ABSTRACT
The course and outcome of an armed conflict depends on the success of operations of the service of the Armed Forces." In 1967 Soviet frontal aviation had relatively little capability on the nuclear battlefield-a situation that had changed by 1980. During the Great Patriotic War Marshal Krasovskiy had taken part in many of the major campaigns and afterward had been the commander of aviation in various military districts. The status and prospects for development of aviation equipment and weapons exert a vast influence on trends in the use of the air force. The use of airborne landing troops in operations and their thorough support are unthinkable without the broad participation of military-transport aviation, as well as of combat aircraft of all branches and arms of aviation. The use of military-transport aviation in support of combat aviation increases the maneuvering capabilities of the latter and permits the constant supply of air units with ammunition, fuel, and other material means.
