Morskaya Aviatsiya

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The Morskaya Aviatsiya (Soviet Naval Air Service) was the Russian Navy's air service during WWII. Such air units provided air support to the Voyenno-Morskoy Flot SSSR (Soviet Navy) in the theaters of operations in the Barents, Baltic and Black Seas and also to the Soviet Naval Detachment in the Sea of Okhotsk.

The Russian Navy Air Service managed all land, shore and vessel-based (tender seaplanes and catapult vessels) hydroplanes and aircraft, as well as flying boats. The air units also conducted land operations in support of the Russian Army during landings and disembarcations and served in special wartime operations. The Naval Air Service provided some air cover to Allied convoys bringing equipment to Soviet forces from North Sea to the Barents Sea and via the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk.

In particular the NAS was deployed in defense of Odessa (June-October 1941), in operations in the Crimea and the Black Sea and carried out successful air strikes in the last stages of the conflict on the European and Pacific Fronts.

After the war, from this Air Service grew the present Russian Naval Air Service, the "Aviatsiya Voyenno-Morskogo Flota".

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[edit] Soviet Navy Air Fleets

The Soviet Naval Air Service was organized in the following Air Fleets, which belonged to the respective Naval Fleets:

  • North Sea Air Fleet (with operations in the White, Barents and North Seas)
  • Baltic Sea Air Fleet (with actions in the Baltic Sea)
  • Black Sea Air Fleet (with operations in the Black Sea)
  • Caspian Sea Air Fleet (with actions in the Caspian Sea)
  • Pacific Sea Air Fleet (with operations in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean)

[edit] Aircraft of Soviet Naval Air Service

This is a list of seaplanes, flying boats and land-based aircraft of the Soviet Naval Air Service in wartime:

[edit] Hydroplanes

  • Beriev MBR-2bis(Be-2)
  • Beriev MP-1/1T
  • Beriev MP-1bis
  • Beriev KOR-1
  • Beriev KOR-2(Be-4)
  • Chetverikov MDR-6A(Che-2)
  • Shavrov Sh-2
  • Tupolev ANT-44(MBT-2)
  • Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina
  • GST (Consolidated PBY-3 Catalina,under license)
  • Douglas DF
  • Martin M 156 (M 130 Clipper armed version)
  • Polikarpov MR-5 (R-5a)
  • Seversky 2PA-A "Convoy Figther" (hidroplane version)
  • Savoia-Marchetti S.M.62bis
  • MBR-4 (Savoia-Marchetti S.M.62bis under license)
  • Vultee V-1A (hydroplane version)
  • Ilyushin DBPT
  • Tupolev MTB-1
  • Tupolev R-6P
  • Tupolev MP-6/P-6
  • Yakovlev UT-1P (Ya-15)
  • Yakovlev VT-2

[edit] Land Based General Purposes

  • Polikarpov U-2VS (Po-2)
  • Polikarpov U-2P
  • TsAGI A-7bis

[edit] Land Based Trainers/Ground Attack

  • Yakovlev UTI-1(AIR-14)
  • Yakovlev UT-2(AIR-20)

[edit] Land based Bombers

  • Ilyushin DB-3F(Il-4)
  • Ilyushin DB-3B
  • Tupolev SB-2
  • Tupolev T-2S
  • Tupolev TB-1(ANT-4)
  • Douglas DB-7B Boston
  • Douglas A-20B Havoc (Boston)
  • Douglas A-20G Havoc (Boston)
  • North American B-25D Mitchell
  • North American B-25B,D,J Mitchell
  • Handley Page Hampden T.B.Mk.I

[edit] Land Based Dive Bombers

  • Ilyushin Il-2m3
  • Ilyushin Il-2T
  • Ilyushin Il-10
  • Petlyakov Pe-2
  • Sukhoi Su-6 (II/III)

[edit] Land Based Fighters

  • Lavochkin LaGG-3
  • Lavochjin La-5FN
  • Lavochkin La-7
  • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3/4
  • Tupolev Kr-6 (ANT-7)
  • Polikarpov I-15bis (I-152)
  • Polikarpov I-153
  • Polikarpov I-16 Type 24
  • Yakovlev Yak-1
  • Yakovlev Yak-3
  • Yakovlec Yak-7B
  • Yakovlev Yak-9
  • Bell P-39D Airacobra
  • Bell P-63A Kingcobra
  • Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk
  • Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
  • Curtiss P-40N-20 Warhawk
  • Republic P-47B Thunderbolt
  • Hawker Hurricane IIC
  • Supermarine Spitfire L.F.Mk.VB

[edit] Land Based Transports

  • Antonov A-7 (RF-8)
  • Kalinin K-5
  • Yakovlev Yak-6
  • Tupolev ANT-9-M-17(PS-9)
  • Tupolev ANT-35 (PS-35)
  • Lusinov Li-2 (Douglas DC-3 under license)

[edit] See Also

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