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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 Union's First Jet Bomber: The Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle'
In 1962, the Soviet Union began delivering not only ballistic ... By 1960 the Egyptians had added more Il-28s to the EAF (Egyptian Air Force), now having sixty of the bombers.
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The Soviet Fighter That Swarmed the Skies in WW2
According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ... the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an ...
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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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High-flying U-2 'Dragon Lady' spy planes and other recon aircraft are doing border security as Trump cracks down
Made by Lockheed Corporation, it was introduced in the mid-1950s and has been operated by the Air Force and CIA since then. During the Cold War, it flew over the Soviet Union and other communist ...
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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 ...