Jordanian Air Force
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Royal Jordanian Air Force |
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 Flag of the RJAF |
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| Lineup | September 25, 1955 |
| Country |
 Jordan
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| Armed forces | Armed Forces of Jordan |
| Type | Armed forces ( air force ) |
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| Commander of the Air Force | Major General Yousef Ahmad Alhuniti |
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| Aircraft cockade |
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| National emblem ( vertical stabilizer ) |
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Jordanian Air Force Bases (blue) and cities (red) |
The Royal Jordanian Air Force ( Arabic سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني, DMG Ṣilāḥ al-Ǧauw al-Malakī al-Urdunnī ; English Royal Jordanian Air Force , abbreviated RJAF ) is the air force of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Jordan .
history
On September 25, 1955, King Talal founded the Royal Air Force, organizing the air force from the Air Force of the Arab Legion (ALAF). In 1962, King Hussein ordered a squadron of the Air Force to serve on the side of the royalists in the Yemeni civil war. The chief of the air force and two pilots then went to Egypt. As a result, Hussein withdrew the order.
The Air Forces participated in several wars with Israel and played a crucial role in repelling a Syrian intervention with ground forces in the wake of Black September . The Jordanian Air Force has been rated by the Israeli military several times as the Arab Air Force with the highest level of training.
Since 1978 the Royal Air Force has had an official aerobatic team , the Royal Jordanian Falcons , based at Aqaba Airport .
Air bases
On the RJAF official website:
- King Abdullah I Air Base (Marka International Airport)
- King Abdullah II Air Base
- King Feisal Air Base
- King Hussein Air Base & Air College
- Muwaffaq Salti Air Base
- Prince Hassan Air Base
Current equipment
Status: end of 2013
| Aircraft | origin | use | version | active | Ordered | Remarks | |
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| Planes | |||||||
| Northrop F-5 Tiger II |
 United States
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Light fighter aircraft trainer aircraft |
F-5E F-5F |
32 8 |
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| General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon |
United States
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Multipurpose fighter aircraft trainer aircraft |
F-16A F-16B |
42 18 |
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| Grob G 120TP |
 Germany
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Trainer aircraft | G 120TP | 14th | |||
| CASA C-101 Aviojet |
 Spain
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Trainer aircraft | 10 | ||||
| Slingsby T-67 Firefly |
 United Kingdom
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Trainer aircraft | 13 | ||||
| Pilatus PC-21 |
 Switzerland
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Trainer aircraft | PC-21 | 8th | Delivery planned from January 2017 | ||
| Lockheed C-130 Hercules |
United States
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Transport plane | C-130E C-130H |
7th | |||
| CASA C-212 |
Spain
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Light STOL transport aircraft | 1 | ||||
| CASA C-295 |
Spain
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Tactical transport aircraft | 2 | ||||
| Cessna 208 Caravan |
United States
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6th | |||||
| helicopter | |||||||
| Bell AH-1 Cobra |
United States
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Light attack helicopter | AH-1F | 24 | |||
| Hughes OH-6 Cayuse |
United States
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Light reconnaissance and attack helicopter | MD500 MD530 |
12 | 18th | ||
| Aérospatiale AS 332 |
 France
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Medium-weight transport helicopter | 10 | ||||
| Eurocopter AS 350 |
France
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Multipurpose helicopter | 7th | ||||
| Eurocopter EC 635 |
 European Union
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Military multipurpose helicopter | 9 | ||||
| Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk |
United States
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Transport helicopter | S-70 UH-60L |
8th | |||
| Bell UH-1 |
United States
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Light multipurpose helicopter | UH-1H | 37 | |||
F-5E Tiger II
F-16A / B Fighting Falcon
C-101 Aviojet
C-130H Hercules
AH-1 Cobra
UH-60 Black Hawk
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literature
- Royal Jordanian Air Force. (Cover story) In: Airforces Monthly , July 2020, pp. 80–84
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commanders on the RJAF website
- ↑ Eric Katerberg / Anno Gravemaker: Silah el Jaw Ilmalaki el Urduni - Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) . In: Flieger Revue Extra No. 15. Möller, Berlin 2006. ISSN 0941-889X . P. 100.
- ↑ a b Kenneth Pollack: Arabs at War, Lincoln , 2004; P. 267ff
- ↑ Kamal Salibi: The Modern History of Jordan , 2nd edition, London, 1998, pp. 207f
- ^ Royal Jordanian Air Force Bases
- ↑ World Air Forces 2014. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: Flightglobal Insight. 2014, archived from the original on December 25, 2013 ; accessed on March 26, 2014 (English).