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Operation Crossbow Part I

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Interdiction and Crossbow On Sunday morning, June 18, 1944, Clementine Churchill, the prime minister’s wife, visited London’s Hyde Park to see her daughter Mary, who was a young officer serving with the local anti-aircraft battery. It had been a busy week on the home front. Almost two weeks prior, the invasion force had departed British ports and landed on the…

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Israeli Skyhawks

An A-4H of No. 102 ‘Flying Tigers’ Squadron, upgraded with most of the features of the A-4N. Israel (Israel Air Force/Defence Force) Israel is and has been the largest A-4 operator outside the US. Up to 1976, the Israel Defence Force/Air Force (IDF/AF) is believed to have acquired 321 new…

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McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

A Harrier II+ ‘radar bird’ of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 542, ‘Flying Tigers’ based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, in the mid-1990s.   An AV-8B Night Attack jet of VMA-214 ‘Black Sheep’ as it appeared in 1989. Working up during the 1991 Gulf War, the unit…

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RAF in Malaya – The Enemy and Allied Forces I

The Royal Air Force (RAF) and Army Air Corps, based in Malaya, provided multi-role air support to emergency operations. This was either as an independent force of the operation, or in direct cooperation with forces on the ground. There were six facets to the availability of air support: 1.Photographic air…

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The Austro-Hungarian Glider Boat

The KuK Versuchsgleitboot or “glider boat” was a mix between a WiG (Wing in Ground Effect) and hovercraft back in 1916. One of the earliest military examples of such vehicle was the very innovative Austro-Hungarian Versuchsgleitboot, an attempt to devise a “gliding boat”. It was not really a hovercraft since…

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U.S. Air Force – Skyborg Weapons

SKYBORG An Air Force concept of a future Skyborg system depicts an unmanned aircraft firing an AIM-120 missile from an internal weapons bay, signaling an air-to-air role. The next combat aircraft to enter the U.S. Air Force inventory will not be a manned sixth-generation fighter or even the Northrop Grumman…

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Yakovlev Yak 3 Fighter

Design began at the end of 1941 of an all new single seat fighter using the new VK-107 engine, requiring the least possible drag, smallest dimensions and weight consistent with a manoeuvrable and tough machine. Due to delays with the VK-107 engine and pressure to build the maximum number of…

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Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9 Dora

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

American Medium Bombers of WWII Part I

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Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks

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

Post-war Spitfire XIV

The final Spitfire variant, the Mk 24, was similar to the Mk 22 except that…