Long Range Aviation (Russian: Дальняя Авиация, Dalnyaya Aviatsiya, or ДА, DA) was the branch of the Soviet Air Forces tasked with long-range bombardment of strategic targets with nuclear weapons. During the Cold War, it was the counterpart to the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force.
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Famous quotes containing the words long and/or range:
“As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)