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List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War; List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Libyan Civil War (2011) List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Syrian Civil War
Intercepting Aircraft Interceptor Reference April 8, 1950: Baltic Sea: US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer: La-11 "Fang" Soviet Air Defence Forces [16] [17] September 4, 1950: Near Vladivostok: Soviet Naval Aviation A-20 bomber: F4U-4B Corsair: US Navy [18] October-December 1950 Near Vladivostok: Soviet Air Defence Forces MiG-15: P2V-3 Neptune (Defensive ...
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its successor states of the CIS. The service time frame begins with the year the aircraft entered military service (not the date of first flight ...
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF: The aircraft touched down far past the displaced threshold, leaving the aircraft insufficient runway to stop due to severe icing, and came to a stop in Boston Harbor. Two passengers were never found and are presumed to have drowned. January 13, 1982 78 9 5 Air Florida Flight 90: Potomac River, Washington, D.C.
Aircraft by nationality of original manufacturer International joint ventures Algeria • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Austria and Austria-Hungary • Belgium • Brazil • Bulgaria • Canada • Chile • China • Colombia • Cyprus • Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia • Denmark • Egypt • Estonia • Finland • France • Georgia (country) • East Germany • Germany ...
During the Second World War, Soviet espionage agents obtained classified reports on electronic advances in radio-beacon artillery fuzes by Emerson Radio, including a complete proximity fuze (reportedly the same fuze design that was later installed on Soviet anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down Francis Gary Powers's U-2 in 1960). [25]
The government also implemented plans to expand the Soviet aircraft industry to make it less dependent on foreign built aircraft; [15]: 10–11 in 1930, 50% of aircraft flying services in the Soviet Union were of foreign manufacture. [15]: 8 Expansion of air routes which had taken shape in the late 1920s, [15]: 8 continued into the 1930s.