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USAF TESTS HYPERSONIC WEAPON
B-52H serial 60-0036 operated by the 412th Test Wing’s 419th Flight Test Squadron conducts a captive carry test with a prototype of the hypersonic AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) on June 12. B-52H CARRIAGE TESTS UNDER WAY AT EDWARDS AFB The USAF conducted the first flight test of its hypersonic AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) at…
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Air Support – Kursk
The campaign against the Soviet Union in 1941 began in the same manner, in what had now become standard Luftwaffe doctrine. The Russian Air Force was attacked with great effect, which resulted in the destruction of over 1200 Soviet aircraft by noon of the first day. Support was then shifted…
Sukhoi Su-11 (1947)
Since the Su-9 was first proposed as a TR-1- powered fighter, things had come full circle. The airframe and guns were unchanged from the Su-9, only the Su-11 ‘s engine nacelles and position on the wing had been altered to any visible degree. The Su-11 (also known as ‘Izdeliye LK’…
Tornado GR.1A in the Gulf War
The Tornado multirole aircraft is operational in five different forms: Tornado GR 1 interdictor strike aircraft for close air support; counter air attack and defence suppression; GR 1A tactical reconnaissance aircraft; Tornado GR 1B long-range maritime attack aircraft and Tornado F3 long-range air defence fighter. The GR 4 is a…
Henschel Hs 129 Tank Buster!
Henschel was one of four companies (the others being Focke-Wulf, Gotha and Hamburger Flugzeugbau) to which, in April 1937, the Technische Amt of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) issued a specification for a twin-engine ground-attack aircraft. It was required to carry at least two 20 mm MG FP cannon and to have…
Corsairs in Korea I
Jesse Folmar, in his F4U-4B, shooting down a MiG-15 jet fighter. During the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War . . . hit by anti-aircraft fire while supporting the Marines, Ens. Jesse Brown, the Navy’s first African-American aviator, crashed behind enemy lines. His squadron mates from VF-32…
Corsairs in Korea II
The last F4U-5, a night fighter, was delivered in October 1951, but a special Corsair was not far behind. Originally the -6, it was redesignated the AU-1. Strictly a ground attack aircraft (A for attack), it incorporated the lessons of Korean combat. Some 110 were delivered from February to October…