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    On 11 December 1988, an Ilyushin Il-76M aircraft crashed. Operated by the Soviet Air Force, the flight participated in relief efforts after an earthquake...
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    an air relief operation following the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash. On 18 October 1989, a Soviet Air Force Il-76 (CCCP-76569)...
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    MiG-21s and 12 Il-28s were sent to Egypt, but without any crews. In 1967, the Algerian Air Force also bought its first surface-to-air missile systems...
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    20 cm. The first Il-18B flew on 30 September 1958 powered by the AI-20; a VIP variant was also built as the IL-18S for the Soviet Air Force. From April 1961...
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    The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF; Persian: نیروی هوایی ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized: Nirū-ye Havāyi-ye Arteš-e Jomhūri-ye Eslāmi-ye...
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    reporting name: Mainstay) is a Soviet-origin airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft that is based on the Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane. Developed...
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    The 2009 Iranian Air Force Il-76MD Adnan 2 accident occurred on 22 September 2009, when an Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2 crashed during a flyby near the city...
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    The Ilyushin Il-62 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-62; NATO reporting name: Classic) is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin....
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    manufacturing facilities for the Il-86 was a problem from the outset: "The rapid modernisation of the Soviet Air Force ... has left limited scope for the...
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    air force grew quickly when Iraq ordered more Soviet and French aircraft. The air force's peak came after the long Iran–Iraq War, which ended in 1988, when...
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    Respubliki Byelarus) is the air force of the Armed Forces of Belarus, formed in 1992 from the 26th Air Army of the Soviet Air Forces which had been serving...
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    of the air fleet. The Armenian Air Force sports the Armenak Khanperyants Military Aviation University. Although Armenia began taking over Soviet weapons...
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  • Archives". Baaa-acro.com. Retrieved 9 March 2022. Lori A. Carter, "Air Force plane crash south of Petaluma recalled 44 years later", Stars and Stripes, 19...
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    by King Zahir Shah in the 1960s. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union built up the Afghan Air Force, first in an attempt to defeat the mujahideen and in hopes...
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    States Air Force Academy. In July 1975, according to International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates, the Somali Air Force had three Il-28 bombers...
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  • TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash, an Ilyushin Il-76 crashes near Mogadishu, Somalia, after allegedly being hit by a surface-to-air missile killing all...
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    were reported lost during the war. 25 December 1979 – An Il-76 heavy transport plane crashed into a mountain near the village of Kanzak (Northeast of...
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    that the airliner was an Iranian Air Force F-14. 275: On February 19, 2003, an Iranian military Ilyushin Il-76 crashed in mountainous terrain near Kerman...
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    Sukhoi Su-24 (category 1970s Soviet bomber aircraft)
    Su-24 development, killing thirteen Sukhoi and Soviet Air Force test pilots, and more than 5 crashes per year were occurring at average after that The...
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    Czechoslovak Air Force (Československé letectvo) or the Czechoslovak Army Air Force (Československé vojenské letectvo) was the air force branch of the...
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  • disaster in Algeria until the 2018 Algerian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash, in which a Ilyushin Il-76 crashed shortly after take-off on 11 April 2018, killing...
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    retired Belarusian Air Force Su-27 fleet back to service was reported in February 2014. 9 September 1990: A Soviet Su-27 crashed at the Salgareda airshow...
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    History: LNA uses an Il-18D belonging to a foreign company to transport ammunition from Benina to Gharyan". "Libya Air Force aircraft crashes, pilot killed as...
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    with 6 crew members crashes off Guam." CBC News, 21 July 2008. Knaack 1988, pp. 292–294. "B-52H Stratofortress". United States Air Force. June 2019. Loftin...
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  • known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters...
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  • An-26 crashed while attempting a landing at Balad Air Base in Iraq. On 23 March 2007, a TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 airplane crashed in the...
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  • the Ilyushin Il-76, Tupolev Tu-160 "Beliy Lebed", and the Ilyushin Il-78, were all designed in the Soviet Union. However, though, some Soviet aircraft such...
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    Tupolev Tu-16 (category 1950s Soviet bomber aircraft)
    Liberation Army Air Force, with the most modern variant, the H-6K, still being actively produced as of 2020[update]. In the late 1940s, the Soviet Union was...
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    The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during...
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    proposals, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter....
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