The
Soviet Air Forces (, literally "Military Air Forces") was the official designation of one of the air forces of the
Soviet Union. The other was the
Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the
Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, faced their greatest test during
World War II, were involved in the Korean War, and dissolved along with the Soviet Union itself in 1991–92. Former Soviet Air Forces' assets were subsequently divided into several air forces of former
Soviet republics, including the new
Russian Air Force.