Commander of Air and Air Defence Forces | |
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![]() Flag of the Air and Air Defence Forces | |
Ministry of Defence | |
Reports to | Chief of the General Staff |
Seat | Tashkent |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of Uzbekistan |
The Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is the administrative head in the Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces, and is under the Chief of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defence. The current Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is Major General Akhmad Burkhanov. The Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is a de facto Deputy Minister of Defence.
No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) | Term of office | Ref. | Notes | |
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Took office | Left office | |||||
![]() | Major General Tohir Yusupov | 1992 | ||||
![]() | Major General | 2003 | 2008 | [1] [2] | In 1975, he graduated from Syzran Higher Military Aviation School [3] and began serving in Transcaucasian Military District as a pilot. In the early 80s, he participated in hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He graduated from Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1987. That same year, he was deployed to the Mongolian People's Republic as part of a contingent from the Transbaikal Military District. In 1990, he became the Deputy Commander of a regiment of the Far Eastern Military District. He became commander of the military transport aviation regiment (Tuzel) shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1997, he was appointed a commander of a military transport aviation base. Upon the turn of the 21st century in the year 2000, he was appointed the air force's head of the flight training, becoming an inspector-adviser a year later. In 2002, he was promoted to the post of deputy commander and in 2003 became the commander of the air defense and air forces. In 2008, he became head of the flight safety department of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan. In 2009, he retired from military service. [4] He is a recipient of the Shon-Sharaf Order. [5] | |
![]() ![]() | Major General Akhmad Burkhanov | 2018 | Incumbent | [6] |