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This is a list of air bases operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). Facilities included in the list include all aerodromes at which the PLAAF maintains a regular presence. These may include those exclusively for military use as well as those portions of mixed-use aerodromes operated by the military.
The following list of active People's Liberation Army aircraft is a list of military aircraft currently in service with three branches of the People's Liberation Army. For retired aircraft, see list of historic aircraft of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
The People's Liberation Army Air Force ( Chinese: 中国人民解放军空军; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Kōngjūn; lit. 'China's People's Liberation Air Force'), [a] also referred to as the Chinese Air Force ( 中国空军) or the People's Air Force ( 人民空军 ), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army.
The Chinese Nationalist Air Force ( Chinese: 中國國民黨空軍) or simply The Republic of China Air Force ( Chinese: 中華民國空軍) was a Air Force formed by the Kuomintang (KMT) after the establishment of the Aviation Ministry in 1920. As tensions mounted between China and Imperial Japan in the 1930s, air units from the Chinese ...
Thereafter, the unit's designation changed several times, becoming the Air Force Marine 1st Division, the Parachute Division of the Air Force, then the Airborne Division. In May 1961, the Military Commission merged two of the three infantry divisions of the 15th Corps, the 44th and 45th, with the PLAAF's existing airborne division, to create ...
The People's Liberation Army ( PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and of the People's Republic of China, consisting of four service branches — the Ground Force, the Navy, the Air Force and the Rocket Force — and four support arms — the Aerospace Force, the Cyberspace Force, the Information Support Force and the ...
Under its jurisdiction are the 49th Regiment (adapted from the 21st Regiment of the 7th Air Division), the 51st Regiment (adapted from the 41st Regiment of the 14th Air Force Division) and the Shahe Station of the Air Force. Equipped with J-5 and MiG-17 aircraft. It [was assigned] to the Air Force of the Beijing Military Region.
The border war, the PLA's largest military operation since the Korean War, was essentially a limited, offensive, ground-force campaign. The war had mixed results militarily and politically. Although the numerically superior Chinese forces penetrated about fifty kilometers into Vietnam, the PLA was not on good terms with its supply lines and was ...