Soviet Anti-Air Defense
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Unlike Western air defense forces, PVO Strany was a branch of the military unto itself, separate from the Soviet Air Force. It had its own chain of command, schools, radar and sound director sites. It also had its own surface to air missile and fighter interceptor units. In the 1981 reorganization, Voyska PVO was stripped of many command and control and training assets, which were given to the Air Force. In 1998, it was merged with the Russian Air Force. Its principal role was designed to intercept United States Strategic Air Command bombers as they penetrated Soviet airspace in a Cold War scenario.
The Day of Troops of Country Air Defense (Den Voisk PVO Strany) was celebrated on 10 April in the USSR.
The PVO Aircraft inventory of 1987 comprised:
- 1210 interceptors
- 420 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 'Flogger'
- 305 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat'
- 240 Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon'
- 5 Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker'
- 80 Tupolev Tu-128 'Fiddler'
- 65 Yakovlev Yak-28 'Firebar'
- 95 Mikoyan MiG-31 'Foxhound'
- AWACS aircraft
- 7 Tupolev Tu-126 'Moss'
- 1 Beriev A-50 'Mainstay'
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