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Tuesday, 21 November 2017

The Russian navy air force strength according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1939 no. 6

An item referred to the Proceedings dated March 1939 reporting that the air force of the Russian navy numbered totally 4,210 aircraft including 696 training planes, 104 heavy and 300 light bombers, 490 reconnaissance planes and 2.620 fighters. The army seems to posses 8.818 aircraft including 1.400 training planes. There were fifty aircraft plants in the Soviet Union.