Aircraft
Douglas C-47 Skytrain (1935)
C-47A serial FAC-681 of the Colombian Air Force is seen as it appeared in the 1980s. A former RAF machine, it was later converted as an AC-47 gunship. In 2014 six AC-47T Fantasma gunships remained in Colombian Air Force service. Wearing D-Day recognition stripes, C-47A Buzz Buggy of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron, 436th Troop Carrier Group was based at…
Most Recent
Modern Strategic Bombers
A strategic bomber is a mid-to-long range heavy bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of ordnance onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy’s capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers and ground attack aircraft, which are used in air interdiction operations to attack troops and…
Sukhoi Su-57 Felon
The Sukhoi Su-57 `Felon’ was originally conceived in an effort to compete against Lockheed Martin’s F-22 and F-35. Initially known as the PAK-FA, its development has progressed at a relatively slow pace – but has it matured as a force to be reckoned with? The Su-57 is also known as…
Junkers Herkules
The Ju 352 was used by I./KG 200 to drop agents and fly other special missions, and to the Grossraum-Transportgruppe, based at Tutow. The Ju 352’s most dramatic mission came on the night of 26/27 April 1945, when one became the last aircraft to land at Gatow with reinforcements, before…
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger
The sole XPBB-1, known unofficially as the ” Lone Ranger,” seen right after touchdown. Due to the priority of the B-29 program , plans to mass-produce the PBB-1 were cancelled . The U.S. Navy Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger patrol bomber (BuNo 3144) in flight circa in the summer of 1943.…
Sukhoi T-4 Sokta
As with most significant military developments during the Cold War, the XB-70A was Matched by a Soviet counterpart. In this case it was the Sukhoi T-4 (also called Project 100). This titanium and stainless steel aircraft was powered by four 35,274-lbf Kolesov RD36-41 turbojet engines and was designed to reach…
Defiant Vs. Valor
By Eric Tegler In 2022 the Army will choose a new aircraft to replace its Reagan-era UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Two contenders from Sikorsky-Boeing and Bell will battle it out to become the winner of the Service’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program and the Army’s next combat helo when…