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  • Thumbnail for Rocket-powered aircraft
    A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines....
    33 KB (4,091 words) - 03:40, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for High Velocity Aircraft Rocket
    The High Velocity Aircraft Rocket, or HVAR, also known by the nickname Holy Moses, was an American unguided rocket developed during World War II to attack...
    14 KB (1,472 words) - 09:28, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zuni (rocket)
    The Zuni 5-inch Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR), or simply Zuni, is a 5.0 in (127 mm) unguided rocket developed by the Hunter-Douglas Division of Bridgeport...
    14 KB (1,169 words) - 02:46, 18 March 2024
  • A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines....
    7 KB (240 words) - 15:22, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 5-Inch Forward Firing Aircraft Rocket
    The five-inch forward-firing aircraft rocket or FFAR was an American rocket developed during World War II for attack from airplanes against ground and...
    4 KB (259 words) - 14:48, 2 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Taifun (rocket)
    was a German World War II anti-aircraft unguided rocket system. Waves of small, relatively cheap, Taifun flak rockets were to be launched en masse into...
    7 KB (697 words) - 19:33, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3.5-Inch Forward Firing Aircraft Rocket
    5-inch Forward Firing Aircraft Rocket, or 3.5-Inch FFAR, was an American rocket developed during World War II to allow aircraft to attack enemy submarines...
    8 KB (753 words) - 17:45, 25 October 2023
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    Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment, Dmitrov 3 battalions of the 606th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment, Elektrostal 2 battalions of the 93rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment...
    146 KB (12,175 words) - 18:07, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thrust vectoring
    vectoring, also known as thrust vector control (TVC), is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its...
    33 KB (3,926 words) - 01:17, 28 May 2024
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    Airplane (redirect from Plane (aircraft))
    informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety...
    56 KB (6,444 words) - 05:50, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ram (rocket)
    Anti-Tank Aircraft Rocket or ATAR, was an air-to-ground rocket used by the United States Navy during the Korean War. Developed rapidly, the rocket proved...
    7 KB (628 words) - 19:38, 6 January 2024
  • steamship during the American Civil War Ceres-1, a PR of China four stage rocket Ceres (band), a band from Melbourne, Australia Ceres (sculpture), a c.1770...
    5 KB (594 words) - 09:12, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket launcher
    A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile. The earliest rocket launchers documented in imperial China consisted...
    10 KB (1,092 words) - 18:40, 3 April 2024
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    referred to as powered flight. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many...
    43 KB (5,217 words) - 02:55, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2.25-Inch Sub-Caliber Aircraft Rocket
    Sub-Caliber Aircraft Rocket, or SCAR, was an American unguided rocket developed by the United States Navy during World War II and used for sub-caliber rocket training...
    7 KB (546 words) - 13:48, 25 March 2023
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    The Bombardment Aircraft Rocket, also known as BOAR, the Bureau of Ordnance Aircraft Rocket, and officially as the 30.5-Inch Rocket, Mark 1, Mod 0, was...
    7 KB (552 words) - 03:31, 16 August 2023
  • The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for...
    21 KB (2,104 words) - 22:54, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jet aircraft
    pulsejet and rocket powered aircraft were designed. Rocket-engine research was being carried out in Germany and the first aircraft to fly under rocket power...
    21 KB (2,793 words) - 03:11, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1488th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
    The 1488th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Russian: 1488-й зенитный ракетный полк; Military Unit Number 03216) is a surface-to-air missile regiment of...
    6 KB (635 words) - 17:07, 1 June 2022
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    RP-3 (redirect from RP-3 rocket)
    The first use of rockets fired from aircraft was during the First World War. The "unrotated projectiles" (UPs) were Le Prieur rockets mounted on the interplane...
    44 KB (5,106 words) - 17:29, 16 May 2024
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