塞浦路斯空军司令部

战斗序列 · Cyprus

塞浦路斯空军司令部

Διοίκηση Αεροπορίας Κύπρου · Kıbrıs Hava Komutanlığı

The Cyprus Air Command (Διοίκηση Αεροπορίας Κύπρου) is the small helicopter-and-drone air arm of the Republic of Cyprus’s National Guard, founded in 1964 and never equipped with a combat jet: it fought the 1974 war with no aircraft at all, spent two decades flying Russian Mi-35P gunships from Paphos, and since 2022 has swapped them for Airbus H145Ms, Israeli drones and Western air defence while the island stays divided and its airspace is guarded, in practice, with help from Greece and the British bases.

国家标志The roundel: blue outside and at the centre, with a white ring between
0战斗机
2现役空军基地
1964创立
3已退役的类型
Photo: Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bill Dodge / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
国家塞浦路斯创立1964地位积极的总部Andreas Papandreou Air Base, Paphos指挥官Alexandros Georgiou
故事

The Cyprus Air Command story: a republic with no air force, a war without aircraft and the turn to the West

1960–1964: a republic with no air force

The Republic of Cyprus became independent on 16 August 1960 with a constitution that allowed an army of 2,000 men, 60 per cent Greek Cypriot and 40 per cent Turkish Cypriot, according to Wikipedia. What aviation it had was civil in all but name: an Air Wing with a few light aircraft for search and rescue, ambulance flights, fire-fighting and pollution control, flying in civilian markings until 1987. The constitutional order broke down in the intercommunal crisis of 1963–64 — which the Turkish Cypriot authorities describe as a planned campaign against them — and a National Guard was set up in June 1964. It had no combat aircraft. When the Guard attacked the Kokkina enclave in August 1964, Turkish F-100 Super Sabres struck its positions and patrol boats; on 8 August a 40 mm gun shot down Captain Cengiz Topel, the circumstances of whose death in Greek Cypriot custody are still disputed.

1974: the war fought without aircraft, and the night of the Noratlas

The 1974 war began with a coup on 15 July, staged against President Makarios by the military junta in Athens. Turkey landed on 20 July; the Turkish Cypriot foreign ministry says it intervened under Article IV of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee to prevent the island’s annexation to Greece and to protect Turkish Cypriots, while the Cypriot government calls it an invasion and describes the north as under Turkish occupation. The UN says Turkish aircraft raided Nicosia airport from the first day. The National Guard fought, in Wikipedia’s words, without air power. Its one air episode was a tragedy: on the night of 21–22 July Greek Noratlas transports flew commandos from Crete to Nicosia (Operation Niki), and Guard anti-aircraft gunners who had not been warned shot one down. The UN took over the airport as a protected area on 23 July, and after the second Turkish offensive of 14–16 August the ceasefire lines became the UN buffer zone.

1983–2000: Gazelles, missiles and a base at Paphos

The north declared itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on 15 November 1983; the UN Security Council called the declaration legally invalid in Resolution 541, and only Turkey recognises it. The Air Command became a military service in the proper sense only in 1987, when, according to Wikipedia, it bought Aerospatiale SA-342L Gazelles armed with HOT anti-tank missiles, Bell 206 helicopters and Pilatus PC-9 trainers. In 1997 Cyprus ordered two Russian S-300PMU-1 long-range missile systems; Turkey threatened to strike them, and in December 1998 President Glafcos Clerides had them sent to Crete, taking Tor-M1 short-range systems in exchange. The air arm’s home became the military side of Paphos airport, named after the Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou, with hardened shelters beside a 2,700 m civil runway. Cypriot media reported that air defence radars there locked on to Turkish aircraft in October 2000 and April 2002.

