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This list of the military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) includes experimental, prototypes, and operational types regardless of era.
- Polikarpov I-5
The Polikarpov I-5 was a single-seat biplane which became...
- Tupolev Tu-14
The Tupolev Tu-14 (NATO reporting name: Bosun) [2] (USAF/DOD...
- Yakovlev Yak-28
The Yakovlev Yak-28 (Russian: Яковлев Як-28) is a swept...
- Sukhoi Su-7
The Sukhoi Su-7 (NATO designation name: Fitter-A) is a swept...
- Lavochkin La-15
Lavochkin had produced a line of prop powered fighters in...
- List of Soviet and Russian aircraft
This is an incomplete list of Soviet and Russian military...
- Soviet Air Forces
The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial...
- Polikarpov I-5
This is an incomplete list of Soviet and Russian military aircraft, from the Soviet Union's foundation in 1917 until its present state as Russia.
Catalog of military and civilian aircraft belonging to the nation of Soviet Union. This listing allows you to trace back a particular nation's aviation history in reverse-chronological order.
- Origins
- 1930s Aviation and Propaganda
- Early Combat
- World War II
- Cold War
- Soviet Air Force Inventory in 1990
- See Also
- References
- Bibliography
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The All-Russia Collegium for Direction of the Air Forces of the Old Army (translation is uncertain) was formed on 20 December 1917. This was a Bolshevik aerial headquarters initially led by Konstantin Akashev. Along with a general postwar military reorganisation, the collegium was reconstituted as the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Air Fleet" (Glavvoz...
Positive heroism
The early 1930s saw a shift in ideological focus away from collectivist propaganda and towards "positive heroism."Instead of glorifying socialist collectivism as a means of societal advancement, the Soviet Communist Party began uplifting individuals who committed heroic actions that advanced the cause of socialism. In the case of aviation, the government began glorifying people who utilized aviation technology as opposed to glorifying the technology itself. Pilots such as Valery Chkalov, Geor...
Transpolar flights of 1937
In May 1937, Stalin charged pilots Chkalov, Baydukov, and Belyakov with the mission to navigate the first transpolar flight in history[ru]. On 20 June 1937, the aviators landed their ANT-25 in Vancouver, Washington. A month later, Stalin ordered the departure of a second crew to push the boundaries of modern aviation technology even further. In July 1937 Mikhail Gromov, along with his crew Sergei Danilin and Andrei Yumashev, completed the same journey over the North Pole and continuing on to...
Folkloric themes in aviation propaganda
Soviet propaganda, newspaper articles, and other forms of media sought to connect Soviet citizens to relevant themes from daily life. For aviation, Stalin's propagandists drew on Russian folklore. Examples increased dramatically following the successes of the transpolar flights by Chkalov and Gromov in 1937. Aviators were referred to symbolically as sokoly (falcons), orly (eagles), or bogatyr (warriors). Newspapers told traditional Russian narratives (skazki) of fliers conquering time and spa...
Some practical combat experience had been gained in participating in the Spanish Civil War, and against Japan in the Far Eastern border conflicts. Shortly before the start of war with Germany a Soviet Volunteer Group was sent to China to train the pilots from the Republic of China Air Force for the continuing war with the Japanese. However, these e...
At the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet Armed Forces was not yet ready or suitable for winning a war: Joseph Stalin had said in 1931 Soviet industry was "50 to 100 years behind" the Western powers. By the end of the war, Soviet annual aircraft productionhad risen sharply, reaching 40,241 in 1944. Some 157,261 machines were produced during the w...
In 1945–46, the WPKA Army Air Forces became the Soviet Air Forces once again. Its capabilities increased, helped by Western transfer of technology: the downed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses in the Far East, and British transfer of Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines. The force became one of the best services of the Soviet Armed Forces due to the various type...
175 strategic bombers
1. 160 Tupolev Tu-95 2. 15 Tupolev Tu-160
390 medium bombers
1. 80 Tupolev Tu-16 2. 120 Tupolev Tu-22 3. 190 Tupolev Tu-22M
1,275 fighters
1. 50 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 2. 595 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 3. 90 Sukhoi Su-27 4. 540 Mikoyan MiG-29
Carson, Austin (31 December 2018). Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics. Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9780691184241-006. ISBN 978-0-691-18424-1. S2CID 239293400.Drozdov, Sergey (March 2016). "Была такая авиация... Эхо былой воздушной мощи" [There Once Was Such Aviation... Echo of Air Power Past]. Авиация и космонавтика [Aviation and Spaceflight].Hardesty, Von (1991) [1982]. "Where Was Our Air Force?". Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power 1941–1945. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. p. 55. ISBN 0-87474-510-1.Higham, Robin; Greenwood, John T. (1998). Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century. Routledge Press. ISBN 978-0-7146-4784-5.Andersson, Lennart. Soviet Aircraft and Aviation, 1917–1941. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55750-770-8.Bailes, Kendall (1976). "Technology and Legitimacy: Soviet Aviation and Stalinism in the 1930s". Technology and Culture. 17 (1): 55–81. doi:10.2307/3103253. JSTOR 3103253.(January 1976)Bergman, Jay (January 1998). "Valerii Chkalov: Soviet Pilot as New Soviet Man". Journal of Contemporary History33 (1): 136.Boyd, Alexander. The Soviet Air Force Since 1918. New York: Stein and Day, 1977. With section of black-and-white photographic plates, charts. maps and diagrams, together with index. First published...1. Yak-3. Yuri Korolev/Sputnik. From its first appearance in the skies over the battlefields in 1944, the Yak-3 became a true headache for German pilots. The lightest (over two tons) fighter...
Listing of all aircraft designed, developed or deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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