aviation Regiment - HQ at Smuravyevo (Gdov) - Su-24;
98th Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment - HQ at Monchegorsk (air base) - MiG-25RB/U, Su-24MR;
138th Independent Composite Air Regiment - HQ at Levashevo - An-12, An-26, Mi-8, Tu-134;
147th Independent Helicopter Squadron of Electronic Warfare - HQ at Pushkin - Mi-8PPA;
332nd Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle Control - HQ at Pribylovo - Mi-8, Mi-24;
85th Independent Helicopter Squadron - HQ at Alakurtti - Mi-8, Mi-24.
4th Army of VVS and PVO, North Caucasus Military District
1st Composite Air Division - Krasnodar
- 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment - Morozovsk - Su-24 in service;
- 959th Bomber Aviation Regiment - Yeysk - operates the Su-24 and L-39C;
- 368th Assault Aviation Regiment - Budyonnovsk - Su-25;
- 461st Assault Aviation Regiment - Krasnodar - Su-25;
- 960th Assault Aviation Regiment - Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Su-25;
51st Air Defence Corps - Rostov on Don
- 3rd Fighter Aviation Regiment - Krymskaya, (ex 562nd) - Su-27;
- 19th Fighter Aviation Regiment - Millerovo - MiG-29;
- 31st Fighter Aviation Regiment - Zernograd - MiG-29;
- SAM Regiments
11th Independent Reconnaissance Air Regiment - Marinovka - operates the Su-24MR;
535th Independent Composite Air Regiment - Rostov on Don - Mi-8, An-12 and An-26 in service;
ex Army Aviation component
- 55th Independent Helicopter Regiment - Korenovsk - Mi-24, Mi-8, reported to be in line for Mi-28;
- 325th Independent Transport-Combat Helicopter Regiment - Yegorlyskaya - Mi-26, Mi-8;
- 487th Independent Helicopter Regiment for battle control- Budyonnovsk - Mi-8, Mi-24;
5th Army of VVS and PVO, HQ Yekaterinburg, Volga-Ural Military District
General Lieutenant Mikhail Kucheryavy
128th Independent Composite Air Squadron - HQ at Koltsovo near Yekaterinburg - An-26;
320th Independent Transport Squadron of Search & Rescue Service - HQ at Uprun (Troitsk), near Chelyabinsk - Mi-8;
999th Air Base - Kant, Kyrgyzstan - L-39, Mi-8, Su-25;
Army Aviation component;
- 793rd Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Kinel'-Cherkasy - Mi-8, Mi-26;
- 237th Independent Helicopter Squadron - HQ at Bobrovka - Mi-8, Mi-24;
14th Army of VVS and PVO, HQ Novosibirsk, Siberian Military District
21st Composite Air Division - HQ at Dzhida;
- 2nd Bomber Aviation Regiment - HQ at Dzhida - Su-24M;
- 266th Shturmovik Air Regiment - HQ at Step',Oloviannaya - Su-25;
- 313th Reconnaissance Air Regiment - HQ at Bada - Su-24MR;
120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment - HQ atDomna, 27 km southwest of Chita - MiG-29;
712th Interceptor Aviation Regiment - HQ at Kansk (air base) - MiG-25PU, MiG-31;
137th Independent Composite Aviation Squadron - HQ at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport - An-26;
Army Aviation component
- 337th Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Berdsk - Mi-8, Mi-24;
- 112th Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Chita - Mi-8, Mi-24;
Two SAM regiments and four radar units
11th Army of VVS and PVO, Far East Military District - HQ at Khabarovsk
23rd PVO Corps - HQ at Vladivostok;
- 22nd Fighter Aviation Regiment - HQ at Centralnaya Uglovaya (Artem) - Su-27;
- 530th Intercepto Aviation Regiment - HQ at Sokolovka - MiG-25PU, MiG-31;
25th PVO Division - HQ at Komsomolsk na Amure
- 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment - HQ at Dzemgi - Su-27;
303rd Composite Aviation Division - HQ at Ussuriysk
- 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment - HQ at Khurba - Su-24;
- 302nd Bomber Aviation Regiment - HQ at Verino - Su-24;
- 18th Shturmovik (Assault) Air Regiment - HQ at Galenki - Su-25;
- 187th Shturmovik Air Regiment - HQ at Chernigovka - Su-25;
- 799th Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment - HQ at Varfolomeyevka - Su-24MR, MiG-25RB(?);
257th Independent Composite Air Regiment - HQ at Khabarovsk-Bolshoy - An-12, An-26, Mi-8;
Army Aviation component;
- Unknown Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Sokol (Dolinsk) - Mi-8;
- 319th Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle Control - HQ at Chernigovka - Mi-24;
- 364th Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Srednebelaya - Mi-8, Mi-24, Mi-26;
- 825th Independent Helicopter Regiment - HQ at Garovka-2 - Mi-6, Mi-8, Mi-26;
Air Armies of the Supreme High Command
37th Air Army (strategic bombers) - HQs at Moscow
- 43rd Centre for Combat and Flight Personnel Training - Ryazan - operates the Tu-22M3, Tu-95MS, Tu-134UBL and An-26;
- 22nd Heavy Bomber Air Division "Donbass" - HQs at Engels-2;
- 121st Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Engels - Tu-160 in service;