2002–2022: the Mi-35 years

In 2001–2002 Cyprus quietly bought 12 new Mil Mi-35P attack helicopters, serials 811 to 822, which Wikipedia says were first seen in a three-ship flypast at the funeral of Lieutenant General Evangelos Florakis on 12 July 2002. Florakis, chief of the National Guard, had been killed two days earlier with four other officers when a Bell 206 caught fire and crashed near Kouklia on the way from Lakatamia to Paphos. More losses followed: a PC-9M crashed into a church bell tower near Kolossi on 10 September 2005 during an unauthorised manoeuvre, killing both pilots, and Mi-35P 822 crashed after take-off from Paphos on 5 July 2006, killing a Russian instructor and a Cypriot student. The gunships gave a small army real firepower, but they tied it to Russian support; after the sanctions of 2022 Cypriot Russian-made systems were short of spare parts, the Cyprus Mail reported. Lakatamia, the Nicosia air base, closed in April 2013, according to Wikipedia.

2022–2025: the turn to the West

The United States eased its 1987 arms embargo on Cyprus in 2020 and lifted it on 1 October 2022, and in January 2025 opened Foreign Military Sales to the island. The helicopter fleet turned west first. In June 2022 Cyprus signed a contract with Airbus Helicopters for six H145M light attack helicopters, with an option for six more; the Cyprus Mail puts the price at 140 million euros. The 11 remaining Mi-35Ps were sold to Serbia in November 2023, for 105 million euros according to the Cyprus Mail. Airbus delivered the first two H145Ms on 26 March 2025. Greece donated an Embraer ERJ-135 for the president in September 2022, two Air Tractor AT-802 fire-bombers moved from the forestry department to a new National Guard unit in February 2025, and Israeli Aerostar and Searcher drones and the Barak MX air defence system (operational from December 2024, per Wikipedia) moved the air arm from Russian suppliers to Israeli ones.

2026: drones over the island, and what is still missing

In March 2026 the war with Iran reached Cyprus. A drone hit the runway at RAF Akrotiri, a British sovereign base and not Cypriot territory, on the night of 1–2 March, and Paphos airport was evacuated when two more drones approached. The government said National Guard radars tracked the whole flight and that the Akrotiri drone came from Lebanon; Britain’s defence ministry said it was not launched from Iran. Greece sent F-16s, a deployment the defence minister called temporary, and the government said Paphos is lent to the Americans only for humanitarian evacuations. The Paphos base is to be rebuilt from 2027 with a key US role; EU SAFE loans of up to 1.18 billion euros and a target of 2 per cent of GDP by 2028 pay for drones and counter-drone systems. What is still missing is an air force in the usual sense: about 1,200 people, no fighter, and, by a Cypriot think-tank’s count, a military balance that still favours Turkey.

The 1974 war began with a coup on 15 July, staged against President Makarios by the military junta in Athens.Cyprus Air Command · verified 2026-09-30

一览

The Cyprus Air Command in numbers

服务

本地名称
Διοίκηση Αεροπορίας ΚύπρουGreek, the name given by English Wikipedia; its Turkish form there is Kıbrıs Hava Komutanlığı (German Wikipedia gives Kıbrıs Hava Kuvvetleri). The National Guard’s own site, army.gov.cy, could not be reached to confirm the official spelling; the Cyprus Mail calls it the Aviation Command or Air Command
创立
1964Wikipedia dates the Air Command to 1964, the year the National Guard was formed (4 June 1964 per the Cyprus Mail, 15 June per Wikipedia). An Air Wing with light aircraft in civilian markings had existed since independence in 1960; military designation came in 1987
一部分
Cypriot National GuardOne of three commands with the ground forces and the Naval Command. The Chief of the National Guard is Lt Gen Emmanouel Theodorou, a Greek officer, since 9 October 2025
主基地
Andreas Papandreou Air Base, PaphosThe military side of Paphos International Airport (LCPH), sharing its runway. Wikipedia also lists Lakatamia near Nicosia as a reserve base; the National Guard article says Lakatamia closed in April 2013
空军司令部司令
Brig. (pilot) Alexandros GeorgiouCyprus Mail, 18 June 2026. English Wikipedia names Brig. Gen. George Alexandrou; start date not confirmed
国防部长
Vasilis PalmasDefence minister in all Cyprus Mail reports checked from November 2024 to September 2026

