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Jane's Fighting Ships has noted in one of its 1999-2000 editions that some ships have little capability, but remain flying an ensign so that crews are entitled to be paid. [ 1 ] Jane's Fighting Ships online edition, dated 8 March 2010, added "There are large numbers of most classes 'in reserve', and flying an ensign so that skeleton crews may ...
The most famous of her long-distance records was the flight of the Rodina (Russian for "Motherland"), Ant-37 – a converted DB-2 long range bomber – on 24–25 September 1938. She was the navigator of the crew that also included Polina Osipenko and Valentina Grizodubova .
The Vishnya class (NATO reporting name) (also known as the Meridian class), [2] Soviet designation Project 864, [2] are a group of intelligence collection ships built for the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. The ships continue in service with the Russian Navy. [3] The Russian Navy operates seven of these ships. [2]
Two B-52 Stratofortress bombers of the United States were intercepted by two Russian SU-27 fighter jets near Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad on Monday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment: Lieutenant 23 February 1945 * Killed in action on 25 August 1944 after shot down by German fighter. [6] Tatyana Makarova Татьяна Макарова 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment: Lieutenant 23 February 1945 * Killed in action on 25 August 1944 after shot down by German fighter. [6] Marina Chechneva
On that day, two U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets were sent to intercept two Russian Tu-95 bombers and the two Su-35 fighter jets that were escorting them. — North American Aerospace Defense ...
Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept two Russian long-range maritime patrol bombers that were travelling north of the Shetland Islands in Scotland in the early hours of Monday.
Russian air attacks in Syria started on 30 September, in the Homs region. [104] On 1 October, the Su-34 was used to bomb Islamic State targets in Syria. [citation needed] The Russian Aerospace Forces Su-34 fighter-bombers destroyed an Islamic State command center and training camp south-west of the city of Raqqa.