The Abkhazian Air Force is a small air force operating from the Georgian breakaway state of Abkhazia. Few details are available on its formation, but it is reported to have been established by Viyacheslav Eshba based upon several Yak-52 trainer aircraft armed with machine guns.Slavic & East European Collections at UC Berkeley (June 1998). http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/slavic/pdfs/army698.pdf. Army & Society in Georgia: Military Chronicle – Miscellany.