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“Halibag”

Air Warfare Aircraft British France 24 Min Read

Art by RafaĹ‚ Zalewski A specialised radio countermeasures squadron, No 462 RAAF, was part of 100 Group and flew Halifax B. IIIs from December 1944. The prominent masts indicate Z5-N MZ913 carries the high-powered Airborne Cigar radio jamming equipment. Late war colours on a Halifax B. VI RG610 of No 102 Sqn based at Pocklington, Yorks. It was sold for…

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Falklands Sea Kings

Westland, Mitsubishi, and Agusta manufactured over 400 versions of the H-3 under license. Westland installed a pair of Rolls Royce Gnome H. 1400 turboshafts and a Louis Newmark Mk 31 automatic flight control system in the British Sea Kings. The RN initially ordered fifty-six HAS1 Sea Kings, with 700(S) Squadron…

Air Warfare Aircraft Doctrine 19 Min Read

BOMB OR ICBM

The problem was that Curtis LeMay had become an altered man. The young colonel who had been so open-minded and keen to learn that he had risked personal humiliation by convening all-ranks, freewheeling criticism sessions in the mess hall after a raid on Nazi-occupied Europe had become the four-star general…

Aircraft Italy 7 Min Read

Savoia-Marchetti SM.79

Even if SM.79s were considered overall to be quite sturdy and well-developed aircraft, they had their share of misfortune. In Spain, SM.79 MM.28-16 (with a total crew of 17) was destroyed in the air on 12 April 1938, when one of its bombs detonated in the bomb bay. MM.28-25 (again…

Air Warfare Aircraft Naval History 12 Min Read

RAF COASTAL COMMAND LAND-BASED AIR PATROL I

The RAF had established a Coastal Command to support the Royal Navy. Its primary mission was to provide the Navy reconnaissance on German capital ship movements in the North Sea and elsewhere. Although land-based aircraft had positively sunk only one U-boat in all of World War I, it was believed…

Aircraft Germany 5 Min Read

REIMAHG

Saukel’s project. An aerial photograph of the REIMAHG bombproof factory near Kahla, 26 December 1944. The photograph was included in the target sheet file of this factory. Allied interpreters marked the workshops and tunnel entrance area. Visible at the top is the landing strip constructed on top of the complex…

Aircraft Soviet 8 Min Read

Yakovlev Yak 15

Russia’s first Jet fighter The closing stages of the Second I World War saw as radical a change in fighter development as that brought about a decade earlier by the appearance of the first fighter monoplanes with retractable undercarriages; the turbojet began to supplant the piston engine for fighter propulsion.…

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