By far the **best American fighter** in operational service in 1939, and by far the **shiniest aircraft** on this list, the * ...
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Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...
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Sukhoi, one of the Soviet Union’s premier aviation groups, built many noteworthy and impressive jets for the USSR in the twentieth century, and today does the same for Russia. One... Here’s What You ...
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Titanium is fantastically expensive, and difficult to fabricate, relative to other materials—meaning it was only ever practical to use on the world’s fastest plane.