… Two air force armies were formed in the North … (the 4th Air Army) and Moscow (the 16th Air
Army from the defunct Western Group of Forces) Military Districts, which had only had air force …

… State Armaments Program 2020 the target is to replenish 80% of the current Air Force fleet
by 2020. 20 If this goal is successfully implemented then the Russian Air Force would became …

… reform launched in mid-1997 was essentially a packaging of several long-overdue structural
measures (such as merging the air defence into the air force … from the air force and the navy, …

… to the Air Forces and subordinate to the Air Force's Commander-in-Chief. The requirement
for MTA aircraft is estimated at approximately 100 aircraft. A considerable part of MTA …

… military-administrative reform. The central command bodies of the three armed services (Army,
Air Force, and Navy) have been reorganized and streamlined. Instead of six military …

… were no longer an independent branch of the armed services ranking with the air force or
navy. This ‘reform’ was a military nonsense, justified only in terms of internal politics within the …

… forces will be the backbone of the future reformed Russian army, with a division in each of the
six MDs transformed into rapid reaction forces, … North Caucasus, the air force, the Caspian …

… ,” by Russian invading forces. STRATFOR suggests that the Russian air force lacked basic
intelligence necessary for targeting, including for the suppression of Georgian air defenses, …

… the Russian armed forces. They provide the context in which the reformed Russian Air Force
… According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Colonel General AM Kornukov, 'the …

… ’ factors in the current military reform – organizational reforms and improving human factors
… Russian Air Force and the Navy will be reorganized in the same way as the ground forces. …