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image by Mikhail Revnivtsev, 7 June 2004
On official web-site of Ministry of Defence of Russian Federation (this page) is official images of flags of Army (Land forces) and Air Force, authorized by the order of Minister of Defence on June, 5, 2004
The flag of Air forces represents a rectangular bilateral cloth of blue color. In the center of flag — is image crossed silver apropeller and an antiaircraft gun on silver soaring wings. From the center of flag to corners and edges 14 extending yellow beams miss, the width of each of which at edges of a flag makes 1/12 his width. Four beams are directed to corners of flag, two — to the middle of the top and bottom edges of flag, and the others — are in regular intervals distributed in intervals between them. The attitude of width of a flag to his length — two three. The attitude of width of wingspan to length of a flag — one to two.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 7 June 2004
image by Nikolay Khimenkov and António Martins, 13 June 2000
On 12 June I saw this flag on TV. At the centre of the flag is
the Air Force’s emblem — twoheads eagle with Órossed
propeller and sword.
Nikolay Khimenkov, 13 June 2000
This image was made assuming that the background is gyronny of 28 pieces,
being divided in equiangular “sectors” of approx. 13°. I further interpreted
the image as having four rays touching each of the two vertical edges of the
flag, which delivered the unusual ratio of ≅12:25 — or rather
1 : sin(2pi/7).
António Martins, 26 May 2000
image by António Martins and Steve Stringefellow, 16 May 2000
According to the
“Russian
Aviation Page” (image mirrored
here),
the new Russian Air Force flag features a double-headed eagle (as appeares
on the current Russian coat-of-arms) at the centre,
and this flag has no sun-disc.
Miles Li, 12 September 1998
On 12 June I saw this flag on TV. The emblem at the centre of the flag is
the Air Force’s emblem, not Russia’s coat-of-arms.
Nikolay Khimenkov, 13 June 2000
image by Jaume Ollé and António Martins, 29 May 2000
Since the end of the Soviet Union the Russian Air
Force retained the previous flag,
except that the hammer and sickle (but not the red star!)
was removed.
Miles Li, 09 April 1998
image by Dave Martucci, 24 November 1999
This is perhaps the first russian air ensign,
published in 1904 in the official Album Shtandartov
[bLv04]. It is the flag of the Aeronautic
Section of the Imperial Russian Navy, bearing the badge of that service,
an upright anchor with wings. In 1924, the Soviet Union adopted a similar
design for its Air Force.
Dave Martucci, 24 November 1999
The Aeronautic Flag/Ensign illustrated in the 1917 National
Geographic [gmc17], for use by Imperial
Russia was in use from 1894-1917. The same flag was used was used by both the
Army’s Aeronautic/Balloon Unit and the Imperial Russian Navy. Officially
the Russians classified it as a miscellaneous flag, making it the de
facto oldest single aeronautic flag used by nation’s un-combined
military and naval air forces.
Jim Ferrigan, 13 April 2003
image by H B, 11 May 2012
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
Air force (fighters, bombers, attack aircrafts) used red stars on both their
wings and tails in 1990s too.
But military cargo aircraft used the flag on
the tail and did not use stars. They did it before 2010 and do it now.
"Air Code of the Russian Federation" (1997) said: "2.1.1. The image of the State
Flag of the Russian Federation shall be displayed on military transport aircraft
used for flights outside the Russian Federation,
2.1.2. Signs of state affiliation
established by the Government of the Russian Federation shall be displayed on
state aviation aircraft used for military, border, police, customs services, as
well as for mobilization and defense tasks".
Government adopted stars for
military and border services and flag for police and customs services.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 August 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (Prime Minister)
Mr. Vladimir Putin signed, on March 4, 2010, the decree # 127 ending
the ambivalence about the colors and shape of the Russian aircraft markings
once and for all:
http://government.ru/ru/gov/results/9678/.
To see it in the full, "official", splendor, click, please
on the box "DOC" in the lower right corner.
The above information was first provided to the RussoVex ml
by "Solyaris" on March 12, 2010.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 1 April 2010
The current and valid resolution:
Resolution of the Government of the Russian
Federation of March 4, 2010 N 127 "On signs of state affiliation on aircraft of
state aviation"
https://base.garant.ru/197674/
Based on this resolution the blue
bordered red star is the official, adopted and used since 2010.
Zoltan
Horvath, 23 August 2024
image by Zoltan
Horvath, 23 August 2024
The fin flash is the
stretched natonal flag with a grey shadow, attcahed as ru^fin10.png
The resolution was amended twice (in 2011
and 2016), but the symbols remained unchanged.
Zoltan Horvath, 23
August 2024
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
I found a photo of MIG-29 with national flag design with a grey shadow
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
In 2013 the Minister of Defence decided that the tricoloured stars are too
unmasking. Since 2013 the Air Force started to use decreased red stars with a
red border and sometimes '' transparent" stars with thin red outline. But the
new resolution is not adopted yet.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 August 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
See also:
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 August 2024
