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2nd Aviation Division (People's Republic Of China)
The 2nd Fighter Division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force is an air formation of the People's Republic of China. It was part of the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force. The plan was to establish the formation at Shanghai Longhua Airport from personnel of the East China Military Region and the 208th Division of the North China Military Region, and the 624th Infantry Regiment Headquarters. It was formed in November 1950 at Shanghai Longhua with the 4th and 6th Regiments. It was initially mostly responsible for air defense duty of Shanghai, and it participated in the Korean War. In the early morning of August 23, 1956, Zhang Wenyi, the 6th regiment's commander, shot down a U.S. P4M-1Q electronic reconnaissance aircraft in the airspace of Zhoushan, Zhejiang. In 2007, Ma Zhenjun was promoted from commander of the 2nd Fighter Division to deputy chief of staff of the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force, when he was 43. In its last years the division operated Sukhoi Su-27 "Fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Liberation Army Air Force
The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF; ), also known as the Chinese Air Force (中国空军) or the People's Air Force (人民空军), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLAAF was officially established on 11 November 1949 and it is composed of 5 branches which are aviation, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles (SAM), radar, and Airborne Corps. The PLAAF first faced combat in the Korean War against the United States using primarily the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighter aircraft, aircraft provided by the Soviet Union, which also assisted with the expansion of the Chinese aerospace industry. Changes in the organization of the PLAAF followed by modernization programs in the 1990s and increased technology development in the 21st century has created the J-20 stealth multirole fighter, the first of its kind for China. History Korean War to the Sino-Soviet Split ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
