Air Warfare

Strategic Air Power In The Cold War

Air Warfare Aircraft 13 Min Read

A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear parting the clouds. Manned aircraft offered certain unique advantages. First, they possessed inherent flexibility, in that they could be launched on receipt of strategic warning and then be held in the air, diverted to airfields outside the threatened area, or recalled to base. The fact that men were aboard and in control meant that targets…

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US Navy Carrier Aircraft I

During the 1950s the US Navy had introduced no fewer than five advanced swept wing fighters and by 1960 the first of the supersonic Mach 2 world record beating McDonnell F4H Phantoms were being delivered. Indeed, they had even experimented with vertical take-off fighters and a transonic seaplane jet fighter.…

Air Warfare Naval 26 Min Read

US Navy Carrier Aircraft II

The US Navy could not be accused of being unwilling to try out new concepts. Even before the Skyray development was initiated, it had commissioned the construction of three prototype fighters from Chance Vought in June 1946. These were again based on German work and the result was a revolutionary…

Air Warfare Aircraft Wars 25 Min Read

KATANGESE AIR FORCE

Force Aérienne Katangaise Air Power in UN Operations The second phase the fight for Katanga commenced with Security Council authorization to take “all appropriate measures” to prevent the occurrence of civil war in the Congo, including “the use of force, if necessary, in the last resort”.  This resolution was used…

Air Warfare Naval History Wars 38 Min Read

Operation Brazil and Lone Wolf U-507 1942

B-25B “Lero-Lero” Unit: Agrupamento de Aviхes de Adaptatio (Adaptation Airplane Group), Forca Aerea Brasileira Serial: 10 (FAB-2310, US 40-2310) Circa 1942. This is one of the first B-25’s of FAB. FAB B-25’s arrived at Salvador in 1942 and then located at BANT, BAF and BAS (BAF – Base Aerea de…

Air Warfare British Germany Naval History 23 Min Read

The Scourge of the Atlantic I

Fw 200, “SG+KS” of I.Gruppe/KG 40. Seated facing each other in the high-backed walnut chairs of the Air Council Room in King Charles Street were the top brass of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. The man who had called the conference was Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles…

Air Warfare British Germany Naval History 23 Min Read

The Scourge of the Atlantic II

Test launch of a Hurricane at Greenock, Scotland, 31 May 1941 While the air marshals continued to pursue the idea of the expendable fighter with optimism – ‘Bert’ Harris, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, and Wilfred Freeman, Vice-Chief, among them – the admirals on the whole were not enthusiastic.…

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Flak towers: then and now

The construction of Flaktürme (Flak towers) in major cities began in response to the first…

American Medium Bombers of WWII Part I

Douglas A-20 Havoc Douglas Aircraft developed the Model 7B twin-engine light attack bomber in the…

SOVIET FIGHTER ACES IN KOREA

Russian MiG-15 Aces in Korea, from left to right: Aleksandr P. Smorchkov (8 kills), Nikolai…

Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks

Final Encounter (Spitfire v Messerchmitt) by Michael Turner. Wing Commander J E Johnnie Johnson, Spitfire…