American Attack Aircraft, Part 14: Career of Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
The A-10A Thunderbolt II entered serial production in 1975, and on September 30 of the following year, the first aircraft...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 13: New Generation, the Precursors to the A-10A
After the Second World War, the evolution of attack aviation in the U.S. Air Force was effectively interrupted, and attack...
Cessna 408 SkyCourier: From Commercial Cargo Aircraft to Military Use
On 31 January, the Belgian government announced its intention to procure Cessna 408 SkyCourier aircraft for the air component of...
Weapons of Ukrainian Victory: The An-28 as an Air Defense Aircraft
This morning a striking photo of an An-28’s nose surfaced online, its fuselage marked with some seventy victory tallies – ...
Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: MICA Air-to-air Missile
Ukrainian Mirage 2000 fighters, unlike the F-16, have revealed far less information about their operational armament. While F-16 “Fighting Falcons”...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 12: Lessons from the Luftwaffe
The highly effective use of German dive bombers during the Polish campaign and the Western Blitzkrieg naturally drew the interest...
Pilatus Turboprop Aircraft: An Overview of PC-9
The PC-7 aircraft, whose long history I discussed recently, proved to be a commercially successful project. However, in 1980 it...
American Attack Aircraft, Part 11: Near-Bomber Designs of the Second World War
Readers may recall that in the tenth article of this series on U.S. attack aircraft of the interwar period, we...
Weapons of Ukraine’s Victory: Paveway IV Guided Bombs
The arsenal of high‑precision air‑to‑surface weapons used by our aviation has been expanded with another Western‑origin system – the Paveway IV guided aerial...