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The aircraft was designed by Nikolai Polikarpov to replace the U-1 trainer (a copy of the British Avro 504), which was known as Avrushka to the Soviets. [6]The prototype of the U-2, powered by a 74 kW (99 hp) Shvetsov M-11 air-cooled five-cylinder radial engine, first flew on 7 January 1928 piloted by M.M. Gromov. [6]
2 April 1950 – A RoCAF North American P-51 Mustang was shot down by Soviet aircraft near Shanghai, killing the pilot. [1] 29 July 1950 – A RoCAF P-47N Thunderbolt was shot down by anti-air fire from Xiamen, killing its pilot. [1] 16 June 1953 – A RoCAF P-47N Thunderbolt was shot down by anti-aircraft fire from Dongshan Island, killing its ...
The Polikarpov P-2 was a 1920s Soviet two-seat intermediate training biplane. [1] It was a single-bay biplane powered by a 300 hp (224 kW) M-6 water-cooled V-8 engine (Hispano-Suiza 8Fb) with a retractable radiator. [1] The prototype first flew in 1927 and entered production with an order for 55 for use as an intermediate trainer. [1]
A newly released image showing the UFO that was shot down by a US fighter jet over Canada in 2023 has added more questions and uncertainty to the object floating over the Yukon.. The grainy ...
Ukraine has developed a laser weapon capable of shooting down targets from more than a mile away, ... we can already shoot down aircraft with this laser at an altitude of over 2 kilometers (1.2 ...
The first air-to-air victory was recorded on the night of 2 November 1952 by a USMC F3D-2 piloted by Major William T. Stratton Jr., and his radar operator, Master Sergeant Hans C. Hoglind of VMF(N)-513 Flying Nightmares, [31] Major Stratton shot down what he believed was a Yakovlev Yak-15 (even though no Yak-15s were reported in Korea) [5 ...
Very simply because we had shot down four Soviet planes that were flown by Soviet pilots. In 1972 the Egyptian press disclosed that 5 Soviet aircraft had in fact been lost on July 30, 1970. [ 34 ] This was later also confirmed by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt during his visit to Israel prior to the signing of the Camp David Accords .
In a dramatic new video, a Ukrainian MiG 29 fighter jet attempts to shoot down a Russian suicide drone, but instead, crashes in west-central Ukraine. What's more, Iran is not just selling its ...