Soviet Air Force Cold War - 1960s
By the beginning of 1960 as part of the Air Force were formed far and military transport aircraft as the aircraft types. For service received new fighter jets to missiles and cannon armament. Instead, attack aircraft designed as a kind of fighter-bombers that can be used as conventional weapons and nuclear weapons. The front and the Long-range aviation and missile-carrying steel. The military transport aircraft to replace the outdated piston aircraft came turboprop aircraft, heavy-duty.
The adoption of the world's leading powers of strategic ballistic missiles and space systems for various applications required by the Soviet political leadership to take special measures to protect the country and its Armed Forces from sudden missile attack. For the first time in the world 4 March 1961 in field conditions was intercepted and struck in flight high-explosive fragmentation warhead missile warhead ballistic missiles. This was demonstrated by the interception and destruction of small high-speed targets at high altitude. In June 1962 the State Commission reviewed the draft project of the creation of the combat missile defense system A-35 for the defense of Moscow objects from single single-warhead missiles like the US "Titan-2" and "Minuteman-2" (final system is put into service in May 1978 ).
In 1967, as part of Air Defense Forces were formed special forces missile and defense the rights of an individual kind of air defense forces.
In subsequent years, the Air Force and Air Defense Forces have continued to develop on the basis and taking into account the experience of the Second World War, military conflict, and held command and staff exercises and war games, achievements of military science, the development and modernization of weapons and military equipment. To a large extent have been revised views on the content and nature of the struggle for supremacy in the air, the air operations carried out for different purposes, air support of troops and troop-transport solution to problems. Got deep study questions and a breakthrough to overcome air defense, control, communication and all types of support.
Since adopting the new early warning of missile attack, missile and defense, air defense forces re-equipment delivery, automation of management processes at the operational and tactical level significantly increased the combat capabilities of Air Defense Forces. The increased depth of the exploration area in the aerospace field, moved boundaries intercept enemy missile-carrying aircraft, increased maneuverability of fighter aircraft, all-altitude anti-aircraft missile defense has become.
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