Soviet Air Forces

Военно-воздушные силы СССР Voyenno-vozdushnye sily USSR
Flag of the Soviet Air Force
Active	24 May 1918
Country	USSR
Main Staff	Moscow

Soviet Air Force inventory as of 1990

Soviet Tu-16

Soviet MiG-23MLD (NATO – Flogger K) aircraft.

Sukhoi Su-15 (NATO code Flagon)

Sukhoi Su-24 ground attack aircraft.

Soviet Mil Mi-8T helicopter.

See also: List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

205 strategic bombers

160 Tupolev Tu-95 Bear

15 Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack

30 Myasishchev M-4 Bison

230 medium bombers^[16]

30 Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire

80 Tupolev Tu-16 Badger

120 Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder

1,750 fighters

90 Su-27 Flanker

540 MiG-29 Fulcrum

600 MiG-23 Flogger

185 MiG-21 Fishbed

200 MiG-31 Foxhound

40 MiG-25 Foxbat

2,105 attack aircraft

630 Su-24 Fencer

535 Su-17 Fitter

500 MiG-27 Flogger-D

340 Su-25 Frogfoot

84 tankers

34 Ilyushin Il-76 Midas

30 Myasishchev M-4 'Molot' Bison

20 Tupolev Tu-16 Badger

40 AWACS

40 Beriev A-50 Mainstay

658 tactical reconnaissance and ECM aircraft

65 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed

195 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat

65 Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer

195 Yakovlev Yak-28 Brewer

260 strategic reconnaissance and ECM aircraft

115 Tupolev Tu-16 Badger

15 Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder

4 Tupolev Tu-95 Bear

102 Yakovlev Yak-28 Brewer

24 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat

3,050 helicopters

1,500 trainers and training helicopters

615 transport aircraft

40 Antonov An-124 'Ruslan' Condor

55 Antonov An-22 'Antey' Cock

210 Antonov An-12 Cub

310 Ilyushin Il-76 Candid

2,935 civilian and other transport aircraft, usually Aeroflot aircraft which were easily converted