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“The Night Witches”: The Soviet Air Force’s Deadliest Female Bomber Pilots
To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...
Why Was The USAAF P-39 Airacobra Not Sent To Europe During WW2?
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced by US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell Aircraft for the United ...
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The Soviet Polikarpov I-15 Chaika fighter explained by one of its Spanish pilots
The testimony of a CASA 2111 Pedro pilot, the last bomber manufactured in Spain The T-6 Texan, an old glory of aviation ...
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U.S. Air Force B-52 Bombers Just Flew Right to Russia's Doorstep
ceded from Germany to the Soviet Union post-WWII, also has a contentious history due to the Soviet-ordered Katyn massacre. A pair of United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers deployed to ...
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Russia sanctions stall Ghana’s Air Force fleet upgrade
Plans by the Air Force to upgrade its fleet of Soviet aircraft have encountered obstacles due to international sanctions ...
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Why F-16s Could Be a Game Changer for Ukraine
A former Air Force brigadier general and a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman described what it would take to get Ukrainian pilots battle-ready. Photo illustration: Jeremy Shuback/WSJ ...
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Post-Soviet security bloc to hold joint air force drills
MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. The Collective Security Treaty Organization, a post-Soviet security bloc, will hold exercises of joint air forces in October-November 2018, Chief of the Allied Staff of ...
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Attempt to retain power as Soviet leader by force would have sparked conflict - Gorbachev
Attempts to use force to stay in power would have triggered an acute civil conflict with unpredictable consequences, he believes. "Those were dark days for the Soviet Union and for Russia.