力量

人员
约1200German Wikipedia, citing Flight International’s World Air Forces 2024 (end of 2023); English Wikipedia gives the same figure
直升机
  • Airbus H145M — 3–5 delivered of 6 ordered
  • Aerospatiale SA-342L Gazelle — 4, with HOT missiles
  • AgustaWestland AW139 — 3, search and rescue
  • Bell 206L LongRanger — 2

No fixed-wing combat aircraft. H145M numbers differ between sources: Airbus delivered the first two on 26 March 2025; the Cyprus Mail said three in October 2025; Wikipedia says four delivered in 2025

固定翼飞机
  • Embraer ERJ-135 — 1, presidential transport
  • Air Tractor AT-802 — 2, fire-fighting

The ERJ-135 was donated by Greece in September 2022; the AT-802s came from the Department of Forests in February 2025

无人机
  • Aeronautics Aerostar — 4 (since 2019)
  • IAI Searcher — 2
  • Swarmly Poseidon H-10 — Cypriot-built, from 2025

Israeli types; four more Aerostars on order. The Poseidon H-10 is flown by the artillery

地面防空
  • Barak MX — about 2 batteries
  • Tor-M1 — about 6
  • Buk-M1-2 — about 8
  • Aspide with Skyguard, Mistral, 35 mm guns

Wikipedia’s estimates; the National Guard does not publish numbers. Barak MX operational from December 2024; Tor-M1 received in the 1998 S-300 exchange

国防预算
588.4 million euros (2025)Up from 584.5 million euros in 2024; the ministry aims at 2 per cent of GDP by 2028. EU SAFE loans of up to 1.18 billion euros come on top

基础设施

空军基地
  • Andreas Papandreou, Paphos — main base, shared runway 11/29, 2,700 m
  • Lakatamia, Nicosia — reserve base, reported closed 2013

Radar and air defence sites in the Troodos Mountains complete the network

Closed airfield
尼科西亚国际机场The pre-1974 international airport and former RAF Nicosia. A UN Protected Area since 23 July 1974, inside the buffer zone, with no civil traffic
Foreign bases on the island
  • RAF Akrotiri — UK Sovereign Base Area
  • Lefkoniko (Geçitkale) — Turkish drones, in the north

Akrotiri is British sovereign territory under the 1960 Treaty of Establishment, not part of the Republic; Cyprus calls the bases a remnant of colonialism. The Lefkoniko airfield in the north, which Turkish Cypriots call Geçitkale, is described by the Cyprus Centre for Strategic Studies as a base for Turkish Bayraktar drones

UN buffer zone
About 180 kmThe ceasefire line of 16 August 1974, patrolled by UNFICYP; the National Guard does not fly over the north
加固掩体
At PaphosWikipedia describes the Paphos base as having hardened aircraft shelters; their number is not published

结构

How the Cyprus Air Command is organised

One of the National Guard’s three commands, based at Andreas Papandreou Air Base, Paphos, with a helicopter squadron there and a search and rescue squadron whose base is not confirmed. Cyprus has never owned a fighter or any combat jet: the Air Command flies helicopters, Israeli drones and two fire-bombers, and Greek F-16s have operated from Paphos since March 2026 in a deployment the Cypriot defence minister calls temporary. Ground-based air defence, from Barak MX to Tor-M1 and Buk-M1-2 by Wikipedia’s estimates, and radar sites in the Troodos Mountains complete the network.

