Boulton Paul Defiant I.

Boulton Paul Defiant

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VlogoBorec z dvema sedežema, nočni borec, trener
Prvi let11. avgust 1937
Zgrajena1064

V Boulton Paul Defiant was a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a “turret fighter”, without any forward-firing guns, a concept successfully used in the First World War-era Bristol F.2 Fighter and also implemented by the Royal Navy’s Blackburn Roc. In combat, the Defiant was found to be reasonably effective at its intended task of destroying bombers but was vulnerable to the Luftwaffe’s more manoeuvrable, single-seat Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. The lack of forward-firing armament proved to be a great weakness in daylight combat and its potential was realised only when it was converted to night fighting. It was supplanted in the night fighter role by the Bristol Beaufighter and de Havilland Mosquito. The Defiant found use in gunnery training, target towing, electronic countermeasures and air-sea rescue. Among RAF pilots it had the nickname “Daffy”.

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Hawker Nimrod MK.II

Hawker Nimrod

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VlogoMornariški borec
Prvi let14. oktober 1931
Zgrajena92

V Hawker Nimrod was a British carrier-based single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter aircraft built in the early 1930s by Hawker Aircraft. The Nimrod had an overall similarity to the Fury: it was a single-seater biplane with an open cockpit, fixed undercarriage and guns firing through the propeller. Its unswept, constant chord, round-tipped wings had an unequal span and strong stagger, the latter partly to enhance the pilot’s view. It was a single bay biplane braced with outward-leaning N-form interplane struts, with the upper plane held a little above the upper fuselage by cabane struts. The fabric-covered wings had metal spars and spruce ribs and carried balanced ailerons only on the upper wings.

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Ford M151 Mutt

M151 1/4-tonski 4×4-tonski tovornjak

DržaviZda
Vlogo1/4 tone tovornjak/prevoz osebja, štirikolesni pogon
Izdelek1959–1982
Zgrajena100000+

tovornjak, uporabnost, 1/4 tone, 4×4, M151 (M151) je bil naslednik lahkih terenskih vozil M38 in M38A1 iz korejske vojne. Običajno imenovan "džip" ali "četrt tone", je bil proizveden od leta 1959 do leta 1982 in je služil v vietnamski vojni. M151 je imel monokok zasnovo, zaradi česar je bil prostornejši od prejšnjih modelov džipov in je vključeval neodvisno vzmetenje z vzmetmi. Od takrat ga je nadomestil večji AM General HMMWV v večini uporabnih vlog v prvi vrsti. Z nekaterimi enotami M151A2, ki so bile leta 1999 še vedno v ameriški vojaški službi, je serija M151 dosegla daljšo uporabo kot serije WW2 MB / GPW, M38 in M38A1 skupaj.

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Heinkel He 219

Heinkel He 219

DržaviNacistična Nemčija
VlogoNočni borec
Prvi let6. novembra 1942
Zgrajena300

V Heinkel He 219 Uhu ("Orel-sova") je bil nočni lovec, ki je služil z nemško Luftwaffe v poznejših fazah druge svetovne vojne. Razmeroma prefinjen dizajn, He 219 je imel različne inovacije, vključno z naprednim radarjem za prestrezanje VHF-pasov Lichtenstein SN-2, ki se uporablja tudi na nočnih lovcih Ju 88G in Bf 110G. To je bilo tudi prvo operativno vojaško letalo, opremljeno z izmetnimi sedeži in prvim delujočim nemškim letalom iz obdobja druge svetovne vojne s podvozjem za tricikle. Če bi bil Uhu na voljo v količini, bi to lahko pomembno vplivalo na strateško nočno bombardiranje Kraljevih letalskih sil; Toda do konca vojne je bilo izdelanih le 294 vseh modelov, ki so imeli le omejeno storitev. Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow je bil vodilni nočni lovski as na He 219. Modrow je bil zaslužen za 33 od 34 nočnih zračnih zmag na tipu.

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Dornier Do.335

Dornier Do.335

DržaviNacistična Nemčija
VlogoBorec-bombnik
Prvi let26. oktobra 1943
Zgrajena37

V Dornier Do 335 Pfeil ("puščica") je bil težak lovec druge svetovne vojne, ki ga je zgradilo podjetje Dornier. Dvosedežna trenažerska različica se je imenovala tudi Ameisenbär ("anteater"). Pfeilova zmogljivost je bila veliko boljša od drugih dvomotornih modelov zaradi svoje edinstvene postavitve "push-pull" in veliko manjšega aerodinamičnega upora vrstne poravnave obeh motorjev. To je bilo najhitrejše nemško batno letalo druge svetovne vojne. Luftwaffe si je obupno prizadevala, da bi zasnovo začela uporabljati, vendar so zamude pri dobavi motorjev pomenile, da je bila pred koncem vojne dostavljena le peščica.

