Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Squadrons are groupings of aircraft, naval vesselss or armoured fighting vehicless. An air force squadron typically consists of three or four flightss. An armoured squadron typically consists of four or five troops. A naval squadron is a more ad hoc grouping. The only requirement for a grouping of ships to be a squadron, is that at least two must be capital ships (battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers, or aircraft carriers). World War II Squadrons in WWII: Imperial Army of Japan Three Japanese air squadrons were assigned to each air regiment. See also: military science military unit This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.