4th Air Army

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The 4th Air Army was a Soviet Air Force formation and is now part of the Russian Air Force. It was first established in May 1942 from the Air Forces of the Soviet Southern Front, and fought on the Eastern Front until 1945. It was the air component of the Soviet Northern Group of Forces in Poland until after the arrival of the Sukhoi Su-24, which drastically changed its taskings. In 1945-6 it included the Soviet 8th Fighter Corps, Soviet 4th Air Assault Corps and Soviet 5th Bomber Corps.

After the Su-24s started arriving, as part of General Nikolai Ogarkov`s reforms, 4 VA became an independent army with operative designation, subordinate to the HQ of Western Direction. The 24th Air Army of the South-Western Direction shared that status. Those were the only AF armies with Su-27 fighters, tasked with cover of the Fencers. On withdrawal from Poland the Army apparently consisted of the 164th Reconaissance Aviation Regiment, 245th Mixed Aviation Squadron, 151 EW Regiment (Yak-28), 239 Fighter Air Division (159, 582, 871 Fighter Regiments) and the 149th Bomber Aviation Division (3, 42nd Guards, and 89 Bomber Aviation Regiments (Su-24s).

Following withdrawal from Poland from 1992 it became the aviation component of the North Caucasus Military District.

  • 1st Composite Aviation Division
    • 559th, 959th Bomber Aviation Regiments (Su-24)
    • 368th, 461st, (Krasnodar), 960th Assault Aviation Regiments (Su-25)
  • 51st Air Defence Corps
    • 3rd Fighter Aviation Regiment, Krymskaya (Su-27) (ex 562nd)
    • 19th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Millerovo NW
    • 31st Fighter Aviation Regiment, Zernograd
    • 209th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Astrakhan (Su-27)
    • SAM Regiments
  • ex Army Aviation component
    • 55th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Korienovsk(Krasnodar))
    • 325th Separate Assault Helicopter Training Regt (Mi-26 / Mi-8)
    • 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Budyonnovsk)(Mi-8 / Mi-24/V)
    • 326th Separate Helicopter Squadron

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