Ukrainian Air Force
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aerial warfare branch of Ukraine's armed forces
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Vinony's link graph records 1,037 inbound references to Ukrainian Air Force, and connects out to S-300, Mil Mi-8 and Antonov An-26.
It is catalogued under topics including 1992 establishments in Ukraine, Air forces by country and Aviation in Ukraine.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Active
- 1917–1921, 1992–present
- Country
- Ukraine
- Type
- Air force
- Role
- Aerial warfare
- Size
- 35,000 (2022) , 207 aircraft (2021)
- Part of
- Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Headquarters
- Vinnytsia
- Anniversaries
- Air Force Day , (the first Sunday of August)
- Engagements
- Soviet–Ukrainian War Polish–Ukrainian War Russo-Ukrainian War War in Donbas Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Commander
- Lieutenant General Anatolii Kryvonozhko
- Chief master sergeant of the air force
- Chief Master Sergeant Kostiantyn Stanislavchuk
- Attack
- Su-24M , Su-25
- Fighter
- MiG-29 , Su-27 , F-16 , Mirage 2000
- Helicopter
- Mi-8T , Mi-17
- Reconnaissance
- An-30 , Su-24MR , Bayraktar TB2 , RQ-11
- Trainer
- Aero L-39
- Transport
- An-24 , An-26B , An-30 , An-70
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- air force
- Part of
- Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Country
- Ukraine
- Headquarters
- Vinnytsia
- Employees
- 45000
- Location
- Vinnytsia
- Image
- Sukhoi Su-27UB Belyakov.jpg
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- Commons category
- Air force of Ukraine
- topic's main category
- Category:Ukrainian Air Force
- inception
- 1992-03-17
- owner of
- Horodok
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- social media followers
- 19800
- native label
- Повітряні сили України
- short name
- ВВС Украины
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ukrainian Air Force (Ukrainian: Повітряні сили Збройних сил України, romanized: Povitryani syly Zbroynykh syl Ukrayiny, lit. 'Air Forces of the Armed Forces [of] Ukraine', PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the eight branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU). Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces into the Air Force.
When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, many aircraft were left in Ukrainian territory. After Ukrainian independence in 1991, the air force suffered from chronic under-investment, leading to the bulk of its inventory becoming mothballed or otherwise inoperable. However its domestic defense industry Ukroboronprom and its Antonov subsidiary are able to maintain its older aircraft.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ukrainian Air Force” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.