The Russian Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is presently under the command of Colonel General Viktor Bondarev. The Russian Navy has its own air arm, the Russian Naval Aviation, which is the former Soviet Aviatsiya Voyenno Morskogo Flota ("Naval Aviation"), or AV-MF).
Boris Yeltsin's development of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on 7 May 1992, can be taken as a hassle-free development day for the brand-new Air Force. Since Vladimir Putin became President of the Russian Federation nonetheless, much more cash has actually been assigned to the Armed Forces as a whole.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union right into its fifteen constituent republics in December 1991, the aircraft and personnel of the Soviet Air Forces-- the VVS were split amongst the newly independent states. General Pyotr Deynekin, the former replacement commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Forces, became the first leader of the new organisation on 24 August 1991. The major commands of the former Soviet VVS-- the Long Range Aviation, Military Transport Aviation and Frontal Aviation were relabelled, with few changes, Russian VVS commands.
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