Author: Feng statement: The story about "mongolia navy" once became a hot topic on the domestic network. Although this so-called inland naval force, dubbed the "Seven Five Seas", only undertakes the task of transporting oil on Lake Kusugur in reality, and Mongolia itself does not have a navy, this does not prevent this team with only a few people from becoming an online celebrity. When it comes to the upper reaches of water, people naturally associate it with flying in the sky. In people's traditional impression, Mongolia's national defense responsibility should be mainly borne by its army forces. The so-called navy is just for people to relax. What about Mongolia's air power? What is this military force that rarely appears in people's field of vision? What interesting history has it experienced? Things have to start from the 1920s: at that time, China was mired in warlord melee, with turbulent situation and frequent wars. The establishment of a unified organization was still an extravagant hope, but the outer Mongolia area beyond the control made the Beiyang authorities at that time too busy to take care of it. The newly established Soviet Union took the opportunity to send troops to outer Mongolia and actively instigated the separation of outer Mongolia. Although Beiyang authorities signed an agreement with the Soviet Union shortly after the Soviet Union sent troops, and once again gained the * * * right of Mongolia's foreign policy, the agreement was not implemented at all due to the struggle between various warlords and the treachery of the Soviet Union, and Mongolia supported by the Soviet Union was formally established in 1924. The establishment of a new country is always accompanied by the emergence of new national defense forces. On May 25th of the following year, a German-made Junker F- 13 (Junker Watch F- 13) transport plane landed at an airstrip near Cullen. This plane, which originally belonged to the Soviet Air Force, was later incorporated into the newly established "Mongolian Military and Civilian Flying Team" and became owned by this air force. Soon, two P- 1C biplane light bombers from Polikarpov Design Bureau joined in, followed by two PO- 1 trainers, which was the prototype of the Mongolian Air Force. At first, this military-civilian mixed flying team was very small, and limited by the actual situation in Mongolia, it did not perform many air defense and air transport tasks. The flying team spent most of its time in daily training, during which only a few air strikes against the rebels were carried out. At the beginning of the establishment of the Mongolian military and civilian flying team, the Mongolian flying students took photos with the Soviet-made P- 1C light bomber (copied from British Airco DH.9A) equipped by the Mongolian military and civilian flying team. The plane took part in several counter-insurgency operations and bombed rebel positions. It was not until a large number of Soviet troops entered Mongolia that the Soviet army discovered that air traffic lines were particularly important in the vast grasslands and deserts. As a result, a large number of Soviet planes and pilots poured in, becoming the pioneers of Soviet air defense and transportation in Mongolia. The "Mongolian dual-use flying team" which relied on the Soviet Union to provide equipment and training also officially got rid of the mixed state of military and civilian in 1937 and became the Mongolian Air Force. With the formal military establishment, Mongolia began to receive Soviet air force equipment in batches. The main fighters equipped by the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II can be obtained by the Mongolian Air Force, such as the P- 1C biplane and I-15 biplane and I-16 monoplane of Polikarpov Design Bureau. The air power in the hands of Mongolia began to grow gradually. However, because its equipment, ammunition, training and even fuel are provided and mastered by the Soviet side, even the military emblem has been used for many years, and the command is indirectly in the Soviet General Staff-the Mongolian Air Force has been like the local air force of the Soviet Union in Mongolia from the beginning. After the establishment of the Mongolian Air Force, the situation in the Far East suddenly became tense with the help of the Soviet I-16 fighter 1939, and Japanese expansionist forces began to push toward the Mongolian border. Although the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia caused great losses to the Japanese in Nomenkan World War I, so that Japan never dared to act rashly, the military confrontation between the Soviet Union and Japan did not stop. With the approaching of the world war, the Soviet Union, which urgently needed to stabilize the situation in the Far East, took over the military forces of Mongolia in an all-round way. