Fokker F27 Friendship | |
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Role | Airliner |
| First flight | 24 November 1955 |
| Built | 586 |
The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It has the distinction of being the most numerous post-war aircraft to have been manufactured in the Netherlands; the F27 was also one of the most successful European airliners of its era.
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Harbin Z-6 | |
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| Country | People’s Republic of China |
| Role | Helicopter |
| First flight | 15 December 1969 |
| Built | 11 |
The Harbin/CHDRI Z-6, (Z – Zhishengji – vertical take-off aircraft), is a Chinese helicopter development based on the Harbin Z-5, itself a licence-built / reverse engineered Mil Mi-4. A limited production run was terminated after performance was found to be inferior to its Z-5 progenitor
Source: Harbin Z-6 on Wikipedia
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USS Requin SS-481 | |
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| Country | USA |
| Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Launched | 1 January 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 2 December 1968 |
USS Requin (SS/SSR/AGSS/IXSS-481), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her keel was laid down on 24 August 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 1 January 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Slade D. Cutter, and commissioned on 28 April 1945 with Commander Slade D. Cutter in command.
Source: USS Requin on Wikipedia
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USS Little Rock | |
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| Country | USA |
| Class and type | Cleveland-class Light cruiser |
| Launched | 27 August 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 22 November 1976 |
USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) was one of 27 United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II, and one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers. She was the first US Navy ship to be named for Little Rock, Arkansas. Commissioned in mid-1945, she was completed too late to see combat duty during World War II. After an initial South American cruise, she spent the next few years serving off the east coast of the U.S., in the Caribbean, and in the Mediterranean. Like all but one of her sister ships, she was retired in the post-war defense cutbacks, becoming part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in 1949.
Source: USS Little Rock on Wikipedia
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BM-21 Grad | |
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| Country | Soviet Union |
| Role | Multiple rocket launcher |
| In service | 1963–present |
| Built | 2000 |
The BM-21 “Grad” (Russian: БМ-21 “Град”, lit. ‘hail’) is a Soviet truck-mounted 122 mm multiple rocket launcher. The weapons system and the M-21OF rocket which it fires evolved in the early 1960s and saw their first combat use in March 1969 during the Sino-Soviet border conflict. BM stands for boyevaya mashina (Russian: боевая машина – combat vehicle), and the nickname grad means “hail”. The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated as the M-21 field-rocket system
Source: BM-21 Grad on Wikipedia
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Boeing 80 | |
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| Country | USA |
| Role | Airliner |
| First flight | July 27, 1928 |
| Built | 16 |
The Boeing 80 was an American airliner of the 1920s. A three-engined biplane, the Model 80 was built by the Boeing Airplane Company for Boeing’s own airline, Boeing Air Transport, successfully carrying both airmail and passengers on scheduled services.
Source: Boeing 80 on Wikipedia
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Vickers VC10 | |
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| Country | UK |
| Role | Narrow-body jet airliner & aerial refueling tanker |
| First flight | 9 June 1962 |
| Built | 54 |
The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at Brooklands, Surrey, in 1962. The airliner was designed to operate on long-distance routes from the shorter runways of the era and commanded excellent hot and high performance for operations from African airports.
Source: Vickers VC10 on Wikipedia
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Assault Amphibious Vehicle | |
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| Country | USA |
| Role | Amphibious armored personnel carrier |
| In service | 1972–present |
| Built | Unknow |
The Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV)—official designation AAVP-7A1 (formerly known as Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel-7 abbr. LVTP-7)—is a fully tracked amphibious landing vehicle manufactured by U.S. Combat Systems (previously by United Defense, a former division of FMC Corporation). The AAV-P7/A1 is the current amphibious troop transport of the United States Marine Corps. It is used by U.S. Marine Corps Assault Amphibian Battalions to land the surface assault elements of the landing force and their equipment in a single lift from assault shipping during amphibious operations to inland objectives and to conduct mechanized operations and related combat support in subsequent mechanized operations ashore. It is also operated by other forces. Marines call them “amtracs”, a shortening of their original designation, “amphibious tractor”.
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Saunders-Roe Skeeter | |
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| Country | UK |
| Role | Trainer, Scout |
| First fly | 10 October 1948 |
| Built | Unknow |
The Saunders-Roe Skeeter was a two-seat training and scout helicopter that was developed and produced by British manufacturer Saunders-Roe (“Saro”) of Cowes and Southampton, in the United Kingdom. Work on what would become the Skeeter had been commenced by the Cierva Autogiro Company as the Cierva W.14. Following Saunders-Roe’s take over of Cierva, it was decided to continue its projects, including the Skeeter. Despite an initial preference for the rival Fairey Ultra-light Helicopter, which had already been ordered, there was a reversal of fortune when interest from the Bundeswehr in the potential procurement of a large number of Skeeters. This led to the British order for the Ultra-light Helicopter being cancelled and the Skeeter effectively taking its place, which also served to guarantee an export order from Germany.
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Nieuport 27 | |
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| Country | France |
| Role | Fighter / advanced trainer |
| First fly | 1917 |
| Built | 1000+ |
The Nieuport 27 (or Nieuport XXVII C.1 in contemporary sources) was a World War I French sesquiplane fighter aircraft designed by Gustave Delage. The 27 was the last of the line of Nieuport “V-strut” single seat fighters that began with the Nieuport 10 of 1914. Operational examples supplemented the very similar Nieuport 24 and 24bis in operational squadrons in late 1917 and many would also be used as advanced trainers.
Source: Nieuport 27 on Wikipedia
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