AG

Brigadier (pilot)Alexandros GeorgiouChief of Air Command (Aviation Command) of the National Guard
空军司令部Διοίκηση Αεροπορίας Κύπρου
总部

塞浦路斯空军司令部

Διοίκηση Αεροπορίας Κύπρου
Paphos

One of three commands of the National Guard, with the ground forces and the Naval Command, based at Andreas Papandreou Air Base, Paphos. The Cyprus Mail named Brig. (pilot) Alexandros Georgiou as its chief in June 2026; English Wikipedia names Brig. Gen. George Alexandrou, and the date of appointment is not confirmed.

直升机

450 Squadron

450 Mira Elikopteron
Paphos

Formed at Paphos in May 2002, per Aeroflight, and for two decades the home of the Mi-35P gunships, whose 11 survivors went to Serbia in November 2023. The Airbus H145M replaces them: six were ordered in June 2022 and the first two delivered on 26 March 2025. Where the H145Ms are based has not been confirmed officially.

搜救

460 Squadron

460 Mira Elikopteron

Formed in 2011 with AW139s for search and rescue with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at Larnaca; the Air Command has three. Aeroflight bases the squadron at Lakatamia, but whether Lakatamia is still open is disputed, so its current base is not confirmed.


在服役

What the Cyprus Air Command flies today

每种收费类型都链接到其在《野兽之书》中的页面(如果存在)。. 统计的是登记在册的飞机数量,而不是某一天可用的飞机数量。.

类型 角色 在服役 自从 单位 笔记
空客直升机H145M在服役 轻型攻击和通用直升机 2025 3–5 in service. Six ordered in June 2022 with an option for six more.

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Airbus delivered the first two on 26 March 2025; the Cyprus Mail reported three in service and three more due in 2026 (October 2025); Wikipedia says four were delivered in 2025 and lists five with one on order.

宇航SA-342L“瞪羚”在服役 Anti-tank and scout helicopter 4 1987 Four in service. Wikipedia’s National Guard article says six were bought in June 1987; its Air Command article says four; one airframe was reportedly used for spares.
阿古斯特维斯特兰 AW139在服役 搜救直升机 3 根据维基百科,共有三个。.
贝尔206L LongRanger在服役 Utility and liaison helicopter 2 1987 Two left of three bought in the 1980s.
Embraer ERJ-135 (EMB-135 Legacy)在服役 总统专机 1 2022 一。.
空中拖拉机 AT-802在服役 Fire-fighting aircraft 2 2025 二。.
航空星在服役 侦察无人机 4 2019 Four, with four more on order, per Wikipedia.
IAI Searcher在服役 侦察无人机 2 根据维基百科,有两个。.
Swarmly Poseidon H-10在服役 VTOL reconnaissance drone 2025
羚羊4
航空之星4
AW1393
贝尔2062
AT-8022
Searcher2
ERJ-1351

已下单

类型 已订购 首批交付 笔记
空客直升机H145M已下单 2025 1–3 still to come of the six ordered in June 2022 (Wikipedia: one; Cyprus Mail, October 2025: three in 2026), with an option for six more.
航空星已下单 4 Four more reconnaissance drones on order, per Wikipedia; delivery dates not published.
ALTUS-LSA Kerveros (ATLAS 8) combat drone已下单 A Greek-Cypriot programme announced in July 2026 to develop and co-produce an armed drone under the EU SAFE framework, tested with MBDA’s Akeron MP missile in Crete.

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以前运营

Every type the Cyprus Air Command has retired

3 types, from the Light aircraft of the Air Wing to the Mil Mi-35P (Mi-24PN export) Hind. 峰值数字是指飞机在整个服役期内接收的机身数量,而不是任何某一天的机队规模。.

类型 角色 顶峰 已上菜 被替换为 笔记
米-35P(出口型米-24PN)雌鹿 攻击直升机 12 2002–2023 H145M 12 new-build aircraft, serials 811 to 822; one lost in 2006 and 11 sold to Serbia in 2023.
Light aircraft of the Air Wing Search and rescue, ambulance and patrol 1960–1987 A small number; types and numbers not confirmed.
Pilatus PC-9 和 PC-9M 训练师和轻攻击 1987年 At least two: Wikipedia says two PC-9s arrived in 1987; a PC-9M serialled 902 was lost in 2005. Total numbers and retirement date were not confirmed.

