149th Mixed Aviation Division

The 149th Mixed Aviation Division (149 sad) (Russian: 149-я смешанная авиационная дивизия (149 сад); Military Unit Number 63352 after 1992) was an aviation division of the Russian Air Force.

149th Mixed Aviation Division
Soviet chart of Szprotawa airfield
Active1942–2000s
Country
  • Soviet Union
  • Russia
Branch
  • Soviet Air Forces (PVO until 1952)
  • Russian Air Force
Role
Size112 aircraft (2000)
HQ
  • Khabarovsk (1942–1952)
  • Sanshilipu (1952-1955)
  • Szprotawa (1955–1992)
  • Smuravyevo (1992–2000s)
EngagementsSoviet–Japanese War

The division began its history as the 149th Fighter Aviation Division PVO of the Soviet National Air Defense Forces (PVO) during World War II, stationed in the Far East. It participated in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and was transferred to the Soviet Air Forces during the Cold War in 1952. The division was sent to serve in China for air defense before being transferred to Poland in 1955, where it became part of the 37th (later the 4th) Air Army. Headquartered at Szprotawa, the division converted to attack aircraft in 1960, becoming the 149th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division. The division was redesignated as the 149th Bomber Aviation Division when its units received the Sukhoi Su-24 in 1982 and was withdrawn from Poland after the end of the Cold War. Under the Russian Air Force, the division was renamed the 149th Mixed Aviation Division and controlled the fixed-wing bomber and reconnaissance aircraft regiments of the 76th Air Army and then the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army in the Leningrad Military District before its disbandment in the 2000s.

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