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Warsaw Airlift II

Air Warfare Aircraft Poland 29 Min Read

‘Warsaw Return’ David Stiling (AGAvA) Commission of a Halifax of 1586 Squadron based in Brindisi, Italy in August 1944. No. 1586 (Polish Special Duties) Flight was first formed at RAF Derna, in Libya on 4 November 1943, equipped with a mix of Consolidated Liberator lll and Handley Page Halifax II/S special duties aircraft. After many months of flying support missions…

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Airborne Operations in Vietnam

The Quintessential ‘Huey’ The term “airborne” has traditionally referred to combat troops who are transported by aircraft and parachuted into battle or, as in certain instances in World War II, landed by glider. The term also refers to a much broader class of actions. In this sense, this article defines…

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LEVKOV’S HOVERCRAFT

The first ever air-cushion vehicle L-1 before trials, the Pleshcheyevo Lake, Russia, October 1935. Pilot house cross-section of the L-9 fast attack craft, 1939.   Performance trials of the L-5 fast attack craft, the Gulf of Finland, 1937. Assault hovercraft proposed by V. Levkov in 1935. The British engineer, Christopher…

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Nighthawk, Nieuport British fighter biplane

The Nightjar was a British carrier based fighter aircraft of the early 1920s. It was a modification of the earlier Nieuport Nighthawk fighter produced by Gloster after the Nieuport & General Company, who designed the Nighthawk closed down. 22 were converted, serving with the British Royal Air Force from 1922…

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F-4E “Kurnass” (Sledgehammer*) I

Unit: 105 tajeset “The Scorpion Squadron”, IDF/AF Serial: 211 The 105 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force, also known as The Scorpion, was founded in December 1950 as a Spitfire squadron and has since operated the P-51 Mustang, Dassault Super Mystere, IAI Sa’ar, and F-4 Phantom II. It currently operates…

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F-4E “Kurnass” (Sledgehammer) II

On July 18th 1970 the IAF resumed its missile suppression strikes, this time with new ECM pods supplied by the USA. American experts had suggested a new method of countering the SAMs, high altitude tight formations that would form an electronic barrier against the missiles. This tactic however, was completely…

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Absolute Uncompromised, Unmatched Air Superiority

F-22 Raptor Airshow Demo at Langley AFB, VA F-22 Raptor with easy targets! Please note the artist of F-22 Intercept, K. Chandler has had to put the F-22s near the Sukhois for artistic license, in the real situation the Sukhois would be long destroyed before the Raptors got this close.…

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Arguably, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 evolved into wartime Germany’s most effective fighter, offering the Luftwaffe…

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