空军基地

Where the Cyprus Air Command flies from

黑色的标记代表正在使用的基地,空心的标记代表已经关闭的机场。. The Air Command flies from Andreas Papandreou Air Base, the military side of Paphos International Airport; Lakatamia near Nicosia is listed as open by Aeroflight and as closed since April 2013 by Wikipedia, and the question is left open. Nicosia International Airport has been a UN Protected Area in the buffer zone since 23 July 1974, and Larnaca is the island’s main civil airport, used jointly by the Air Command according to Aeroflight. RAF Akrotiri, in the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, is United Kingdom territory, not a Cypriot base, and is not listed. Entries with no published aerodrome data carry no pin.

活跃空军基地 关闭或预订点击图钉即可打开基础页面
根据 国际民航组织 地位 跑道 部队和飞机
安德烈亚斯·帕潘德里欧帕福斯区 LCPH 积极的 11/292700米沥青混凝土
LakatamiaNicosia District 积极的
  • 460 Squadron (460 Mira Elikopteron): 阿古斯特维斯特兰 AW139
  • Helicopter-Seaplane Squadron (Mira Elikopteron-Aeroskafon): Aerospatiale SA 342L Gazelle, Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander, Pilatus PC-9, Bell 206L
  • 449 Squadron (449 Mira Antiarmatikon Elikopteron): Aerospatiale SA 342L Gazelle, Bell 206L
拉纳卡国际机场Larnaca District 左时钟 关闭 04/223,000 米
  • Helicopter-Seaplane Squadron (Mira Elikopteron-Aeroskafon): Aerospatiale SA 342L Gazelle, Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander, Pilatus PC-9
尼科西亚国际机场Nicosia District (United Nations buffer zone) LCNC 1974年关闭 14/322,707 m09/271,825 米
  • Aircraft Squadron (Mira Aeroskafon), National Guard air wing: 多尼尔 Do 27Q、Beech C-45、Piper PA-22 Colt
  • RAF Nicosia (Royal Air Force)

没有找到符合搜索结果的空军基地。.


战斗序列

Who is stationed where in the Cyprus Air Command

按基地排列飞行部队,当前部队优先。. Cypriot squadrons are numbered 449, 450 and 460, and the first two grew out of a single mixed Helicopter-Seaplane Squadron that split in May 2002; the Greek F-16 detachment at Paphos and the RAF squadrons at Nicosia before 1966 are listed too, each marked as not Cypriot. Where a unit’s base or dates rest on Aeroflight or Wikipedia alone, the entry says so.

安德烈亚斯·帕潘德里欧空军基地 · LCPH塞浦路斯空军司令部,国民警卫队
第 450 中队 (450 Mira Elikopteron)Helicopter and aircraft squadron · active
米-35P(已撤回), Pilatus PC-9, 布里顿-诺曼 BN-2 Islander(至 2012 年)
希腊空军F-16分遣队Allied fighter detachment (temporary) · allied
洛克希德·马丁 F-16(希腊)
Lakatamia · 塞浦路斯空军司令部,国民警卫队
460 Squadron (460 Mira Elikopteron)搜救直升机中队 · 现役
阿古斯特维斯特兰 AW139
Helicopter-Seaplane Squadron (Mira Elikopteron-Aeroskafon)1996–2002
法国宇航公司 SA 342L“瞪羚”、布里顿-诺曼 BN-2“岛民”、皮拉图斯 PC-9、贝尔 206L
449 Squadron (449 Mira Antiarmatikon Elikopteron)2002–2013
Aerospatiale SA 342L Gazelle, Bell 206L

没有符合搜索条件的单位。.


时间线

Cyprus Air Command milestones, 1914 to today

1960

16 August: independence. An Air Wing with light aircraft in civilian markings is set up for rescue, ambulance and patrol flights, according to Wikipedia.

