page_title: Ukrainian Air Force
section_title: Aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian Air Force / Aircraft
caption_attribution_description: English: Cadets and officers of the faculty of training of highly mobile airborne troops of the Military Academy (Odessa) during the practical testing programs for parachute training to improve skills and reinforce the personal experience of skydiving. Classes are held at the center of the educational process of the military institution. The main part of jumping paratroopers carried out the Mi-8 helicopter from a height of 600 meters with arms and ammunition. Landing is carried out both day and night. Also within the field exit of the cadets worked the landing with Mi-8 with the on-Board equipment “Adapter-M1” and the evacuation of the group by helicopter from the site where it is impossible to land. The final stage of practical training of cadets and officers of the airborne will be landing military transport aircraft An-26.
context_page_description: The Ukrainian Air Force is a part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force headquarters is located in the city of Vinnytsia. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, many aircraft were left on Ukrainian territory. Ever since, the Ukrainian air force has been downsizing and upgrading its forces. The main inventory of the air force still consists of Soviet-made aircraft. Currently 36,300 personnel and 144 aircraft are in service in the Ukrainian air force and air defense forces but approximately only eighty aircraft are airworthy. All ICBMs and strategic bombers have been taken out of service.
  Since 1991's Ukrainian independence the air force has suffered from chronic underinvestment, leading to the bulk of its inventory becoming mothballed or otherwise becoming inoperable. Despite this Ukraine still possesses the world's 27th largest air force and the 7th largest air force in Europe, largely due to the ability of its domestic defense industry Ukroboronprom and its Antonov subsidiary to maintain its older aircraft.
caption: An Mi-8 helicopter on lift off from the military training academy in Odessa
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