The Russian Air-Space Force (Russian: Воздушно-космические cилы России, tr. Vozdushno-Kosmicheskie Sily Rossii) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is currently under the command of Colonel General Viktor Bondarev. The Russian Navy has its own air arm, the Russian Naval Aviation, which is the former Soviet Aviatsiya Voyenno Morskogo Flota ("Naval Aviation"), or AV-MF).The Air-Space Force was formed from parts of the former Soviet Air Forces after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991–92. Boris Yeltsin's creation of the Ministry of Defence (Russia) on 7 May 1992, can be taken as a convenient formation date for the new Air-Space Force. Since that time, the Air Force has suffered severe setbacks due to lack of resources, and has constantly shrunk in size. Since Vladimir Putin became President of Russia however, much more money has been allocated to the Armed Forces as a whole.On 1 August 2015, the Russian Air-Space Force, along with the Aerospace Defense Forces and the Air Defense Troops, was merged into a new branch of the Armed Forces. The Defense Minister, General Sergei Shoigu, stressed the need for greater efficiency and logistical support as the reasons for the merger. The name of the merged force is now the Russian Aerospace Forces, with headquarters at the ADF HQ in Moscow.Facebook: https://goo.gl/T3FVy9SUBSCRIBE to Fuerzas Armadas: http://goo.gl/ycu5NpDonate to Fuerzas Armadas: https://goo.gl/RLmuydFuerzas Armadas™ 2015Subscribe to Fuerzas Armadas Documentary: http://bit.ly/1i4lUyZAbout the video / Community guidelines:This footage is NOT intended to be violent, shocking, sensational, disrespectfulor glorify violence in any way. We are sharing this footage STRICTLY for the purposes of news reporting, educating and documentating. Fuerzas Armadas is a news channel where we strive to show people the news that has been left out of the main-stream media. This footage is also part of an ongoing documentary on 'events that shape our perspective'.