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The Air Force was also forced to cancel Project SAINT, a satellite inspector with satellite neutralization capabilities, when details were leaked to The New York Times in 1962. Despite these setbacks, the Air Force did successfully field the Program 437 anti-satellite weapon system, which used nuclear Thor missiles to intercept enemy spacecraft ...
The role of the Air Force is to protect the air space of Ukraine. 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 the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Marine Corps and the Navy in wartime operations and peacetime exercises, disrupting enemy military movements on the ...
Eastern Air Command: 1 April 1941 Tezpur AFS, Assam: Su-30MKI [2] No. 3 Squadron: Cobras: South Western Air Command: 1 October 1941 NAL AFS, Rajasthan: MiG-21 [3] No. 4 Squadron: Oorials: South Western Air Command: 1 February 1932 Uttarlai AFS, Rajasthan: Su-30MKI [4] No. 5 Squadron: Tuskers: Western Air Command: 2 November 1948 Ambala AFS ...
The 502d Air Base Wing is a United States Air Force unit that provides installation support for Joint Base San Antonio.The 502d activated on 1 August 2009. The wing's three Mission Support Groups perform the installation support mission at each major installation in the San Antonio area.
The Zambia Air Force (ZAF) is the air force of Zambia and the air operations element of the Zambian Defence Force. Following the creation of the Republic of Zambia in 1964, the former Northern Rhodesia Air Force was renamed as the Zambia Air Force. The primary missions of the Air Force are to defend Zambia's borders and protect its airspace. In ...
The Namibian Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Namibian Defence Force. It was commissioned on 13 March 2005 at Grootfontein Air Force Base . [ 2 ] Following the independence of Namibia from South Africa in 1990, the Air Defence Wing of the Namibian Defence Force was established on 23 July 1994. [ 2 ]
Schlight, John (1996), A War Too Long: The History of the USAF in Southeast Asia, 1961–1975, Office Of Air Force History, United States Air Force, Futrell, Robert F. with the assistance of Blumenson, Martin (1991), The United States Air Force In Southeast Asia: The Advisory Years to 1965, Office Of Air Force History, United States Air Force
Retired Su-25 in 2007. North Macedonia purchased four Sukhoi Su-25 close air support jets in 2001 during the Albanian insurgency.Of the four, three were one-seat models from Ukraine, while the last was a two-seat model from Belarus (but sold via Ukraine).