The 12th Fighter Aviation Division (第12歼击机师) was an
air division An air division is an air force or naval air formation that is roughly equivalent to an army division. An air division is usually commanded by a major general and it is composed of multiple wings, groups, air brigades, or equivalently-sized air forc ...
of the
Chinese
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People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLA-AF). It was established in 1950, and disestablished by 2016-18.
PLA-AF
fighter divisions generally consisted of about 17,000 personnel and 70-120 aircraft. Among its notable members was
Lu Min.
[.]
It was part of the Jinan PLAAF Base, and joined the
Northern Theatre Command
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, but by 2016-18, it had been broken up into three new brigades:
*34th Brigade (
Gongzhuling, Jilin),
Chengdu J-10A, J-10SY;
*35th Brigade (
Qihe
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, Shandong),
Shenyang J-8
The Shenyang J-8 (Simplified Chinese characters, Chinese: 歼-8; NATO reporting name: Finback) is an interceptor aircraft developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute, 601 Institute (Shenyang) in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It ...
Bs and JJ-7A;
*36th Brigade (
Gaomi, Shandong), J-10A, J-10SY;
A typical single-seat air brigade holds 32-34 aircraft, in three battalion leader-grade flight groups (each of 8 aircraft), six spare aircraft, and a company leader-grade flight squadron of 2-4 training aircraft.
[Trevethan 2018, 19, 22.]
Notes
References
* Trevethan, Lawrence, and China Aerospace Studies Institute (U.S.), ''“Brigadization” of the PLA Air Force,'' 2018. https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114827.
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Aviation Divisions of the People's Liberation Army
Military units and formations established in 1950
Military units and formations disestablished in the 2010s
1950 establishments in China
2010s disestablishments in China
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