Every war Russian Naval Aviation has fought
The Second World War record rests largely on Soviet-era claims, and two Wikipedia accounts of the first Berlin raid differ. The figures for the Syria cruise of 2016–2017 are Russian and unverified. In the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost every naval aircraft loss is a Ukrainian claim or an open-source assessment, which Russia rarely confirms; each is given with the side that makes it, and the status of Crimea is given as Russia, Ukraine and the UN General Assembly state it. Where a consolidated sortie or loss figure exists in the official record it is given here; where accounts disagree, the range is shown and the disagreement named. Blank cells are blank because no figure could be verified, not because the fighting was small.
From the raids on Berlin in 1941 to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| Druhá světová válka (Velká vlastenecká válka)the war against Germany and its allies, 1941–1945Soviet Naval Aviation (air forces of the Northern, Baltic and Black Sea fleets) | 1941–1945 | Germany, Finland and Romania | DB-3/DB-3T and Il-4, I-16, Hawker Hurricanea 1 další | |||
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Fleet air defence, torpedo and mine attack on shipping, bombing of ports and of Berlin in 1941, convoy cover in the Arctic. On 22 June 1941 the Soviet fleets, except the Pacific Fleet, had 1,445 aircraft between them. The best-known operation came early: from Kagul airfield on Saaremaa, Baltic Fleet DB-3s bombed Berlin on the night of 7–8 August 1941, and Wikipedia’s account counts 57 naval and 27 army DB-3/DB-3F aircraft flying ten raids up to 5 September, 50 of them reaching the city with about 30 tonnes of bombs. In the Arctic the Northern Fleet air force defended Murmansk and the Allied convoys from Vaenga, where the RAF’s No. 151 Wing arrived in 1941 with Hurricanes that were then handed over. Boris Safonov, whose squadron flew I-16s there, was credited by the Russian historians Simonov and Bodrikhin with 20 solo and five shared victories, received the British DFC in March 1942 and was lost over the sea in a P-40E on 30 May 1942 while covering convoy PQ-16; his second Hero of the Soviet Union award was posthumous. Wikipedia says naval aviation sank two and a half times more enemy ships and crews than any other arm, a Soviet-era claim not independently checked here. Výsledek Allied victory in Europe on 9 May 1945; Wikipedia counts 17 naval air units awarded Guards status and 241 naval airmen made Heroes of the Soviet Union. The first Berlin raid is described differently in two Wikipedia articles (ten DB-3s of which five reached Berlin, or fifteen DB-3Ts). Victory credits for Safonov differ between Russian and Western estimates. Soviet claims of ships sunk were not checked against German records.
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| The Soviet–Japanese Warthe August 1945 campaign in Manchuria, Korea, Sakhalin and the KurilsSoviet Naval Aviation (Pacific Fleet air force and Amur Flotilla) | 1945 | Japonsko | Pacific Fleet aircraft (types not detailed in the sources checked) | |||
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Support for Pacific Fleet landings and attacks on Japanese shipping and ports. The Pacific Fleet, which had stayed out of the war with Germany, entered the war against Japan in August 1945 with 1,549 aircraft, according to English Wikipedia; the Amur Flotilla had about 70 more. The fleet’s aviation supported landings on the Korean coast, Sakhalin and the Kurils. Výsledek Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945. The sources checked give the fleet’s strength but no figures for naval air sorties, claims or losses; the description of tasks is general.
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| The Russian intervention in Syria: Admiral Kuznetsov’s cruisethe carrier deployment of 2016–2017Russian Naval Aviation (279th and 100th shipborne fighter regiments, shipborne helicopters) | 2016–2017 | Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front and other Syrian armed opposition groups | Su-33, MiG-29KR/KUBR, Ka-27a 1 další | 420 | 2 | |
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Strikes on armed opposition and Islamic State targets from the carrier and, after December 2016, from Khmeimim Air Base. Admiral Kuznetsov left on 15 October 2016 with Su-33s of the 279th regiment and four of the new MiG-29KR/KUBRs of the 100th. Wikipedia says the carrier’s aircraft took part from 15 November 2016 in what Russia described as a large-scale operation against Islamic State and Al-Nusra. The air wing’s problems were on deck rather than over Syria. One MiG-29K went into the sea after running out of fuel while the crew repaired a broken arresting cable; on 3 December a Su-33 went over the side when the arresting gear failed to hold it. After the second loss most of the air wing moved ashore to Khmeimim near Latakia and continued from there. Russian figures quoted by Wikipedia credit the carrier’s aircraft with 420 combat missions and 1,252 targets. The deployment was Russia’s first carrier combat operation, and so far its only one. Výsledek The carrier returned north by 9 February 2017; it has not made an operational deployment since. Sources differ on the date and variant of the first loss: 13 November 2016 and a MiG-29KUBR (MiG-29K article) or 14 November and a MiG-29K (Kuznetsov article). Sortie and target figures are Russian and unverified.
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| Ruská invaze na Ukrajinuthe war in Ukraine since 24 February 2022Russian Naval Aviation (mainly the Black Sea Fleet’s aviation in Crimea) | 2022– | Ukrajina | Su-30SM, Su-24M/MR, Be-12a 5 dalších | |||
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Strike and reconnaissance over southern Ukraine and the Black Sea; patrol against Ukrainian sea drones; anti-submarine and transport helicopters. Naval aviation’s war has been fought mostly from Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014 and which Ukraine and UN General Assembly resolution 68/262 regard as Ukrainian territory. English Wikipedia records a naval Su-30SM shot down near Bashtanka on 5 March 2022. On 9 August 2022 explosions at Saky wrecked the 43rd regiment’s flight line: Russia’s Ministry of Defence said munitions had detonated, one person had died and no aircraft were damaged; Ukraine’s General Staff claimed nine aircraft destroyed and its commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said on 7 September that it had been a Ukrainian missile strike; a Western official assessed that more than half of the Black Sea Fleet’s naval combat jets had been put out of use. Saky was struck again in September 2023 and January 2024. From 2024 Ukraine took the war to the naval bases and to the air over the sea: HUR claimed a Mi-8 shot down by a missile-armed sea drone on 31 December 2024 and two Su-30SMs west of Novorossiysk on 2 May 2025, the latter after Russian sources reported a crew rescued by a cargo ship. Drone attacks on Yeysk and Kacha followed. A Ka-29 lost over Crimea on 21 June 2024 was reportedly shot down by a Russian Pantsir, killing four. Výsledek Pokračující. Almost every loss here is a Ukrainian claim or an open-source assessment; Russia rarely confirms aircraft losses. Several claims (Taganrog, Yeysk 2025–2026) rest on Wikipedia summaries of media reports and were not checked against primary sources. Some losses cannot be assigned with certainty to naval aviation rather than the Aerospace Forces.
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Každé číslo, zkontrolované
- UN Digital Library: A/RES/68/262 Territorial integrity of UkraineAdopted 27 March 2014: 100 in favour, 11 against, 58 abstentions, 24 non-voting.
Údaje ověřeny 1. října 2026. Back to the Russian Naval Aviation.