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The need for defense arose during the First World War - it was associated with the use of aircraft in combat.In December 1914 appeared the first units of airplanes equipped with machine guns and cannons.The Great Patriotic War was the high school for the Air Defense.
The famous air battles of Moscow, Leningrad.For the front air defense was a stronghold of the Soviet army.During the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet air defenses shot down more than 7500 aircraft, destroyed more than a thousand tanks, fifteen hundred shells.Soviet Air Defense Forces are particularly important task in peacetime.
February 20, 1975 established a national holiday - Day of Defense Forces.
"Day of Defense" is noted in Russia every year, the second Sunday of April.Nowadays, air defense forces transformed into the Strategic Rocket Forces and Space Forces.
They are equipped with a unique anti-aircraft defense systems, superior to all foreign analogs, radars. |
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