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The '18th Guards
Taganrogskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Military-Transport Aviation Division' was Military Unit no. 18380. It was activated in June 1942 from the 4th Reserve Air Group, as the 270th Bomber Aviation Division. On 23.10.43 it was renamed 6th Guards Bomber Aviation
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321:. The Russian Air Force began in 2002 to upgrade its Il-76MD transport aircraft, but this is a slow process, only two aircraft being modernized in 2005. According to the modernisation programme, 12 Il-76 aircraft are due to be modernised before 2010, to the Il-76MD-90 variant.
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On 10 July 1964 it was renamed 11th Guards
Military-Transport Aviation Division. In April 1966 finally it was renamed 18th Guards Military-Transport Aviation Division.
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In 1988 the VTA included six separate regiments (194th Guards
Bryanskiy Red Banner Military-Transport Aviation Regiment im. N.F. Gastello at
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543:144th Airborne Early Warning Aviation Regiment -
300:The main aircraft the 61st Air Army used was the
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269:, (70th, 353rd, and 354th OSNAZ regiments), the
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120:Military Transport Aviation Command
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945:List of Russian Air Force aircraft
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562:- Il-76MD, MD-90A & Il-78
253:with the 25th Guards, 369th (
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22:Military Transport Aviation
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164:Leningrad Military District
91:Military transport aircraft
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314:; or the medium transport
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101:9 regiments
1239:Categories
804:2 November
664:References
585:Orenburg-2
259:Chkalovsky
247:Kryvyi Rih
237:(VTAD) at
209:, May 1996
954:Personnel
938:Equipment
914:Regiments
754:see also
609:- Il-76MD
524:Structure
291:Kėdainiai
251:Melitopol
227:Kirovakan
207:Kapchagay
181:from the
179:Ural-4320
93:formation
48:1998–2009
46:1955–1998
841:See also
439:Orenburg
283:Shaulyai
275:Migalovo
255:Dzhankoy
140:Air Army
567:Seshcha
515:Il-76MD
389:Seshcha
293:in the
239:Vitebsk
223:Klokovo
215:Fergana
185:at the
158:History
124:Russian
55:Country
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511:An-124
504:Tu-134
401:An-124
342:Moscow
309:An-22
305:Candid
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496:An-26
481:Il-76
466:Il-76
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360:Il-76
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