Squadron (aviation)

As Season a military unit or part unit is called.

  • 3.1 Flying associations
  • 3.2 anti-aircraft missiles Service
  • 3.3 Property protection in the Air Force
  • 3.4 Special forms

Wehrmacht

Air force

An aircraft of the German Luftwaffe squadron consisted of nine to twelve aircraft and was divided into three flocks, each with four aircraft (for hunting associations) and in four chains, each with three planes. ( Fighter pilot associations)

Flight formations of the season in the Second World War, the squadron wedge, the stagger angle and the season column.

Army

In the army differently sized sub-units were designated below the size of a company / battery relay. Often this term was used to supply forces.

Examples:

  • Associations in Bataillons-/Abteilungsstärke possessed with the staff often have a Message season, at about the thickness of a half- turn, which was led by a sergeant. They were created by reducing the previous messages trains, which were led by officers.
  • Motorized battalions possessed with the staff often perform a repair season, usually in tensile strength, led by the battalion engineer.
  • In the Mountaineer trains, pack animals, draft horses were combined with horse-drawn carts and the respective animal Guide to Zugstaffeln who were led by a certain extra corporal.
  • In the supply companies motorized battalions existed, inter alia: Munitions squadrons strong up to four groups, led by the pyrotechnician Master Sergeant;
  • Fuel scales, up to two groups strongly, led by the fuel - commissioned officer;
  • Medical scales, the establishment of the federation square, led by the auxiliary doctor, the second doctor in addition to the battalion doctor;
  • Administrative squadrons, led by the paymaster.

NVA Air Force

In the air forces of the NVA a flying squadron by a pilot / troop service officer in rank to lieutenant colonel or commander and with the function name squadron commander was performed.

The independent squadron had up to 24 aircraft and was the self- association / battalion comparable.

The squadron in a flying squadron, however, had up to 12 aircraft and was based on the tactical allocation of aircraft in:

  • Chain ( chain commander, with four aircraft ) and / or Pair ( Leading and guided, with two aircraft ).

Bundeswehr

One unit of the Armed Forces, referred to as a relay corresponds to a company or battery of other branches of the armed forces or troops genres. Their leader is the owner of the disciplinary authority.

Scales, as sub-units of the Bundeswehr are special forms.

Flying associations

In flying units of the Air Force and Army units for season designation is used in company size usually. Several, usually two, flying squadrons form in the Air Force with the flight operations group within a season, the flying squadron. In the Army Aviation two seasons form a flying department in a regiment. The leader of a squadron is called a squadron commander or squadron commander. A flying squadron and a squadron flight operations are conducted by the squadron commander, who is a staff officer in the rule.

In the area of ​​technology (Technical Group / Aircraft Technical Department) is used, the term squadron; for example, the maintenance and repair season.

Aircraft missiles Service

In the air defense missile units of the Air Force ( Patriot) each one Feuerleitzug, a Abschusszug and a maintenance and transport train and a Innendienstzug be led by a squadron commander in the rank of Major.

Property protection in the Air Force

Even in the physical protection of classified Air Force units are called squadrons. They are led by a Major or Captain. Infantry squadrons differ from infantry companies of the army in the structure and strength. They consist of four trains.

In the Air Force Training Battalion is called deviation of ( training ) companies.

Special shapes

Outside the Army is in the army, a squadron, a sub-unit, which is about half the size of a company and may result in several trains. The artillery consists, for example, a battery made of several combat squadrons together. Scales is also available in the Signal Corps, here for example a mixed company of three wide-area and a Funkzug goes into the use of outline on three mixed squadrons. In this case, from sub-units ( trains) new sub-units ( squadrons ). The magnitude of these characters squadrons for tactical signs are four horizontally arranged points.

Foreign countries

The British Royal Air Force designed the plane number in their seasons ( Squadrons ) flexible in World War II. Least fixed to the aircraft number was a relay at the U.S. Air Force during the Second World War, in which a squadron of between about 5 and about 20 aircraft could have.

See also: First Season, Second Season

Swell

  • Mountaineer Company, K.St.N. 132d from November 1, 1941
  • Staff of an infantry battalion c (mot ), K.St.N. 115c from November 1, 1941
  • Supply company a Pz-StuG./Sturm-Pz. Department, K.St.N. 1151c from November 1, 1944
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