Royal Thai Air Force
The Royal Thai Air Force is the air force of the Kingdom of Thailand. Since its establishment in 1913 as one of the earliest air forces of Asia, the... Wikipedia
- Founded: November 02, 1913
- Type: Air force
- Role: Aerial warfare, Anti-aircraft warfare
- Size: 46,000 active personnel, 469 Aircraft
- Part of: Royal Thai Armed Forces
- Headquarters: Don Muang Air Base, Bangkok
- Nickname(s): "ทอ." "Thor Or" Abbreviation of Air Force, "ทัพฟ้า" "Thap Fah" Sky Army
- Motto(s): น่านฟ้าไทย จะมิให้ใครมาย่ำยี, "The Thai airspace, none shall ever invade"
- March: "Royal Thai Air Force March"
- Anniversaries: 9 April 1937, (Royal Thai Air Force Day)
- Engagements: World War I, European theatre, Western Front, Hundred Days Offensive, Meuse–Argonne offensive, Interwar period, Boworadet Rebellion, World War II, Franco-Thai War, Pacific War, Japanese invasion of Thailand, Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan, Malayan campaign, Burma campaign, Japanese invasion of Burma, Burma campaign (1942–1943), Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan, Burma campaign (1944), Burma campaign (1944–1945), South-East Asian Theatre, Bombing of Bangkok, Cold War, Cold War in Asia, Decolonisation of Asia, Korean War, Malayan Emergency, Indochina Wars, Vietnam War, Laotian Civil War, Cambodian Civil War, Communist insurgency in Thailand, Communist insurgency in Malaysia, Third Indochina War, Cambodian conflict (1979–1998), Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Vietnamese border raids in Thailand, Thai–Laotian Border War, Persian Gulf War, 1999 East Timorese crisis, International Force East Timor, War on drugs, Internal conflict in Myanmar, Operation Border Post 9631, 2010–2012 Myanmar border clashes, Global War on Terrorism, Operation Enduring Freedom, Iraq War, OEF – Afghanistan, OEF – Horn of Africa, 2003 Phnom Penh riots, Operation Pochentong, Southern Insurgency, Cambodian–Thai border dispute, United Nations peacekeeping, UNIKOM, ONUB, UNTAET, UNAMID, UNAMA, UNMIS, FCU UNTAC, Battle of Marawi, 2023 Sudan conflict, Battle of Khartoum (2023), Evacuation from Sudan (2023)
- Website: rtaf.mi.th
- Commander-in-Chief: Air Chief Marshal Punpakdee Pattanakul
- Electronic, warfare: Saab 340 AEW&C
- Fighter: JAS-39C/D, F-16, F-5, Alpha Jet
- Helicopter: S-70i, Bell 412, S-92, EC725
- Reconnaissance: Saab 340B, DA42 MPP, P.180 Avanti
- Trainer: CT/4, T-41D, PC-9, DA42, T-50TH, T-6TH
- Transport: C-130, BT-67, ATR-72, Boeing 737, A320, A340, SSJ-100-95LR
- Data source: DuckDuckGo