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Tupolev Tu-22MO

Tupolev Tu-22M

DržaviSovjetski
VlogoStrateški bombnik/pomorska stavka
Prvi let30. avgust 1969
Zgrajena497

V Tupolev Tu-22M (rusko: Туполев Ту-22М; Natovo poročevalsko ime: Backfire) je nadzvočno, spremenljivo prečiščevano krilo, strateški in pomorski udarni bombnik dolgega dosega, ki ga je razvil oblikovalski urad Tupolev. Po nekaterih virih naj bi bil bombnik hkrati imenovan Tu-26. V času hladne vojne je Tu-22M v strateški bombni vlogi upravljalo Sovjetsko letalstvo (VVS) in sovjetsko pomorsko letalstvo (Aviacija Vojenno-Morskogo Flota, AVMF) v vlogi pomorskega pomorskega prevoznika dolgega dosega. [2] Pomembno število je še vedno v uporabi pri ruskih zračnih silah, od leta 2014 pa je v uporabi več kot 100 Tu-22Ms.

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Douglas A-4F Skyhawk

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

DržaviZda
VlogoNapadalna letala, lovci, agresorska letala
Prvi let22. junij 1954
Zgrajena2960

V Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single seat subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta winged, single turbojet engined Skyhawk was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later by McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the U.S. Navy’s pre-1962 designation system. The Skyhawk is a relatively lightweight aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 24,500 pounds (11,100 kg) and has a top speed of more than 670 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). The aircraft’s five hardpoints support a variety of missiles, bombs and other munitions. It was capable of carrying a bomb load equivalent to that of a World War II-era Boeing B-17 bomber, and could deliver nuclear weapons using a low-altitude bombing system and a “loft” delivery technique. The A-4 was originally powered by the Wright J65 turbojet engine; from the A-4E onwards, the Pratt & Whitney J52 was used. Skyhawks played key roles in the Vietnam War, the Yom Kippur War, and the Falklands War. Sixty years after the aircraft’s first flight in 1954, some of the 2,960 produced (through February 1979) remain in service with several air arms around the world.

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Heinkel He 100 D-1

Heinkel He 100

DržaviNacistična Nemčija
VlogoBorec
Prvi let22. januarja 1938
Zgrajena25

V Heinkel He 100 was a German pre-World War II fighter aircraft design from Heinkel. Although it proved to be one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development, the design was not ordered into series production. Approximately 19 prototypes and pre-production examples were built. None are known to have survived the war. The reason for the He 100 failing to reach production status is mostly unknown. Officially, the Luftwaffe rejected the He 100 to concentrate single-seat fighter development on the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Following the adoption of the Bf 109 and Messerschmitt Bf 110 as the Luftwaffe’s standard fighter types, the Ministry of Aviation (the Reichsluftfahrtministerium or RLM) announced a “rationalization” policy that placed fighter development at Messerschmitt and bomber development at Heinkel.

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De Havilland Vampire FB.6

de Havilland Vampire

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VlogoLovska letala
Prvi let20. septembra 1943
Zgrajena3268

V de Havilland Vampire je britanski reaktivni lovec, ki ga je razvila in izdelala družba de Havilland Aircraft Company. Delo na letalu se je začelo med drugo svetovno vojno kot večinoma eksperimentalno letalo, primerno za boj, ki je izkoristilo revolucionarno inovacijo reaktivnega pogona; hitro je bilo odločeno, da se odločimo za enomotorno, dvo-boom letalo, opremljeno s turboreaktivnim motorjem Halford H.1 (kasneje de Havilland Goblin). Prvotno naročeno kot poskusno letalo, odločitev o masovni proizvodnji letala kot prestreznika za Kraljevo vojno letalstvo (RAF) je bila sprejeta maja 1944.

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Dassault Mystere IVA

Dassault Mystere

DržaviFrancija
VlogoBorec-bombnik
Prvi let23. februar 1951
Zgrajena171

V Dassault MD.452 Mystère is a 1950s French fighter-bomber. After the success of the Ouragan, Dassault was working on a more advanced machine based on it, which would take to the air in early 1951 as the MD.452 Mystère I. The first prototype Mystère I was essentially an Ouragan with a 30-degree swept wing and modified tail surfaces. Two further prototypes followed, powered by the Rolls-Royce Tay 250 centrifugal-flow turbojet, an improved version of the Rolls-Royce Nene, built under license by Hispano-Suiza, and rated at 28.0 kN (6,300 lbf) thrust.

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