- 184th Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Engels - Tu-95MS;
- 52nd Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Shaykovka - Tu-22M3;
- 840th Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Soltsy - Tu-22M3;
- 326th Heavy Bomber Air Division - HQs at Ukrainka;
- 182nd Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Ukrainka - Tu-95MS;
- 79th Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Ukrainka - Tu-95MS;
- 200th Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Belaya (air base) (near Irkutsk) - Tu-22M3, Tu-22MR;
- 444th Heavy Bomber Air Regiment - Vozdvizshenka (Ussuriysk) - Tu-22M3;
- 203rd Independent Air Regiment of Tanker Aircraft - HQs at Ryazan - Il-78 and Il-78M in service;
- 181st Independent Air Squadron - Irkutsk - An-12 and An-30;
- 199th Air Base - Ulan-Ude;
- 3119th Air Base - Tambov;
- Unknown Air Base - Tiksi;
61st Air Army (former Military Transport Aviation) - Moscow
- 610th Centre for Combat and Flight Personnel Training - HQs at Ivanovo Severny;
- Unknown Instructor Military Transport Air Squadron - Ivanovo - operates the Il-76;
- 12th Military Transport Air Division - Tver (Migalovo);
- 196th Military Transport Air Regiment - Tver - Il-76 in service;
- 566th Military Transport Air Regiment - Seshcha - Il-76, An-124;
- 76th Independent Military Transport Air Squadron - Tver - An-22;
- 103rd Military Transport Air Regiment - Smolensk - Il-76;
- 110th Military Transport Air Regiment - Krechevitsy - Il-76;
- 117th Military Transport Air Regiment - Orenburg - Il-76, An-12;
- 334th Military Transport Air Regiment - Pskov - Il-76;
- 708th Military Transport Air Regiment - Taganrog - Il-76;
- 78th Independent Military Transport Air Squadron - Klin-5 - operates An-26, An-12 and Tu-134;
- 224th Air Detachment of Military Transport Aviation - Tver - An-124, Il-76MD;
- one communications centre
The List of Soviet Air Force bases shows a number which are still active with the Russian Air Force.
Aircraft inventory
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| Yakovlev Yak-130
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| Yak-130
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| 60 ordered, to be commissioned from 2015
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| Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker
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| Air Superiority Fighter
| Su-27
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|Warfare.ru: 350 + 52 trng a/c, inc 5 -27SM(External Link)
IISS Mil Bal 07: 281, inc 18 -27SM
Globalsecurity.org: 321(External Link)
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| Sukhoi Su-30 Flanker-C
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| Air Superiority Fighter
| Su-30
| 10
| Only 10 in service due to budgetary problems
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| Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker-D
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| Air Superiority Fighter
| Su-33
| 23
| Designed for service on the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
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| Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E
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| Air Superiority Fighter
| Su-35
| 15 built, 5 are in active service.
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| Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum
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| Multirole Aircraft
| MiG-29
|Differs by source
|Warfare.ru: 380 +150 reserve + 50 trng Globalsecurity.org: 266
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| Sukhoi T-50
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| Air Superiority Fighter
| 2 (Testbeds)
| To be mass produced from 2012
| Fifth Generation multirole/Air Superiority fighter.
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| Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound
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| Interceptor
| MiG-31
| Differs by source
|Warfare.ru: 256 active, ~100 reserve GS.org/IISS MilBal 07: 188
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| Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer
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| Tactical Bomber
| Su-24M
| 450
| 400 Frontal Air Force; 50 Navy, planned modernization to reach Su-24M2 level
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| Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot
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| Attacker
| Su-25
| 241
| 231 Frontal Air Force; 10 Navy, planned modernization to reach Su-25SM level.
