![]() Until 1950, even though the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) had acquired credible offensive capabilities on the ground, it was almost powerless against reconnaissance or attacking operations from the French Expeditionary Air Force. ![]() ![]() In 1945, Bảo Đại gave the aircraft to the Vietnamese government. The first aircraft in service for the Vietnamese Armed Forces were two trainers, a de Havilland Tiger Moth and a Morane-Saulnier, which were initially the private property of the emperor Bảo Đại. The main mission of the VPAF is the defence of Vietnamese airspace and the provision of air cover for operations of the People's Army of Vietnam. It is the successor of the former North Vietnamese Air Force and absorbed the South Vietnamese Air Force following the reunification of Vietnam in 1975 and is one of three main branches of the People's Army of Vietnam, which is under the control of the Ministry of National Defence. The Vietnam People's Air Force ( VPAF, Không quân nhân dân Việt Nam (KQNDVN)), formally refers itself as the Air Defence - Air Force ( ADAF, Vietnamese: Quân chủng Phòng không - Không quân (PKKQ), lit.'Service of Air Defence - Air Force') or the Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF, Không quân Việt Nam (KQVN)), is the aerial warfare service branch of Vietnam. ![]()
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