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Cold War. During the 1950s presidency of General Manuel A. Odría, the Peruvian Air Force was reorganized and on 18 July 1950, had its name changed to the Fuerza Aérea del Perú (Air Force of Peru, or FAP). Peru was an ally of the United States during this period, and was predominantly equipped with aircraft built in the US and Great Britain.
On 20 May 1929, the Peruvian Air Force was created as the Peruvian Aviation Corps when the aviation units of the army and navy merged. Following World War II and the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War , the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru was created in 1957 after observations were made that the branches needed a centralized organization to ...
Army of Peru; Air Force of Peru; Navy of Peru; The project of the creation of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, which finally was approved by Supreme Decree Nº 002-GM/1 on February 1, 1957. Major General EP Manuel Cossío Cossío was designated the first president of the CCFFAA.
An earlier air security pact between the two countries was suspended two decades ago after Peru's air force shot down a plane it had misidentified, killing two U.S. citizens.
The Peruvian army aviation (Aviación del Ejército Peruano) was formed in 1971 to support army ground units. A large number of MI-8 Hip Cs were purchased in the mid-1970s to provide an airborne assault assets. This led to the purchase of the MI-17 which now makes up much of the army transport fleet.
Military Academy. v. t. e. The Peruvian Army ( Spanish: Ejército del Perú, abbreviated EP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with safeguarding the independence, sovereignty and integrity of national territory on land through military force.
The service was absorbed by the Peruvian Air Force and took on various names, including that of "General Directorate of Aerial Photography" (Spanish: Dirección General de Aerofotografía). The National Aerophotographic Service took the aerial photographs to prepare the basic cartography of the scale of 1 to 100,000.
Manuel Cossío Cossío. Website. Official website. The Chief of the Joint Command of the Peruvian Armed Forces ( Spanish: Jefe del Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú) is the professional head of the Peruvian Armed Forces. He is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the Peruvian military.