China People's Liberation Army Air Force was formally established on June1949+065438+1October1. After half a century's construction, the People's Air Force has developed into a complex of aviation, surface-to-air missile units, anti-aircraft guns, radar, airborne troops, electronic countermeasures, meteorology and other arms, as well as fighters and attack aircraft. The main tasks are to undertake national air defense, support land and naval operations, carry out air strikes against enemy rear areas, and conduct air transportation and aerial reconnaissance.

Aviation is the main component and combat force of the air force, including fighter aviation, assault aviation, bombing aviation, reconnaissance aviation and transport aviation. Sniper aviation is an arm that annihilates enemy air planes and flies air attack weapons; Assault aviation is an arm that attacks enemy ground forces or other targets; Bombing aviation is an offensive arm that bombs ground and water targets; Reconnaissance aviation is an arm that takes reconnaissance aircraft as its basic equipment and obtains information from the air; Transport aviation is an arm equipped with military transport planes and helicopters to perform air transport tasks.

Ground-to-air missile units are arms equipped with ground-to-air missiles to perform air defense tasks, and usually act together with fighter aviation and anti-aircraft artillery.

Anti-aircraft guns are mainly used in air defense operations to annihilate enemy air targets and assist fighter aviation to seize air superiority.

Airborne troops are arms that participate in ground operations by airborne or parachute. It is composed of professional departments (detachments) such as infantry, armored forces, artillery, engineers and signal soldiers. Their main task is to capture important targets or areas deep in the enemy.

The establishment sequence of China People's Liberation Army Air Force is: Air Force, Military Region Air Force, Air Force, Division (Brigade), Regiment, Flying Brigade (Battalion) and Flying Squadron (Company).

The leading organs of China People's Liberation Army Air Force have headquarters, political department, logistics department and equipment department, and their basic organizational levels are: military air force, air force (base), division (brigade), regiment (station), brigade (battalion) and squadron (company). According to the task, the air force of the military region has one or several air force units (bases) or aviation divisions, as well as one or several air defense mixed divisions, ground-to-air missile divisions (brigades, regiments), radar brigades (regiments) or anti-aircraft gun brigades (regiments). The Air Force Army (base) has several aviation divisions and necessary combat support and service support (detachments). /view/63797.htm