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    models coming into service, I-16s remaining the most common Soviet front-line fighter into 1942 despite being outclassed by the improved Bf 109s in World...
    123 KB (16,234 words) - 04:38, 1 June 2024
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    to be superior in all but turn radius to the Royal Air Force (RAF) front-line fighter, the Spitfire Mk. V variant. The 190 wrested air superiority away...
    76 KB (11,481 words) - 17:09, 22 April 2024
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    USAF, NATO and other Allied pilots and weapon systems officers in front-line fighter aircraft until being closed in 1993. George AFB was closed pursuant...
    49 KB (5,682 words) - 23:01, 26 May 2024
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    Supermarine, who was at the time engaged in the development of another front-line fighter, the Swift, decided to use this existing programme as the Type 545's...
    13 KB (1,239 words) - 14:27, 18 October 2022
  • throughout the Second World War and afterwards into the 1950s as both a front-line fighter and also in secondary roles. Many smaller countries purchased Spitfires...
    177 KB (22,156 words) - 23:36, 26 May 2024
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    Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (category 1930s German fighter aircraft)
    main front-line fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), particularly at low and medium altitudes. The 190 maintained its superiority over Allied fighters until...
    85 KB (11,418 words) - 00:52, 14 May 2024
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    fighter or lightweight fighter is a fighter aircraft towards the low end of the practical range of weight, cost, and complexity over which fighters are...
    70 KB (9,618 words) - 17:49, 1 May 2024
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    graduate in B.Sc. He is a former fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force. He flew the MiG 21 and MiG 23 in front line fighter squadrons. He served as the Controller...
    12 KB (653 words) - 17:46, 27 April 2024
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    USAF. For the next five years, these aircraft would continue as a front-line fighter with the active United States Air Force. It would also serve for over...
    20 KB (1,886 words) - 11:57, 28 May 2024
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    Sukhoi Su-7 (category 1950s Soviet fighter aircraft)
    OKB was reopened and by the summer, it began work on a swept-wing front-line fighter. The first prototype, designated S-1, was designed to use the new...
    22 KB (2,692 words) - 17:41, 10 May 2024
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    North American F-86 Sabre (category 1940s United States fighter aircraft)
    1950s, the Sabre proved versatile and adaptable and continued as a front-line fighter in numerous air forces. Its success led to an extended production...
    93 KB (11,336 words) - 00:49, 6 June 2024
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    Sukhoi Su-27 (redirect from Su-27 (fighter))
    began receiving Su-27s in June 1985. The first front-line unit to receive the Su-27 was the 831st Fighter Aviation Regiment at Myrhorod Air Base, Ukrainian...
    116 KB (11,080 words) - 23:47, 28 May 2024
  • The Frontkämpferprivileg (front-line fighter's privilege) was an exemption granted by the government of Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1935 to German Jews...
    4 KB (508 words) - 12:16, 1 March 2024
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    techniques. As a result, 100 octane fuel was able to be issued to all front-line Fighter Command aircraft starting in the spring of 1940. Although U-boats...
    58 KB (8,164 words) - 22:04, 7 February 2024
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    fighters, which at the time constituted nearly the entire Pakistani front-line fighter force. Indian sources have pointed out that, despite PAF claims of...
    158 KB (16,590 words) - 07:41, 28 May 2024
  • BLUF (bottom line up front) is the practice of beginning a message with its key information (the "bottom line"). This provides the reader with the most...
    42 KB (5,502 words) - 13:47, 4 April 2024
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    Supermarine Spitfire operational history (category 1930s British fighter aircraft)
    detection and attack. Post-war the Spitfire was to continue to serve as a front line fighter and in secondary roles for several air forces well into the 1950s...
    134 KB (17,917 words) - 19:15, 14 March 2024
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    to 15 losses. German Bf 109s replaced the Brewster as the primary front-line fighter of the FAF in 1943, though the Buffalos continued in secondary roles...
    52 KB (4,838 words) - 22:58, 5 May 2024
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    Junkers D.I (category 1910s German fighter aircraft)
    9 lacked the manoeuvrability necessary for a front-line fighter but was judged fit for a naval fighter and a batch of 12 was ordered. These were supplied...
    6 KB (552 words) - 03:58, 30 May 2024
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    Hawk – designated as the CT-155 Hawk – is used to train pilots for front-line fighter aircraft. The aircraft is operated under the NATO Flying Training...
    104 KB (10,157 words) - 00:26, 14 May 2024
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