Soviet Turkestan Military District's 49th Tactical Air Army order of battle in 1978




	Soviet Turkestan Military District's 49th Tactical Air Army in January 1, 1978

The seventies were a quiet period at the Turkestan Military District. The Soviet Union had no conflict with the Imperial Iran. Also, the neighboring Afghanistan was a friendly state.

The main type of 49th Tactical Air Army was the MiG-21 Fishbed. The 115th Guard Fighter Air Regiment received factory new MiG-21bis Fishbed-L fighters around 1976. The two fighter bomber air regiments exchanged the MiG-17 Fresco-A with second-hand MiG-21PFM Fishbed-F. Some of the old subsonic MiG-17 Fresco aircraft have been used as training aircraft.



	217th Fighter-Bomber Air Regiment’s crew in front off their MiG-21PFM Fishbed-F in Kzyl-Arvat airport in the seventies. Photo: Yuriy Lantsova



	115th Figher Air Regiment’s MiG-21bis Fishbed-L over Kokayty airport in 1979

217th Fighter-Bomber Air Regiment’s life in the seventies

Soviet 115th Guard Fighter Air Regiment’s life in the seventies

Soviet Air Force 49th Tactical Air Army order of battle map in 1978

The 40th and 64th independent Reconnaissance

Air Squadron were merged. The 87th independent Reconnaissance Air Regiment was formed at Khanabad Airport with silver MiG-21R Fishbed-H and Yak-28R Brewer-D Reconnaissance aircraft.




		Crews of the 217th Fighter Bomber Air Regiment at Kzyl-Arvat. Photo: Sednoy Vladimir




		Soviet MiG-21PFM Fishbed-F fighter-bombers in Kzyl-Arvat in 1977. Photo: Sednoy Vladimir

The new 87th independent Reconnaissance Air Regiment in the seventies.

Iranian Revolution effect on the Soviet 49th Tactical Air Army

The 115th Fighter Air Regiment's special camouflage MiG-21bis in 1979

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