12/23/2023 0 Comments Russian collection restoratio hardware![]() ![]() The airplanes used by Ukraine in this period included Belgium-built SPAD S.VIIs. In 1918 he organized an aviation school of the Ukrainian Galician Army Command Center which was active until 1920. Sometime in 1918 the West Ukrainian People's Republic created its own aviation corps with the Ukrainian Galician Army headed by Petro Franko, a son of renowned Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. Previously, while in Russian service in World War I, Pavlenko was in charge of air security of the Russian Stavka. Ukrainian military aviation started with the winter 1917 creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic Air Fleet, headed by former commander of the Kyiv Military District Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Pavlenko. History 1917–1945 A Nieuport 17 of the Ukrainian Galician Army Due to such increased strengthening of air space control, the number of air space violations decreased by 35% compared to the previous year, even though the amount of air traffic increased by 30%. ![]() As a result, in 2006 two illegal crossings of the state border were prevented and 28 violations of Ukrainian air space were prevented. On average, the Ukrainian radar forces detect and track more than 1,000 targets daily. Over 2,200 service personnel and civilian employees of the Air Force, employing 400 items of weapons and equipment, are summoned daily to perform defense duties. In peace-time, this is carried out by flying air-space control missions over the entire territory of Ukraine (603,700 square km), and by preventing air space intrusion along the aerial borders (totaling almost 7,000 km, including 5,600 km of land and 1,400 km of sea). The objectives are: obtaining operational air superiority, delivering air strikes against enemy units and facilities, covering troops against enemy air strikes, providing air support to Ukrainian Ground Forces and the Navy, disrupting enemy military and government, disrupting enemy communications, and providing air support by reconnaissance, airdrops, and troops and cargo transportation. The role of the Air Force is to protect the air space of Ukraine. The main inventory of the air force still consists of Soviet-made aircraft, but pilots are training to fly the F-16. Since February 2022, the Air Force has been engaged in constant combat operations in the face of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. ![]() Following the 2014 ceasefire, the air force was suspended from carrying out missions in the areas of Donbas. The Ukrainian Air Force participated in the war in Donbas. However its domestic defense industry Ukroboronprom and its Antonov subsidiary are able to maintain its older aircraft. 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. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, many aircraft were left in Ukrainian territory. Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces into the Air Force. The Ukrainian Air Force ( Ukrainian: Повітряні сили Збройних сил України, romanized: Povitriyani syly Zbroiynyh syl Ukraiyini, PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the six branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. ![]()
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