Military Transport Aviation

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Military Transport Aviation (Cold War – 1998/9)
61st Air Army (1998/9 – 2009)
Military Transport Aviation (2009–)
Active1955–1998, 1998–2009, 2009–
CountrySoviet Union, Russia
Branch Russian Air Force
TypeMilitary transport aircraft formation
Size9 regiments
Anniversaries1 June

The Military Transport Aviation Command (

Air Army of the Supreme High Command (61 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK). The 61st Air Army itself was initially formed on 10 January 1949 by renaming the 3rd Air Army. In 2009 the 61st Air Army was renamed the Command of Military Transport Aviation.[1] Its headquarters is located in Moscow
.

History

The VTA traces its history to the formation of the first transport aviation unit in the

Soviet Airborne Troops and the VTA itself was created.[3]

Unloading the Ural-4320 from the Il-76 at the Tuzla airfield in Bosnia, January 1996
The cargo compartment of the An-12 aircraft. Servicemen of the 35th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Kazakh Armed Forces prepare for parachute landing in the sky over the city of Kapchagay, May 1996

In 1988 the VTA included six separate regiments (194th Guards Bryanskiy Red Banner Military-Transport Aviation Regiment im. N.F. Gastello at

Lithuanian SSR
.

The main aircraft the 61st Air Army used was the

An-12
Cub. The Russian Air Force began in 2002 to upgrade its Il-76MD transport aircraft, but this is a slow process, only two aircraft being modernized in 2005. According to the modernisation programme, 12 Il-76 aircraft are due to be modernised before 2010, to the Il-76MD-90 variant.

Structure 2007

A Russian IL-76 transport from the Tver Military Transportation Air Base touches down at Scott AFB, Ill. on 24 October 1995. The Russians were participating in Peacekeeper '95, the first time that Russian troops trained on American soil.

Structure

18th Guards Military Transport Aviation Division

The '18th Guards Taganrogskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Military-Transport Aviation Division' was Military Unit no. 18380.

Second World War it was serving with the 1st Air Army
.

Organisation May 1945:

  • 134th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with Pe-2
  • 135th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with Pe-2
  • 10th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with Pe-2

Organisation 1955:

  • 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with Il-28
  • 128th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Panevezhis, Lithuanian SSR) with Il-28
  • 800th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Siauliai, Lithuanian SSSR) with Il-28

On 10 July 1964 it was renamed 11th Guards Military-Transport Aviation Division. In April 1966 finally it was renamed 18th Guards Military-Transport Aviation Division.

References

  1. ^ "Moscow Defense Brief".
  2. ^ "Военно-транспортная авиация России отмечает 79-летие".
  3. ^ Vad777's Soviet Airborne Troops page
  4. ^ Feskov and Holm agree on this regiment.
  5. ^ V.I. Feskov et al., The Soviet Army in the Period of the Cold War, 2004, p. 146
  6. ^ For Michael Holm's data, see http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/tap/vtap.htm
  7. ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/tap/196gvvtap.htm
  8. ^ see also http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/tap/566vtap.htm and ru:Сеща (аэродром)
  9. ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/tap/8vtap.htm, accessed November 2011
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h "Russian Federation - Aerospace Forces". Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  11. ^ http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/tap/334vtap.htm
  12. ^ Michael Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/air[permanent dead link] forces

See also

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