Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed...
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The Zeppelin Rammer (German: Rammjäger) was a design proposal by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin intended to use aerial ramming against the allied bombers attacking...
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Yekaterina Zelenko (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Zelenko actually committed an aerial ramming, pointing out major discrepancies in the accounts describing her alleged ramming. Her first nomination for the...
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case of actual use, a "special detachment" unit dedicated to desperate aerial ramming tactics, known as Sonderkommando Elbe. In August 1944, a requirement[clarification...
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a hard object and enhance the momentum of the impact significantly. Aerial ramming – In military aviation, deliberately causing a mid-air collision to...
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down heavy bombers by ramming them in mid-air. Its sole mission took place on 7 April 1945, when a force of 180 Bf 109s managed to ram 15 Allied bombers,...
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Amet-khan Sultan (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
came to be teased by several of his fellow pilots for ramming his plane upwards instead of ramming downward and smashing only the landing gear of the plane...
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includes people with the given name and surname Taran, Russian term for aerial ramming in wartime A Welsh god, associated with the Gaulish Taranis Rutilus...
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Anatoly Morozov (pilot) (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
first aerial victory, shooting down a PZL.23 while piloting a MiG-3. He continued to tally more aerial victories, including the aerial ramming of a Bf...
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Swede Vejtasa (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
War II carrier pilot awarded the Navy Cross "for both dive bombing and aerial combat." He left Flying Squadron 10 in May 1943 and returned to the United...
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Nikolai Gastello (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Presaizen was never awarded a Hero for the confirmed hit to this day. Aerial ramming "ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА --[ Мемуары ]-- Скрипко Н.С. По целям ближним и...
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Special attacks, a feature of fighting games Special attack (Pokémon) Aerial ramming Attack (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Vasily Mikhalyov (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
1944 for his initial victories, he totaled over 20 solo aerial victories including an aerial ramming during the war, although the exact tally is subject to...
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Also gained aerial victories in the battle for Khalkhin Gol Andrey Borovykh 46 29 17 — Vladimir Serov 45 39 6 Including one aerial ramming. Vladimir Lavrinenkov...
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Viktor Talalikhin (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union, among the first to perform aerial ramming at night. Talalikhin became a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces...
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Giorgio Graffer (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
After the guns of Graffer's aircraft jammed, he continued his action by ramming the enemy aircraft which, in attempting to return to its base, crashed...
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Nikolai Ignatev (pilot) (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Nikolai Petrovich Ignatev (Russian: Николай Петрович Игнатьев; 16 December 1917 — 4 August 1994) was a Soviet fighter pilot during World War II. Awarded...
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Kamikaze (category Aerial operations and battles of World War II)
the monster Godzilla in postwar Japan. Aviation portal Japan portal Aerial ramming Banzai charge Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots Kampfgeschwader...
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Boris Kovzan (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
he conducted his first aerial ramming as a junior lieutenant in the 42nd Fighter Aviation Regiment over Zagorsk. He rammed a German Messerschmitt Bf...
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Marinos Mitralexis (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
World War II credited with 5 aerial victories. He gained fame when he managed to bring down an enemy bomber by ramming its tail, on 2 November 1940....
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Nikolai Artamonov (pilot) (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Nikolai Semyonovich Artamonov (Russian: Николай Семёнович Артамонов; 21 May 1920 – 26 March 1945) was a Soviet fighter pilot who became a flying ace during...
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Ray Holmes (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
his Hawker Hurricane to destroy a Dornier Do 17 bomber over London by ramming. He was feted by the press as a war hero for his saving of the Palace....
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Heinrich Ehrler (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
while ramming an enemy bomber. According to Ehrler's final received transmission, he radioed "Theo, I've just used all my ammunition. I'm going to ram. Good...
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to little avail, and in the end aircraft were used effectively in aerial ramming attacks. They were also used in kamikaze attacks, such as the attack...
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Vladimir Shalimov (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
the Red Star in 1941 and Orders of the Red Banner in 1940 and 1942. Aerial ramming Kamikaze Nikolai Gastello Ismailbek Taranchiev Bocharov, Anton. "Шалимов...
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Konstantin Novikov (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Konstantin Afanasyevich Novikov (Russian: Константин Афанасьевич Новиков; 6 August 1919 — 9 January 1958) was a Soviet flying ace during World War II,...
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September 1914, the Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov performed the first aerial ramming aircraft attack in the history of aviation Later, Lt. Vyacheslav Tkachov...
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Ivan Fyodorov (pilot) (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Ivan Vasilyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Фёдоров; 21 September 1920 — 28 August 2000) was one of the top Soviet fighter pilots during World...
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Stalingrad. Tamara Pamyatnykh – attempted an aerial ramming, but the wing of her plane was damaged before she could ram Antonina Lebedeva – went on to fly in...
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successful Russian flying ace of World War I, the first to perform an aerial ramming and survive Sergei Khudyakov, Marshal of Aviation during World War II...
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