Yemen Air Force and Air Defence | |
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القوات الجوية اليمنية والدفاع الجوي Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Yamaniya wal-Difa' al-Jawwiy | |
Founded | 1990 |
Country | Yemen |
Type | Air force |
Role | Aerial warfare Airlift Anti-aircraft warfare Combat search and rescue Medical evacuation |
Part of | Yemeni Armed Forces |
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Commanders | |
Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Air Force | Major General Rashid Nasir al-Jundi |
Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces | Lieutenant General Sagheer Hamoud Aziz |
Insignia | |
Roundel | |
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Ensign of the Yemeni Air Force | |
Aircraft flown | |
Attack | Su-22 |
Fighter | F-5E, MiG-21, MiG-29 |
Helicopter | Ka-32, Mi-14, Mi-17, Bell 206, Bell 212, UH-1H |
Attack helicopter | Mi-24 |
Reconnaissance | Cessna 208 |
Trainer | Aero L-39, F-5B |
Transport | An-24, An-26 |
Yemeni Armed Forces |
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Leadership |
Military services |
The Yemeni Air Force (YAF; Arabic: القوات الجوية اليمنية, romanized: al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Yamaniya) is the air force branch of the Yemeni Armed Forces. It inherited its aircraft from the former states of North and South Yemen who were supported by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, respectively. However, numbers of its aircraft can not be confirmed but serviceability of these aircraft is low, as a result of most of the air force being destroyed by airstrikes during the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.