1964

June: the National Guard is founded (4 June per the Cyprus Mail, 15 June per Wikipedia). 8 August: Turkish F-100s attack at Tillyria; a Guard 40 mm gun shoots down Capt. Cengiz Topel.

1974

15 July: coup backed by the Athens junta. 20 July: Turkish landing and air raids on Nicosia airport. 21–22 July: Operation Niki; Guard gunners shoot down a Greek Noratlas. 23 July: Nicosia airport becomes a UN Protected Area. 14–16 August: second Turkish offensive and ceasefire.

1983

15 November: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is declared; UN Security Council Resolution 541 (18 November) calls it legally invalid.

1987

The air arm takes military markings and buys SA-342L Gazelles with HOT missiles, Bell 206s and Pilatus PC-9s.

1998

December: after a year of Turkish threats, the S-300 missiles ordered in 1997 are diverted to Crete; Cyprus receives Tor-M1 systems instead.

2000

22 October: Tor-M1 radars at Andreas Papandreou Air Base reportedly lock on to Turkish aircraft; another lock-on on two F-16s is reported on 5 April 2002.

2002

10 July: a Bell 206 crashes near Kouklia, killing the National Guard chief Lt Gen Evangelos Florakis and four officers. 12 July: the new Mi-35Ps appear in public at his funeral.

2005

10 September: PC-9M 902 crashes near Kolossi; both pilots killed.

2006

5 July: Mi-35P 822 crashes after take-off from Paphos; a Russian instructor and a Cypriot student are killed.

2013

April: Lakatamia air base near Nicosia closes, according to Wikipedia; its Gazelles move to Paphos.

2022

June: six H145Ms ordered. September: Greece donates an ERJ-135. 1 October: the US lifts its 1987 arms embargo.

2023

November: the 11 remaining Mi-35Ps are sold to Serbia.

2024

December: Barak MX air defence becomes operational, according to Wikipedia.

2025

January: Cyprus is admitted to US Foreign Military Sales. February: two AT-802 fire-bombers join. 26 March: the first two H145Ms are delivered. 9 October: Lt Gen Emmanouel Theodorou becomes chief of the National Guard.

2026

1–2 March: drone strike on RAF Akrotiri; Air Command air defences on alert, Greek F-16s deployed. June: 2026 declared the Year of Maintenance. 31 August: Greece and Israel sign Achilles Shield, which Cyprus says will also protect it.


战斗记录

Every war and crisis the Cyprus Air Command has faced

记录中有出击次数和损失的地方都如实记录,没有记录的地方则保持空白。.

3冲突
1964第一的
3飞机失事
0被杀
  • The Battle of Tillyria 1964 The Guard had no aircraft; its anti-aircraft guns engaged the Turkish Air Force, and one shot down an F-100
  • The 1974 war in Cyprus 1974 Fought on the ground without air cover; its anti-aircraft units defended Nicosia airport and, by mistake, shot down a Greek transport bringing reinforcements
  • Air defence of Cyprus in the Iran war 2026 Placed its air defences on alert, tracked drones with its radars and worked with Greek and British forces on air threats to the island

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制造商

Who built the Cyprus Air Command fleet

本页上每架飞机背后的公司都有自己的页面:公司的故事、制造的每种机型、数量以及其他使用它们的空军。.


