Need help VVS Unit info

[Wotan]

What do the following unit indications mean?

IAK = ?
IAP = fighters ?
ShAP = ground attack ?
BAP = bombers ?
GvIAP = guards ?
GvShAP =guards ?

Whats the difference in a "guards" unit and a regular unit?

thanks in advance.........

[Fariz]

Originally posted by Wotan
What do the following unit indications mean?

IAK = ?
IAP = fighters ?
ShAP = ground attack ?
BAP = bombers ?
GvIAP = guards ?
GvShAP =guards ?

Whats the difference in a "guards" unit and a regular unit?

thanks in advance.........

IAK == "Isterbitel'niy Avia Korpus" == Fighter Aviation Corps.
IAP == "Isterbitel'niy Avia Polk" == Fighter Aviation Regiment.
ShAP == "Sturmovoy..." == Attacker...
BAP == "Bombardirovochniy..." == Bombers...
Gv == "Gvardeiskiy" == Guardian.

Edit: On your second question. "Guardian" is a decoration, which were awarded to units during the action. Usually it ment that unit in future got better pilots, better equipment, and were used at more hot places. I made a short compilation of history of 9 GIAP -- you can find it here:

9giap.warriormage.com

Fariz

[Wotan]

Many thanks fariz,

[straffo]

Originally posted by Wotan
Whats the difference in a "guards" unit and a regular unit?

Guards are L33T

(sorry cannot resist )

[Wotan]

Also Im looking for a Red air force order of battle for kursk july 14-12 1943

Heres what I have.

Voronezh Front
 
2 Air Army 389 Fighters; 276 Gd Attack; 172 Day Bombers; 76 Night Bombers@ Spartak  
208 Night Bomber Air Division Kalinovka
291 Air Assault Air Division Shumakovo
1 Assault Aviation Corps Berovki
203 Fighter Air Division Ostapovka
268 Assault Air Division 266 ? Dubki
292 Assault Air Division Kul'ma/Novo Oskol
1 Bomber Aviation Corps Illovskoe
1 Guards Bomber Air Division Il'inka
893 Bomber Air Division Trostanka
4 Fighter Aviation Corps Vasil'ev Dol
294 Fighter Air Division Pestunovo
302 Fighter Air Division Shirokii Gul
5 Fighter Aviation Corps B. Psinka
205 Fighter Air Division Sukho-Solotino
8 Guards Fighter Air Division Trubezh/Oboian

Southwestern Front
 
17 Air Army 163 Fighters; 239 Gd Attack; 76 Day Bombers; 60 Night Bombers @ Roven'ki
244 Bomber Air Division Belolutsk
262 Night Bomber Air Division Zapadnoe
1 Mixed Aviation Corps Rybintsevo
2 Fighter Air Division Starobel'sk
5 Assault Air Division Novo-Pskov
3 Mixed Aviation Corps Novsosinovka
207 Fighter Air Division Aleksandrovka
208 Assault Air Division Kurilovka
9 Mixed Aviation Corps Pokrovskoe
305 Fighter Air Division Nizh Dubanka
295 Assault Air Division Ol'shana
306 Assault Air Division Budennovka

Central Front
 
16 Air Army 455 Fighters; 241 Gd Attack; 260 Day Bombers; 74 Night Bombers @ Ukolovo
1 Guards Fighter Air Division Ol'khavatka
2 Guards Assault Air Division Ryshkovo
271 Night Bomber Air Division Kazanka
283 Fighter Air Division Mokva/Kursk
286 Fighter Air Division Zybino
299 Assault Air Division Kr. Zaria St.
3 Bomber Aviation Corps Elets
6 Fighter Aviation Corps Iarische
273 Fighter Air Division Kolpny
279 Fighter Air Division Mokhozoe
6 Mixed Aviation Corps Khmel'nets
221 Bomber Air Division Pelets
241 Bomber Air Division Chernovo-Piatnitskaia
282 Fighter Air Division Kunach
301 Bomber Air Division Voronets

I would like to know which units fly which aircraft. From your site it says 8 GvIAP were in p39s...........

Thanks again.

[Wotan]

punt

[Wotan]

no knowledgable VVS in ah exluding fariz of course

[Aub]

Wotan, talk to Tilt. He knows quite abit about the Eastern Front