List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
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Commonwealth of Independent States The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 239,796,010 ...
(CIS) includes experimental, prototypes, and operational types regardless of era. It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its successor states of the CIS. The service time frame begins with the year the aircraft entered military service (not the date of first flight, as reported by some sources). Stated production quantities, which are often very approximate, include all variants of the aircraft type produced for the USSR, unless otherwise noted. Wikipedia convention is to use the Soviet or Russian names and designations for these aircraft, not the post-World War II
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Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC) reporting names can be found
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Fighters


Attack


Bombers


Reconnaissance


Maritime patrol


Airborne early warning and control


Electronic warfare


Transport and liaison


Tankers


Trainers


Helicopters


Experimental


See also

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USSR military aircraft designation systems Pre-revolutionary Imperial Russia (before 1917) did not have a single national unified system but instead relied on those provided by the manufacturers of the aircraft, like Sikorsky Ilya Muromets or Anatra Anasal. Pre-war Soviet System The Soviet ...
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List of Russian aerospace engineers This list of Russian aerospace engineers includes the designers of aircraft, rocketry and spacecraft, and developers of auxiliary aerospace technologies from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. See also the :Russian ...
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List of currently active Russian military aircraft This is a list of Russian military aircraft in service in three branches of the Russian Armed Forces and in the National Guard of Russia. It also includes lists of Russia's experimental aircraft and aircraft in development. Russian Air Force , ...


External links

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Liu.se: online Russian Aviation Museum website + search-engine
– ''images + descriptions for over 1,300 Soviet−Russian aircraft (Swedish database)''. * â€

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