what types of aircraft were used in the attack
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Pearl Harbor Aircraft (December 7th, 1941) - Combat Warplanes of the Japanese Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Aircraft used in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War 2. Pearl Harbor Aircraft (December 7th, 1941) - Combat Warplanes of the Japanese Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii The surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor undoubtedly changed the course of World War 2 - and the entire world thereafter.
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Ground Attack One of the earliest ground-attack aircraft was based on the Junkers J.I which utilized the Bathtub armour providing exceptional protection for the fuselage, engine, and crew. The British quickly caught onto the German's ground attack aircraft designs and started developing some of their own.
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Mikoyan MiG-31 The MiG-31 was the world's first operational fighter with a passive electronically scanned array radar (PESA), the Zaslon S-800. Its maximum range against fighter-sized targets is approximately 200 km (125 mi), and it can track up to 10 targets and simultaneously attack four of them with its AA-9 'Amos' missiles.
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Operation Southern Watch This was the first combat kill by an F-16 in USAF service, and the first combat kill using the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile. On 17 January 1993, a USAF F-16C destroyed an Iraqi MiG-23 with an AMRAAM missile for the second USAF aerial victory.
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10. Hawker Hurricane â 14,533 Units Like a number of other Luftwaffe bombers, it was used successfully as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and even, during the closing stages of the conflict in Europe, as a flying bomb.
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Stealth technology The term stealth in reference to reduced radar signature aircraft became popular during the late eighties when the Lockheed Martin F-117 stealth fighter became widely known. The first large scale (and public) use of the F-117 was during the Gulf War in 1991. However, F-117A stealth fighters were used for the first time in combat during Operation Just Cause, the United States invasion of Panama in 1989.
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- A group of four planes were eventually sent into combat in 1945, but their usage was limited to defense and reconnaissance. 1  First Jet Powered Aircraft. 2  Jet Engines and Aircraft from the US Navy Museum. 3  First Operational Jet Bomber/Reconnaissance Aircraft. 4  Early Jet Fighters. 5  World War II and the Jet Engine.
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The Legend of the Kamikaze: Suicide Bombers in World War 2 The Japanese in general would bristle at any comparison of the acts of today’s terrorists, such as the Al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers, to the Kamikaze pilots in World War 2. Their suicide bombers’ targets were strictly military. Terrorists such as Al-Qaeda make no distinction between military and civilian targets.
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WW2 Planes: A History of World War 2 Aircraft Over 160 different types of aircraft were using during World War 2 and include the already mentioned Messerschmitt BF-109, Focke-Wulf 190 and Supermarine Spitfire. A few more notable WW2 planes include: 1  The P51 Mustang.
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User Contributed Dictionary The Soviet Yak-38 Forger was the Soviet Navy's VTOL aircraft for their light carriers, cargoships, and capital ships. It was developed from the Yak-36 Freehand experimental aircraft. Before the Soviet Union collapsed, a supersonic VTOL aircraft was developed as the Yak-38's successor, the Yak-141, which never went
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Attack aircraft As World War II approached, the concept of an attack aircraft was not well defined, and various air services used many different names for widely differing types, all performing similar roles (sometimes in tandem with non-attack roles of bombers, fighters, reconnaissance and other roles.
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Abu Nidal Targets included the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, moderate. Palestinians, the PLO, and various Arab countries. Major attacks included the Rome and. Vienna airports in 1985, the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, the hijacking of Pan Am. Flight 73 in Karachi in 1986, and the City of Poros day-excursion ship attack in Greece in.
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General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark The F-111 remains in service with the RAAF, who use the aircraft in the attack and reconnaissance roles. The RAAF's aircraft have been comprehensively upgraded and modernized with digital avionics, and are able to use the latest precision-guided munitions.
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What kind of planes were used in world war 2? US forces managed to get a few fighters off the ground and used them, but not any other kinds. In the rest of the war EVERYBODY used fighters, bombers (regular bombers as well as dive bombers), reconnaissance planes, and torpedo planes. The Japanese used the Zero fighter, the Val and the Kate at Pearl Harbour, as I recall.
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- Douglas A-20 Havoc. The Douglas A-20 Havoc was a light-bomber, attack and night-fighter and one of the first American aircraft to serve in World War II. First built during the late-1930s, the majority of Havocs served with the Soviets, with the next biggest operator being the US Army Air Force (USAAF), followed by Great Britain.
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American Airlines Flight 11 American Airlines Flight 11. American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda members on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.
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- On 24 September 2014, the Dutch government announced its participation in the military campaign against ISIL which, as they claimed, had been started by the United States, and sent six F-16 fighter jets to Iraq to bomb ISIL.
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World War II Interesting Facts about the Aircraft of World War II. 1  The Japanese used a tactic called Kamikaze where they would purposely crash a plane into an enemy ship to sink it. 2  Airplanes also played an important role in the war at sea through the use of aircraft carriers. 3  Around 12,000 heavy bombers were shot down during the war.
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- A number of stealth technologies were incorporated into the design of the last Soviet fighter jets, the MiG-29 and MiG-27. New Russian aircraft, including the Su-34 fighter-bomber, the MiG-35 light frontline fighter, and the Su-35S heavy fighter utilize technology that reduces their visibility.
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Australian Defence Force The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has completed the first fuel transfer with the air refuelling boom from a RAAF KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) to a US Air Force (USAF) F-35A Joint Strike Fighter at Edwards Air Force Base in California.he Royal Australian Air Force has confirmed that aircraft wreckage found in waters south of Cairns is that of RAAF Number 11 Squadron Catalina A24-25 that crashed on 28 February 1943, killing all 11 personnel on board.
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Can You Guess The Fastest Plane In The World? The F-1117 was strictly a ground-attack aircraft during the Gulf War of 1991. It also took part in the conflict in Yugoslavia in 1999, where one of the planes was shot down by a surface-to-air missile and became the only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. The U.S. Air Force officially retired the F-117 in April 2008.
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World War I As the war progressed, both sides began to use aircraft to drop bombs on strategic enemy locations. The first planes used for bombings could only carry small bombs and were very vulnerable to attack from the ground.
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Can You Guess The Fastest Plane In The World? Wikipedia. The F-1117 Nighthawk is a single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed’s secretive Skunk Works division. The plane made its maiden flight in 1981 and achieved initial operating status in 1983, but was operated in secrecy until 1988. The F-1117 was strictly a ground-attack aircraft during the Gulf War of 1991. It also took part in the conflict in Yugoslavia in 1999, where one of the planes was shot down by a surface-to-air missile and became the only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. The U.S. Air Force officially retired the F-117 in April 2008.
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Operation Enduring Freedom - Operations Twenty US military flights to or from Afghanistan crossed Romania each day. As of 23 October 2001 Air Force B-2, B-1 and B-52 bombers from the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, Diego Garcia had expended more than 80 percent of the tonnage dropped on combat missions over Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.fter only 20 days of airstrikes, Northern Alliance forces began their march on the capital, and captured it 24 hours later. A total of 211 US Air Force planes used Ukraine's air corridors between 9 October and 7 November 2001, according to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.
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Military Lingo the Douglas AC-47 Spooky gunship, an American military plane used during the Vietnam War
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- The Boeing Superfortress was one of the largest aircraft used in World War II. The Boeing Superfortress was a 4 engine heavy bomber known for delivering the atomic bomb during the war. Boeing Superfortress history, design, development, production numbers, assembly lines, specifications, and surviving planes.