An attack aircraft, strike aircraft, or attack bomber is a tactical military aircraft that has a primary role of carrying out airstrikes with greater precision...
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An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming...
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The ground attack aircraft listed here are military aircraft used to attack targets on the ground with greater speed and a smaller radar cross section...
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fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield permits bombers and attack aircraft to...
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The Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program was initiated by the United States Army in 2018 to develop a successor to the Bell OH-58 Kiowa...
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Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft, NATO codename "Bark", 1939, most-produced military aircraft of all time. Il-6 (TsKB-60) ground attack aircraft project developed...
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Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, on either ground or sea targets. This list does not include airships...
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Close air support (redirect from Ground attack)
specialized ground attack aircraft, although it was too late to see much action. During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of 1918, CAS aircraft functioned as...
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MiG-23 ground-attack aircraft and the Soviet Ilyushin Il-2. Also included among combat aircraft are long-range maritime patrol aircraft, such as the Hawker...
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1945 Su-6: ground attack aircraft, 1942 Su-7: prototype mixed-power high-altitude interceptor, 1944 Su-8/DDBSh: ground attack aircraft, 1943 Su-9: jet fighter...
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Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat. This list does not aim to include attack aircraft primarily intended for...
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Gunship (redirect from Aircraft gunship)
A gunship is a military aircraft armed with heavy aircraft guns, primarily intended for attacking ground targets either as airstrike or as close air support...
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Anti-aircraft guns are weapons designed to attack aircraft. Such weapons commonly have a high rate of fire and are able to fire shells designed to damage...
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detect, track, or attack the stealth aircraft. This philosophy takes into account the heat, sound, and other emissions of the aircraft which can also be...
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aerial reconnaissance, forward air control, and electronic-warfare aircraft. Attack missions include the subtypes air interdiction, suppression of enemy...
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table includes single-engined and single-seat fighters and ground attack aircraft Production only, not used by manufacturing nation Total production...
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fighter-bomber + ground-attack Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet (Comet), interceptor (rocket-engined) Messerschmitt Me 209, fighter + speed-record aircraft (prototype)...
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An attack helicopter is an armed helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the offensive capability of engaging ground targets such...
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Harrier jump jet (redirect from Harrier fighter/attack aircraft)
informally referred to as the Harrier jump jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL)....
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Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (redirect from Attack Experimental)
Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF)...
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list of United States bomber aircraft, including those with the capability of bombing, meaning aircraft such as strike aircraft (also known as tactical bombers)...
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Airstrike (redirect from Aerial attack)
carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters...
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This is a list of United States-used attack aircraft, which typically perform tactical bombing and close air support against ground targets. "A-26 Invader...
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Yugoslav Air Force (section Ground attack aviation)
205 attack aircraft 88 reconnaissance aircraft 26 transport aircraft 6 VIP Transport aircraft 430 trainer aircraft 6 special mission aircraft 187 transport...
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This is a list of aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Trainer aircraft of the Imperial Japanese...
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An aircraft (pl.: aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static...
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Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft with an armament of laser-guided smart bombs, and by F-4G Wild Weasel aircraft as well as F/A-18 Hornet aircraft armed with...
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attack aircraft Culver PQ-8/A-8 - Radio-controlled target aircraft Culver PQ-14 Cadet - Radio-controlled target aircraft Curtiss A-12 Shrike - Attack...
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simulated combat, attack and fighter techniques. Typically, contemporary military pilots learn initial flying skills in a light aircraft not too dissimilar...
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strike or attack missions, reconnaissance, interdiction roles or trainer roles. They are typically slower than larger multirole or strike aircraft such as...
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