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Arado Ar 234B-2 “Nachtigall”

This particular aircraft (WNr 140146) was flown by Hauptmann Kurt Bonow based in Oranienburg during March 1945. It seems that during the last weeks of the War he managed to engage some RAF Mosquito night fighters although he failed to down any of them. Some references mention that a cramped radar compartment in the aft […]

Air Warfare, Aircraft

Fighters in the West

CLASH OF EAGLES – Roy Grinnell On the morning of May 25, 1944, three pilots from the 4th Fighter Group, the “Debden Eagles”, 336th Fighter Squadron, 8th Air Force, were over Germany looking for trouble. Flying near Botenheim, they encountered German planes from III JG1, 9th Staffel.During the ensuing dogfight, a Messerschmitt Bf109G-6/AS (also known […]

Air Warfare

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Air Warfare, German Units

Flying Circus

Richthofen’s Flying Circus, by Nicolas Trudgian An elite German fighter unit in World War I. World War I was the first time aircraft were used in combat against each other. Before then the United States had used aircraft in scouting roles, and when World War I broke out, it was scouting that was the primary […]

Air Warfare, Aircraft

Blitz Bomber

KG 76 Arado Ar234B Sorties over Remagen March 9th 1945 III./KG76 flew three sorties against the Remagen bridge. Ofw Bruchlos of 8./KG76 was reported missing in WNr.140589 following an attack on the bridge. March 11th 1945 Two Ar234s from III./KG76 attack the bridge. March 12th 1945 Two Ar234s from the Stab and two from 6./KG76 […]

Air Warfare, Weapons

Airmobile Communications

During military operations in South Vietnam in the early 1960s, command and control of tactical forces assumed new importance. Military operations conducted by the Viet Cong were mainly hit-and-run tactics against small advisory American units and the South Vietnamese army in jungle areas. Command and control necessitated an aerial command post from which a Vietnamese […]

Air Warfare, Aircraft

A “Predator” is born

Gnat 750 Abraham Karem was about to change the world, but he had no idea. It was 1980 in Hacienda Heights outside Los Angeles. Karem, a then-forty-three-year-old aeronautical engineer born in Baghdad and raised in Israel, was spending much of his time in his garage. The garage doubled as headquarters for Karem’s own aerospace design […]

Air Warfare, Japan

Japanese Army Air Force – China 1942

During early 1942, the enemy gradually strengthened its air forces in south China, especially around Hengyang and K’weilin. Also, aerial pictures taken by the 1st Air Brigade in late March showed that the runways on Chuhsien, Lishui and Yushan airfields had been increased from 700 meters to 1,500 meters; that ammunition and fuel were gradually […]

Air Warfare, Aircraft

Early evolution of nuclear-armed bombers

B-29 and B-36 1948 … Boeing B-50 strategic bomber The evolution of nuclear-armed bombers began with the use of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, an aircraft designed in World War II to carry conventional weapons. Crews flew this aircraft to drop the 13-kiloton Little Boy atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the […]

Air Warfare, Aircraft

Arab Reconnaissance Aircraft

MiG-25RBS Unit: 9 Sqn, SyAAF Syrian Foxbats were flying regular recce sorties around – and even over – Israel during the 1990s. SyAAF still operates two MiG-25RBs with 7th OCU, based at Shayrat AB, and six examples – including this MiG-25RBS – with the 9th Sqn, based at Dmeyr AB. For operations in connection with […]