List of Regiments of The Russian Air Force - Index of Abbrevations

Index of Abbrevations

It should be noted that while the titles of the regiments are translated, the regiment type sort uses the transliterated Russian abbreviation:

• IAP - Fighter Aviation Regiment
• BAP - Bomber Aviation Regiment
• RAP - Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment
• (O)SAP - (Independent) Mixed Aviation Regiment (also sometimes translated as Composite Aviation Regiment)
• UAP - Training Aviation Regiment
• UVP - Training Helicopter Regiment
• 'IAP-PVO' indicates the regiment was part of the Air Defence Forces before 1998, and is air defence dedicated. 'IAP-VVS' indicates that a regiment was part of the Air Force before 1998, and, in most cases, they are regiments tasked with attaining tactical air supremacy. Only a few regiments have a type suffix added yet.
• TsBPiPLS - Centre for Combat Training and Flight Personnel Training
• APIB - Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment
• APON - Aviation Regiment for Special Purposes
• IBAP - Instructor Bomber Aviation Regiment
• IISAP - Research Instructor Composite Aviation Regiment
• IVTAP - Instructor Military Transport Aviation Regiment
• OAPSZ - Independent Air Regiment of Tanker Aircraft
• OIAP - Independent Fighter Regiment
• OTBVP - Independent Transport-Combat Helicopter Regiment
• OSAP - Independent Composite Air Regiment
• OTBVP - Independent Transport-Combat Helicopter Regiment
• OVP - Independent Helicopter Regiment
• OVP BU - Independent Helicopter Regiment for Battle Control
• OVTAP - Independent Military Transport Air Regiment
• TBAP - Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment
• VTAP - Military Transport Aviation Regiment

Other acronyms include:

• AB - Air base
• ABON - Air base for Special purposes
• ABSDRLO - Air Base of Long-range Radiolocation Detection Aircraft (Airborne early warning and control)
• AG - Air group
• BRS - Aircraft Reserve Base
• BRV - Helicopter Reserve Base
• CBPiBP - Centre for Combat Training and Combat Application
• CBPiPLS - Centre for Combat Training and Flight Personnel Training
• DPVO - Division of the PVO
• HQ - Headquarters
• KPVO - Corps of PVO (Air Defence Forces)
• SAD - Composite Aviation Division
• VVS - literally 'Military Air Forces,' the Russian term for the Russian Air Force
• VTAD - Military Transport Aviation Division
• UCBP - Training Center for Combat Application
• VA - Air Army

The Russian word отдельный can be translated as either 'Independent,' 'Separate' or (rarely) 'Detached'; it designates a unit which is directly subordinate to a formation commander without an intermediate echelon, such as an Aviation Division.