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The Myanmar Air Force (MAF) was formed as the Burmese Air Force on 16 January 1947, while Burma (as Myanmar was known until 1989) was still under British rule. By 1948, the fleet of the new air force included 40 Airspeed Oxfords, 16 de Havilland Tiger Moths, four Austers, and three Supermarine Spitfires transferred from the Royal Air Force, and ...
Nampong Air Force Base. / 25.3525667°N 97.2948833°E / 25.3525667; 97.2948833. Nampong Air Force Base ( ICAO: VYNP) is a Myanmar Air Force base in Myitkyina, Myanmar (Burma). Formerly known as Myikyina West, it is located several miles to the west of Myitkyina. It is in current military use and home to a fighter squadron and an attack ...
Irrawaddy Regional Command (headquarters in Yangon) Thanhklyet Soon Naval Base. Thanlyin Naval Base. Thanlyin Naval Base. Thilawa Naval Base. Coco Island Base (including Naval Radar Unit) Danyawaddy Regional Command (headquarters in Sittwe ) Kyaukpyu Naval Base. Thandwe (Sandoway) Naval Base.
The latest wave of attacks, including the burning of a Rohingya town by the Arakan Army in May, is the biggest surge in violence against the Rohingya since a 2017 Myanmar military-led campaign ...
Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village in a western region have killed at least 11 civilians, including eight children, a leading opposition group and residents of the area said Friday.
Almost three years since the military seized power in a coup, ending a brief stretch of semi-democratic rule in the former British colony and plunging Myanmar once again into civil war, the fight ...
According to Amnesty International photo and video analysis, as well as interviews with witnesses, indicated the Myanmar air force had dropped bombs on three locations near the St Peter Baptist Church in Sagaing's Kanan village on 7 January 2024, killed 17 villagers, including nine children, while at least 20 people were injured.
The Kuomintang in Burma or Kuomintang in the Golden Triangle (Burmese: ကူမင်တန်မှမြန်မာနိုင်ငံအားကျူးကျော်မှု) were Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist) troops that fled from China to Burma in 1950 after their defeat by the Chinese communists in the Chinese Civil War. [ 1 ...