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On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and crashed near Sverdlovsk (present-day Yekaterinburg), after being hit by ...
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
Ukraine says it downed a Russian Su-24 fighter plane over the Black Sea near Snake Island as the aircraft was on its way to attack Odesa region.. Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukraine’s “sky ...
The Catalina affair ( Swedish: Catalinaaffären) was a military confrontation and Cold War -era diplomatic crisis in June 1952, in which Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over international waters in the Baltic Sea . The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas ...
Two Ukrainian fighter pilots who visited Washington, D.C. last week with their representatives had a simple message for the elected leaders, defense officials and journalists they met: We can win ...
April 30, 2024 at 10:05 AM. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian officials said on Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked Crimea with U.S.-produced Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in an attempt to pierce ...
On 9 May 2022, a Russian Su-35 fighter shot down a Mi-14 helicopter from the Ukrainian Navy Aviation killing Colonel Igor Bedzay, deputy head of the Ukrainian aicraft division of the Navy. [168] [169] As of August 2023, Russian aircraft was credited to have shot down 12 Ukrainian aircaft in air vs air engagements. [170]
1960 RB-47 shootdown incident. On 1 July 1960, a United States RB-47H reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing signals intelligence in the Barents Sea, near the Kola Peninsula, off the Arctic coast of the Soviet Union. Four of the six crew members died. [1] The shootdown occurred exactly two months ...