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    войска ПВО, voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony, voyska PVO, V-PVO, lit. Anti-Air Defence Troops; and formerly protivovozdushnaya oborona strany, PVO strany,...
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    Voenno-Transportnaya Aviatsiya) or Military Transport Aviation. The PVO (Voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony or Voyska PVO) which was the primary fighter / interceptor and...
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    Valkyrie threatened to make the entire interceptor and missile force of the Voyska PVO obsolete at one stroke, thanks to its incredible speed and altitude performance...
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    called Voyska PVO, and had both fighter aircraft, separate from the air force, and ground-based systems. This was divided into two arms, PVO Strany,...
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  • Soviet assistance. An entire division of the Soviet Air Defence Forces (Voyska PVO), the 18th Special Anti-Aircraft Rocket Division, including the MiG-21MF-equipped...
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    down. In the late 1980s the 11th Independent Air Defence Army of the Voyska PVO, controlled two corps (23rd in Vladivostok & 8th in Komsomolsk) and four...
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  • operations by 1944-45. Also formed were the Air Armies of the Air Defence Forces (PVO), which combined all of the air formations and units of the military districts...
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    Grumble A) is the original version of the S-300. The P suffix stands for PVO-Strany (Russian: противовоздушная оборона–страны, or country air defence)...
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    (VVKO) (Russian: Войска воздушно-космической обороны (ВВКО), romanized: Voyska vozdushno-kosmicheskoy oborony (VVKO)) was a branch of the Armed Forces...
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    Russian Federation Russian: Сухопутные войска (СВ), romanized: Sukhoputniye voyska (SV) "Главная СВ". 470sv.mil.ru. Archived from the original on 25 October...
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  • force directorate VA Vozdushnaya Armiya – Air Army VDV Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska – airborne troops V-MF Voenno-morskoj flot - Naval Fleet Russian: Военно-морской...
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