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| Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback
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| Fighter-bomber
| Su-34
| Differs by source
| GS.org: 4, Flight Intl: 2 on hand, plus 6 more in 2007, IISS MilBal 07: 2 on hand, plus 7 more in 2007
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| Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire
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| Strategic bomber
| Tu-22M3
| 158
| 158 (37th Air Army), planned modernization to reach Tu-22M5
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| Tupolev Tu-95 Bear
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| Strategic bomber
| Tu-95MS
| 64
| 64 (37th Air Army), planned modernization of 35 to reach Tu-95MSM
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| Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack
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| Strategic bomber
| Tu-160
| 16
| 16 (37th Air Army), planned modernization to reach Tu-160M
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| Ilyushin Il-76 Candid
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| Transport
| IL-76MD
| 220
| Planned modernization to reach Il-76MD-90
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| Ilyushin Il-112
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| Light Transport
| Il-112V
| 0
| 18 to be delivered until 2015
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| Antonov An-22 'Antey' Cock
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| Transport
| An-22
| 3 flying + several stored
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| Antonov An-72 Coaler
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| Transport
| An-72
| 20
| IISS doesn't list any in service
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| Antonov An-124 'Ruslan' Condor
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| Transport
| An-124
| 25
| 14 says IISS
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| Ilyushin Il-80 Maxdome
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| Command Post
| Il-80
| 4
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| Tupolev Tu-214
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| Command Post / VIP
| Tu-214-100
| 4(ordered)
| 1 in final stages and 3 in construction
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| Ilyushin Il-78 Midas
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| Refueling Tanker
| IL-78
| 19
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| Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer
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| Reconnaissance
| Su-24MR
| 79
| 79 Frontal Air Force
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| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25RB Foxbat
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| Reconnaissance
| MiG-25RB
| 70
| 30 MiG-25 fighter versions and 40 Mig-25RB Reccon. aircraft.
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| Beriev A-50 'Shmel' Mainstay
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| AWACS-Reconnaissance
| Beriev A-50
| 19
| currently being modernized to A-50M standard
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| Kamov Ka-50 'Black Shark' Hokum A
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| Attack Helicopter
| Ka-50
| 16
| 3 more to be commissioned this year
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| Kamov Ka-52 'Alligator' Hokum B
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| Attack Helicopter
| Ka-52
| 9
| Special Forces - 12 more to be commissioned by 2015
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| Mil Mi-24 Hind
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| Attack helicopter
| Mi-24
| 260
| 240 Air Force, 20 Navy - All to be replaced within 2015 by Mi-28s
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| Attack Helicopter
| Mi-28
| 10
| 300 to be delivered by 2015
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| Mil Mi-8 Hip
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| Transport Helicopter
| Mi-8
| 195
| 160 Air Force, 35 Navy
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| Mil Mi-26 Halo
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| Transport Helicopter
| Mil Mi-26
| 45
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| Kamov Ka-60 Orca
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| Transport Helicopter
| Ka-60
| 8
| 200 ordered
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| Kamov Ka-27 Helix
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| ASW Helicopter
| Ka-27
| 88
| Navy
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| Mil Mi-14 Haze
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| ASW Helicopter
| Mi-14
| 9
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Gallery of images
Image:Mig-29 on landing.jpg|Mikoyan MiG-29
Image:Su-27_low_pass.jpg|Sukhoi Su-27
Image:MiG-31 in flight.jpg|Mikoyan MiG-31
Image:Su-24 Fencer left side.jpg|Sukhoi Su-24
Image:Tu-95-2.jpg|Tupolev Tu-95
Image:Tu 160 NTW 2 3 94 2.jpg|Tupolev Tu-160
Image:Sudan Nyala Airport Ilyushin-76.jpg|Ilyushin Il-76
Image:Antonov An-124 EFHK.jpg|Antonov An-124 Ruslan
Image:Mi-28 Havoc.jpg|Mil Mi-28
Image:Mi-24 Desert Rescue.jpg|Mil Mi-24
Image:Ka-50 NTW 7 8 93.jpg|Ka-50
Image:Imagen_012.jpg|Mi-26
Image:Yakovlev_Yak-130_MAKS_2005.jpg|Yakovlev Yak-130
Image:Su-25UB2.jpg|Sukhoi Su-25
Image:MAKS-2007-Mi-8.jpg|Mil Mi-8 attack/transport helicopter
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