Air division of Chinese PLA-AF
The12th Fighter Aviation Division (第12歼击机师) was anair division of theChinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLA-AF). It was established in 1950, and disestablished by 2016-18.
PLA-AFfighter divisions generally consisted of about 17,000 personnel and 70-120 aircraft. Among its notable members wasLu Min .[ 1]
It was part of the Jinan PLAAF Base, and joined theNorthern Theatre Command , but by 2016-18, it had been broken up into three new brigades:[ 2]
A typical single-seat air brigade holds 32-34 aircraft, in three battalion leader-grade flight groups (each of 8 aircraft), six spare aircraft, and a company leader-grade flight squadron of 2-4 training aircraft.[ 3]
^ Zhang 2004 , p. 193.^ Trevethan, Lawrence, and China Aerospace Studies Institute (U.S.), “Brigadization” of the PLA Air Force, 2018.https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114827 , Table 9, p39. Accessed athttps://www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Articles/Tag/148199/casi/ , August 2020. ^ Trevethan 2018, 19, 22. Trevethan, Lawrence, and China Aerospace Studies Institute (U.S.),“Brigadization” of the PLA Air Force, 2018.https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo114827 . Zhang, Xiao Ming (2004),Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea ,College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press,ISBN 978-1-58544-340-6
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