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, many Mongolian officers and men directly joined the Soviet Red Army and went to the front line of the war to fight against Germany. Many old fighters of the Mongolian Air Force were also transferred to the Soviet-German front. 1943, Gongqijin Bumsende (гончигийнбумцэнн), Chairman of the Mongolian Little Hural Presidium. This proposal was exactly what the Soviets wanted, and in that year, the "Mongolian Alat Squadron" (эскадриья? Монгольский арат? "Alat" in Mongolian means people). It is under the overall command of the Soviet Air Force, with Soviet Air Force officers as squadron leaders. It is different from the "Flying Tigers" that the Soviet Air Force aided China and the United States fought in China during the Anti-Japanese War. The establishment of this squadron is somewhat semi-mandatory for the Soviet side. Gongchijin Bumson (left), who proposed the establishment of the Mongolian Alat Squadron, and Lieutenant Colonel Maiorov, commander of the Alat Squadron, acquired 12 La -5 fighters just after the squadron was established. They were in the Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Maiorov (алексана). Maiorov himself was awarded the title of Soviet hero after the war because of his outstanding military exploits. Thanks to the establishment of Alat Squadron, Mongolia also obtained more fighters from the Soviet Union, including Jacques -7, Jacques -9, La -5 and La -7, as well as various transport planes, reconnaissance planes and trainers. Before the end of World War II, the Mongolian Air Force had 180 combat aircraft and 123 1 officers and men, and also had a special aviation school. At the end of the war, the Mongolian Air Force was equipped with the Il -2 attack aircraft. At this time, the Mongolian Air Force finally had its own logo. A female flight student of Mongolian Air Force Aviation School took a group photo with a Po-2 trainer. After World War II, Mongolia gained international recognition, but the curtain of the Cold War fell. Although it is not in the front line of confrontation between the East and the West, Mongolia has continuously received military assistance from the Soviet Union due to its special relationship with the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the Cold War, the Mongolian Air Force followed the Soviet Air Force into the jet age. A number of well-known first-generation jets, such as MIG-15 and MIG-17, have also entered the sequence of the Mongolian Air Force. In times of relative peace, although the Mongolian air force is weak, it is more than enough to defend a country with a population of only 2 million. The MIG-15 jet fighter received by Mongolian Air Force in the 1950 s was not long, and the change of surrounding situation pushed Mongolia to the forefront of military confrontation. With the gradual breakdown of Sino-Soviet relations in the late 1950s, Sino-Mongolian relations also fell to freezing point. 1968 after the Sino-Soviet border conflict broke out, the border between China and Mongolia, which was originally barren, suddenly became tense. With the strategic intention of containing China, the Soviet Union began to send troops back to Mongolia. In the following decades, Mongolia has been a serious threat to Beijing's security. Together with the main force of the Soviet Air Force, when the Soviet army entered Mongolia in 1976, the Soviet army deployed two fighter regiments in Mongolia (namely, 104 and 126 fighter regiments under the 264 fighter division, equipped with MIG -2 1bis and MIG -23M fighters) and two fighter-bomber regiments (namely, 29 Mongolia's 1976 Soviet Air Force combat troops and the Su-17 fighter-bomber equipped by the 43rd Soviet fighter-bomber regiment deployed in choibalsan. However, by the end of 1980s, with the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations, the Soviet Union began to gradually withdraw its troops from Mongolia, and all the elite Soviet pilots who had been deployed in the front line of Sino-Soviet confrontation also withdrew to China. 199 1 year, the giant Soviet Union collapsed, and the Mongolian Air Force, which relied heavily on Soviet aid, completely "stopped". Based on Mongolia's backward industrial base, it does not mean that aircraft spare parts and ammunition can not be replenished, and even fuel can not be obtained. Mongolia's MIG 17 and MIG-2 1 were soon grounded and weathered on the tarmac until 2 1 century. The remaining helicopters and transport planes have to rely on the assistance of Russia and Ukraine to barely maintain their flight status. So far, the Mongolian Air Force has no fixed-wing combat aircraft, and its total air power is only three An -26 medium-sized transport planes, five Mi -8 and two Mi-17 helicopters, and 10 Mi -24 armed helicopters for air defense and reconnaissance. In the mid-1990s, MIG -2 1 fighters and Mi -24 helicopter gunships of the Mongolian Air Force were grounded for lack of fuel and spare parts.