Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces (Uzbekistan)

The Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is the administrative head in the Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces, and is under the Chief of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defence. The current Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is Major General Akhmad Burkhanov. The Commander of the Air and Air Defence Forces is a de facto Deputy Minister of Defence.

Commander of Air and Air Defence Forces
Flag of the Air and Air Defence Forces
Incumbent Major General Akhmad Burkhanov since 2018
Ministry of Defence
Reports to	Chief of the General Staff
Seat	Tashkent
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Uzbekistan

List of commanders

No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office		Ref.	Notes
			Took office	Left office
		Major General Tohir Yusupov	1992
		Major General Abdulla Xolmuhamedov	2003	2008	[1][2]	In 1975, he graduated from Syzran Higher Military Aviation School[3] and began serving in Transcaucasian Military District as a pilot. In the early 80s, he participated in hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He graduated from Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1987. That same year, he was deployed to the Mongolian People's Republic as part of a contingent from the Transbaikal Military District. In 1990, he became the Deputy Commander of a regiment of the Far Eastern Military District. He became commander of the military transport aviation regiment (Tuzel) shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1997, he was appointed a commander of a military transport aviation base. Upon the turn of the 21st century in the year 2000, he was appointed the air force's head of the flight training, becoming an inspector-adviser a year later. In 2002, he was promoted to the post of deputy commander and in 2003 became the commander of the air defense and air forces. In 2008, he became head of the flight safety department of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan. In 2009, he retired from military service.[4] He is a recipient of the Shon-Sharaf Order.[5]
		Major General Akhmad Burkhanov	2018	Incumbent	[6]