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    The Polikarpov I-16 (Russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first...
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    operated in large numbers by the Soviet Air Force, and together with the Polikarpov I-16 monoplane, was one of the standard fighters of the Spanish Republicans...
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    Polikarpov I-180 (Russian: И-180) was a 1938 Soviet fighter prototype. It was the last attempt to extract performance from the basic Polikarpov I-16 design...
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    The Polikarpov I-153 Chaika (Russian Чайка, "Seagull") is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter. Developed from the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage...
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    The Polikarpov I-185 was a Soviet fighter aircraft designed in 1940. It was flown with three engines but all of them were either insufficiently developed...
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  • I16 (redirect from I-16)
    I16 may refer to: Interstate 16, an interstate highway in the U.S. state of Georgia Polikarpov I-16, a Soviet fighter aircraft introduced in the 1930s...
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    redline. Antonov An-2 Antonov An-6 Lisunov Li-2 Kharkiv KhAI-5 Polikarpov I-153 Polikarpov I-16 PZL-106 Kruk (some variants) PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader PZL M-24...
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  • The Polikarpov I-6 was a Soviet biplane fighter prototype of the late 1920s. It was designed with traditional wooden construction in comparison with the...
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    Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and...
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  • The Polikarpov I-5 was a single-seat biplane which became the primary Soviet fighter between its introduction in 1931 through 1936, after which it became...
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    The Polikarpov I-17 was a Soviet single-seat fighter prototype designed and built by a team headed by Nikolai Polikarpov at the Central Design Bureau (TsKB)...
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    Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Полика́рпов; 9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1892 – 30 July 1944) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer...
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  • ANT-23 I-13 - Polikarpov I-14 - Tupolev ANT-31 I-15/I-15bis/I-153 - Polikarpov TsKB-3 I-16 - Polikarpov TsKB-12/18/29 I-17 - Polikarpov TsKB-15/19/33 I-18...
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    extended range. The A5M's most competitive adversary in the air was the Polikarpov I-16, a fast and heavily armed fighter flown by both Chinese Air Force regulars...
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  • aircraft were provided to China. The aircraft included Polikarpov I-15, Polikarpov I-16, and Polikarpov I-153. Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Soviet Volunteer...
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    cancelled after only a small number had been built, the competing Polikarpov I-16 being preferred. In 1932, the Soviet Air Force developed a requirement...
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    The Polikarpov I-3 (Russian: Поликарпов И-3) was a Soviet fighter designed during the late 1920s. It entered service in 1929, but was retired in 1935 with...
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    The Polikarpov I-1 was the first indigenous Soviet monoplane fighter. It had to be redesigned after the crash of the first prototype, and was eventually...
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  • P-51 Mustang (small numbers supplied) Petlyakov Pe-3 Polikarpov I-15 Polikarpov I-153 Polikarpov I-16 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (195 supplied from the United...
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  • refuel from the bomber. The definitive Zveno-SPB using a TB-3 and two Polikarpov I-16s, each armed with two 250 kg (550 lb) bombs, was used operationally...
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    the Soviet Orgburo ordered that 225 aircraft, including 62 Polikarpov I-15, 93 Polikarpov I-16 and 8 Yakovlev UT-4 trainers, be sent to China. In March...
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    The Polikarpov Po-2 (also U-2 before 1944, for its initial uchebnyy, 'training', role as a flight instruction aircraft) served as an all-weather multirole...
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    August 1941, a pair of TB-3s in Zveno-SPB configuration, each with two Polikarpov I-16 fighters carrying a pair of 250 kg (550 lb) bombs, destroyed an oil...
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    operational planes in the loyalist side, the Polikarpov I-15, nicknamed "Chato" (Snubnosed) and the Polikarpov I-16, nicknamed "Mosca" (housefly) by the loyalists...
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  • Fredriksen 2001, p. 36. Peperell 1987, p. 79 Peperell 1987, p. 83 "Soviet Polikarpov I-16 Rata fighter". wwiivehicles.com. Archived from the original on 3 July...
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    Soviet-built Polikarpov I-16 fighters by the Chinese. In the 1939 Battle of Khalkhin Gol against the USSR in Mongolia, the Ki-27 faced both Polikarpov I-15 biplane...
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    (Dewoitine D.520 C.1) for Chasseur while in Russia "I" was used for Istrebitel, or exterminator (Polikarpov I-16). As fighter types have proliferated, the air...
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    downed four USSR Polikarpov I-16 fighters. He became an ace within 24 hours, after he claimed six more victories, downing a Polikarpov R-Z reconnaissance...
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  • model. Polikarpov I-1 35 - n/a not used Polikarpov I-3 389 1929–1935 n/a Polikarpov I-5 803 1931–1942 n/a Polikarpov I-6 2 - n/a prototype for I-5 Polikarpov...
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  • in 1938. The RS-82 missiles were carried by Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 fighter planes, the Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance plane and the Ilyushin Il-2...
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