The Air Force Forces Command (german: Luftwaffenführungskommando, LwFüKdo), previously the Air Fleet Command (german: Luftflottenkommando) from 1970 to 2001, was a high command authority of the
German Air Force
The German Air Force (german: Luftwaffe, lit=air weapon or air arm, ) is the aerial warfare branch of the , the armed forces of Germany. The German Air Force (as part of the ''Bundeswehr'') was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War a ...
of the Bundeswehr, responsible for the operations of the Air Force. In 2013, it was disbanded after its functions were merged into the new
Air Force Command (''Kommando Luftwaffe''), along with those of the other high command bodies of the German Air Force.
Its subordinate elements were:
* Air Force Operations Command
** German Joint Force Air Component Command Headquarters (JFAC HQ)
* National Air Defense Command Center
* German Space Situational Awareness Center
* Air Force Support Command
*1st Air Division in Southern Germany
*2nd Air Division in Eastern Germany
*4th Air Division in Western Germany
*Air Command and Control Section 1
*Air Command and Control Section 3
*Air Command and Control Section 2
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Surface-to-Air Missile Wing 5
** SAM Battalion 22
**SAM Battalion 23
*Surface-to-Air Missile Wing 2
** SAM Battalion 21
** SAM Battalion 24
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Surface-to-Air Missile Wing 1
** SAM Battalion 25
** SAM Battalion 26
*
Air Transport Wing 61 (disbanded 31 December 2017)
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Air Transport Wing 62
Air Transport Wing 62 (german: Lufttransportgeschwader 62) is a wing of the German Air Force (''Luftwaffe''). The wing was founded in 1959 and is currently based at Wunstorf Air Base in Lower-Saxony, Germany operating Airbus A400M fixed-wing ...
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Air Transport Wing 63
Air Transport Wing 63 (german: Lufttransportgeschwader 63) was a wing of the German Air Force (''Luftwaffe''). The wing was created in 1957 and was last based at Hohn Air Base in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, operating the last German Transall C-16 ...
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Helicopter Wing 64
Helicopter Wing 64 (german: Hubschraubergeschwader 64) is a wing of the German Air Force (''Luftwaffe''). It was subordinate to Air Force Forces Command until that was disbanded in 2013. In 2015 Helicopter Wing 64 was integrated into Air Forc ...
* Ministry of Defence Transport Wing
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Fighter-Bomber Wing 31 “
Boelcke
Oswald Boelcke PlM (; 19 May 1891 – 28 October 1916) was a World War I German professional soldier and pioneering flying ace credited with 40 aerial victories. Boelcke is honored as the father of the German fighter air force, and of air ...
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Fighter-Bomber Wing 33
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Fighter Wing 73 "Steinhoff"
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Fighter Wing 74
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Reconnaissance Wing 51 "Immelmann"
*German Air Force Tactical Training Center Italy
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Air Force Regiment "Friesland"
References
Air force commands of Germany
Military units and formations disestablished in 2013
Units and formations of the German Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1970
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