Spectacular Photos Absolutely great Navy and Air Force shots. B-29 Frozen for 50 years The B-29 “Kee Bird” was left on the Ice Cap for 50 years. This heartbreaking story details the recovery attempt. Contributed by Wayland Mayo WAR DOGS of VIETNAM They Gave Their Lives For The U.S....
Before moving onto jet propelled Sabre aircraft, the propeller driven Mustang phase of the war saw SAAF pilots on these sorties coming in ‘low and slow’ into the range of enemy ground based anti-aircraft fire which proved highly dangerous and in operations of this kind using the Mustangs, t...
Navy EC-121 surveillance plane, killing all 31 crew.The latest incident happened on Sunday morning, Korean time, and there was no hostile fire, Lt Cmdr Davis said.The most recent crisis involving US reconnaissance aircraft was in April 2001, when a Chinese fighter jet collided with a Navy ...
The one area where death actually took an upswing was the air war. While ground combat actions lessoned, air operations for the Air Force, Navy and Marines increased, giving July the second most aircraft and aircrew losses for the year, April being the first. With the majority of these ...
and strategic MUAV under flight test and tilt rotor UAV. The successful completion of the Navy P-3C maritime patrol aircraft upgrade program which is the core power of the anti-submarine operation of the Republic of Korea and the Air Force's SIGINT aircraft system...
U.S. Navy AD-4NA Skyraiders drop their ordnance on a target during the Korean War. National Naval Aviation Museum photoU.S. Navy sailors tow a F9F Panther jet into position aboard a U.S. Navy carrier operating somewhere off the coast of Korea. The Panther was the same type of ...
Military history Air force Military commanders Navy Air power Korean war North korea Government(Foreign) Joint military activities South korea Strategic bombing Bomber aircraft China Communism United nations Jet fighters Tactical air support Military forces(Foreign) United states government Ussr F-80 aircraf...
The fighters were ordered back to base when KAL 007 left Soviet airspace over the Sea of Okhotst. After the Soviets admitted that they had indeed shot down KAL 007, they maintained that they had warned KAL 007 by radio and rounds of tracers. However the Soviet Top Secret Memos to Yuri...
2. Attacks on aircraft, both civilian and military, were not uncommon in the Cold War, due to elevated political tensions and the readiness by air defence systems.3. Korean Air Flight 007 was shot down by MiG fighters after straying into Soviet airspace, north of Japan. Its incorrect ...