Other Air Forces
The rank of air commodore is also used in a number of the air forces in the Commonwealth, including the Bangladesh Air Force, Ghana Air Force, Indian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force and Sri Lanka Air Force. It is also used in the Egyptian Air Force, Hellenic Air Force, Royal Air Force of Oman, the Royal Thai Air Force and the Air Force of Zimbabwe.
In the Indonesian Air Force the equivalent rank is marsekal pertama (literally "first marshal") which is usually translated as air commodore in English. The Hellenic Air Force uses the rank of taxiarchos tis aeroporias (literally meaning he who orders the air force or less literally as air force brigadier) which is normally rendered as air commodore in English and was introduced in the early 1940s when the Greek armed forces were reconstituted along British lines while in exile in the Middle East.
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An RAAF air commodore's sleeve/shoulder insignia
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A Hellenic Air Force taxiarchos (air commodore's) rank insignia
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An Indian Air Force air commodore's rank insignia
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A PAF air commodore's rank insignia.
The Royal Canadian Air Force used the rank until the unification of the Canadian Forces in 1968, when army-type rank titles were adopted. An air commodore then became a brigadier-general (following the U.S. title, rather than the British brigadier, which had been held by equivalent officers in the former Canadian Army). In official French Canadian usage, the rank title was commodore de l'air. The position of honorary air commodore still exists in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force's equivalent rank is commodore which has essentially the same rank insignia. The Chilean Air Force equivalent rank is comodoro which has same rank insignia on the sleeve.
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A Royal Netherlands Air Force commodore's sleeve/shoulder insignia
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A Chilean Air Force comodoro rank insignia
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