Russian Air Force

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Russian Air Force (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿-¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ c¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿, transliteration: Voyenno-vozdushnye sily Rossii) is the air force of Russia. With 2,749 aircraft, it is the second largest Air Force in the world. It is currently under the command of Colonel General Aleksandr Zelin. 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). The Air Force was formed from parts of the former Soviet Air Forces after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991-92. Boris Yeltsin's creation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on May 7, 1992, can be taken as a convenient formation date for the new Air Force.