问答

Everything people ask about the Cyprus Air Command

What is the Cyprus air force called?
Its English name is the Cyprus Air Command, the title of its English Wikipedia article; in Greek it is Διοίκηση Αεροπορίας Κύπρου (Dioikisi Aeroporias Kyprou) and in Turkish Kıbrıs Hava Komutanlığı. It is the air arm of the Cypriot National Guard, not an independent service. The National Guard’s own site could not be reached to confirm the official spelling, and the Cyprus Mail also calls it the Aviation Command.
塞浦路斯有战斗机吗?
No. The Cyprus Air Command has never flown a combat jet. Its combat aircraft are helicopters — Airbus H145Ms and Gazelles with HOT anti-tank missiles — and its air defence rests on ground-based missiles such as Barak MX and Tor-M1. When Cyprus needed fighters in March 2026, Greece sent F-16s.
What aircraft does the Cyprus Air Command fly in 2026?
Airbus H145M light attack helicopters (three to five delivered of six ordered, sources differ), four SA-342L Gazelles, three AW139 search and rescue helicopters and two Bell 206s, plus an Embraer ERJ-135 for the president, two Air Tractor AT-802 fire-bombers and Israeli Aerostar and Searcher drones, according to Wikipedia and the Cyprus Mail.
What happened to Cyprus’s Mi-35 helicopters?
Cyprus bought 12 new 米-35P gunships from Russia in 2001–2002. One crashed near Paphos on 5 July 2006. After 2022 Russian spares became hard to get, and the 11 survivors were sold to Serbia in November 2023 — for 105 million euros according to the Cyprus Mail. Six Airbus H145Ms were ordered to replace them.
Did Cyprus have an air force in 1974?
No combat aircraft at all. Wikipedia says the National Guard fought the 1974 war without air power. The only air operation on the Greek side was Operation Niki, when Greek Noratlas transports flew commandos from Crete to Nicosia on 21–22 July 1974; National Guard gunners, not told they were coming, shot one down.
How many died when the Noratlas was shot down at Nicosia in 1974?
The sources differ. The Hellenic Air Force says the shoot-down cost a crew of four and 12 parachutists. Wikipedia says Niki-4 was lost with four crew and 27 commandos, and counts 33 commandos killed in the whole operation. The remains, buried at the Makedonitissa Tomb, were identified and 16 were returned to families in 2016.
Why is Nicosia International Airport closed?
It lies in the UN buffer zone. After Turkish air raids and fighting around it in July 1974, the UN force commander declared it a United Nations Protected Area on 23 July 1974, with the agreement of both sides’ commanders, and it has stayed closed since; UNFICYP says attempts to reopen it in 1993–94 failed.
Is RAF Akrotiri a Cypriot air base?
No. Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British Sovereign Base Areas created by the 1960 Treaty of Establishment and are not part of the Republic of Cyprus; the Republic calls them a remnant of colonialism, a claim the UK does not recognise. The Cyprus Air Command flies from Andreas Papandreou Air Base at Paphos.
How do Cyprus and Turkey describe the division of the island?
The Republic of Cyprus describes the north as territory under continued Turkish occupation since 1974. The Turkish Cypriot authorities say Türkiye intervened lawfully under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, and in 1983 declared the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which only Turkey recognises; UN Security Council Resolution 541 called the declaration legally invalid.
Is the Paphos air base used by the United States or Greece?
Occasionally. The Cypriot government said in March 2026 that it grants facilities to the Americans and other countries only for humanitarian purposes such as evacuations, and that no American aircraft were stationed there. Greek F-16s deployed to Cyprus in March 2026 on what the defence minister called a temporary basis. An upgrade of the base, with a key US role, is due to start in 2027.



参考资料及延伸阅读

所有事实均已核实

数据已于 2026 年 9 月 30 日核实。战斗序列页面由单个数据集重新生成;如果此处的数字与《野兽之书》页面不一致,则此页面为两者中较新的页面。.

Photographs: Photo: Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bill Dodge / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Photo (H145M in other markings shown): Matti Blume / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Photo (Gazelle in other markings shown): Savvas Petoussis / Wikimedia Commons (Attribution) · Photo: Staff Sgt. John Yountz / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Photo (Bell 206 in other markings shown): Savvas Petoussis / Wikimedia Commons (Attribution) · Photo (Aerostar in civil markings shown): Adrian Pingstone (Arpingstone) / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · Photo: Photographer: Mosbatho / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) · Photo (PC-9 in other markings shown): slovenskavojska.si / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)