Russian Aerospace Forces

According to Jane's Information Group, with the merging of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, the new Russian Aerospace Forces consist of three sub-branches:[6]

• Air Force
• Missile Defence Forces[7]
• Space Forces

As of January 2020:

Commander of the Aerospace Forces:

• Colonel General Viktor Bondarev (1 August 2015 – 26 September 2017)
• Lieutenant General Pavel Kurachenko (acting) (26 September – 22 November 2017)
• Colonel General Sergei Surovikin (22 November 2017 – )

First Deputy Commander of the Aerospace Forces:

• Lieutenant General Pavel Kurachenko (1 September 2015 – unknown end date)[6], Chief of the General Staff
• Lieutenant General Viktor Afzalov (unknown start date – ), Chief of the General Staff

Deputy Commanders of the Aerospace Forces:

• Lieutenant General Andrei Yudin (1 September 2015 – ), Deputy Commander of the Aerospace Forces; since August 2019
• Lieutenant General Sergei Dronov (1 September 2015 – ), Commander of the Air Force; since August 2019
• Lieutenant General Viktor Gumyonny (1 September 2015 – 2018), Commander of the Aerospace and Missile Defense Forces
• Lieutenant General Yury Grekhov (2018 – ), Commander of the Aerospace and Missile Defense Forces
• Colonel General Aleksandr Golovko (1 September 2015 – )[6], Commander of the Space Forces
• Major General Andrei Kazakevich (unknown start date – unknown end date), Deputy Commander for Work with Personnel
• Major General Aleksandr Maksimtsev (2019 – ), Deputy Commander for Military-Political Forces
• Lieutenant General Vladimir Trishunkin (unknown start date – unknown end date), Deputy Commander for Material-Technical Support/Logistics
• Major General Zabit Kheirbekov (unknown start date – ), Deputy Commander for Material-Technical Support/Logistics
• Colonel Andrei Medvedkov (unknown start date – unknown end date), Deputy Commander for Armaments
• Major General Sergei Meshcheryakov (unknown start date – ), Deputy Commander for Armaments

The Aerospace Forces are organised in air armies.

Air Forces High Command (Главное командование ВВС) (Moscow)

• Units directly subordinated to the High Command (Части центрального подчинения ВВС)
• operationally subordinated to the High Command:
  • Military Transport Aviation Command (Командование военно-транспортной авиации) (Moscow)
  • Long-Range Aviation Command (Командование дальней авиации) (Moscow)
• operationally subordinated to the Western Military District:
  • 6th Leningrad Red Banner Army of Air Forces and Air Defence (6-я Ленинградская Краснознамённая армия ВВС и ПВО) (Saint Petersburg)
• operationally subordinated to the Southern Military District:
  • 4th Red Banner Army of Air Forces and Air Defence (4-я Краснознамённая армия ВВС и ПВО) (Rostov-on-Don)
• operationally subordinated to the Central Military District:
  • 14th Red Banner Army of Air Forces and Air Defence (14-я Краснознамённая армия ВВС и ПВО) (Yekaterinburg)
• operationally subordinated to the Eastern Military District:
  • 11th Red Banner Army of Air Forces and Air Defence (11-я Краснознамённая армия ВВС и ПВО) (Khabarovsk)
• operationally subordinated to the Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command:
  • 45th Army of Air Forces and Air Defence (45-я Армия ВВС и ПВО) (Severomorsk-2) - uniquely the aviation units of the 45th Army belong administratively to the Naval Aviation and the ground-based missile air defence units belong to the Air Forces air defence branch.

Air Defence and Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence Forces Command (Командование войск ПВО-ПРО) (Moscow)

• 1st Order of Lenin Air Defence and Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence Army (Special Purpose) (1-я ордена Ленина армия противовоздушной и противоракетной обороны (особого назначения)) (Balashikha, Moscow Oblast) - air cover of the Moscow area
  • 4th Air Defence Division "Hero of the Soviet Union Lt.-Gen. B. P. Kirpikov" (4-я дивизия ПВО имени Героя Советского Союза генерал-лейтенанта Б.П. Кирпикова) (Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast) (armed with the S-300PM/PS and the S-400 missile systems)
  • 5th Air Defence Division (5-я дивизия ПВО) (Petrovskoe, Moscow Oblast) (armed with the S-300PM and the S-400 missile systems)
  • 9th Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence Division (9-я дивизия ПРО) (Sofrino, Moscow Oblast) (armed with the A-135 anti-ballistic missile system)

Space Forces Command (Командование космических войск) (Krasnoznamensk)

• 15th Aerospace Forces Army (Special Purpose) (15-я армия Воздушно-космических сил (особого назначения)) (Krasnoznamensk)
• 1st State Test Cosmodrome of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence "Plesetsk" (1-й Государственный испытательный космодром Министерства обороны Российской Федерации «Плесецк»)
• Space Forces Arsenal (Арсенал космических войск) (Znamenka-1 village, Tambov Oblast)