Incredible Flying Machines - An Anthology of Eccentric Aircraft (History eBook)
Flying fighting machines
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Transcript of Flying fighting machines
Flying fighting machines
By noah eisen
Airplanes
IAI Nesher
Is an Israeli produced airplane that was a modification of the mirage III it was sold to Argentina and used in the Falkland islands war and 6 day
F-22 Raptor
One of the fastest airplanes in the world, it can reach mach 2 it is a 3rd generation plane , it can carry two AIM-9 side winders 2 AIM-120 & 2 JDAM or it could carry 2 fuel tanks plus 4 missiles or 4 fuel tanks and 8 missiles
P51D Mustang
It could reach 440 MPH It has six .50 Cal machine guns One of the most famous WWII plane fought jets
P 26 Pea Shooter
Was the first fully metal monoplane in the USAF
Called like that because of its gun It was used from 1932 until 1941
A5M
Was the first monoplane It was the ancestor of the A6M Zero
IAI Heron 1
It is an Israeli plane It is a UAV can hold up to 250 Kg
IAI Kfir
It was made to replace the Nesher Can hold 5500Kg Sri Lanka, USA, Israel, Colombia and
Ecuador used it
U-2 Dragon Lady
Could fly at 21000 meters ( at 22000 meters your out of the countries airspace)
Famous for spying in the cold war until it was shot down with a
missile
F-35
Developed by lock heed martin It is really fast and could replace the
F-16, F-18, and the AV/8B harrier It can lift of vertically $35million
B2 Spirit
Made during the cold war it was made to drop nuclear bombs
Now used to drop JDAM and it is stealth
It costs $2.2 billion
Av 8B Harrier
It can lift of vertically but is hard to control
It is small It can like a helicopter and a F35 be
motionless in the sky but it takes a lot of effort of the pilot
It is relatively cheap $6.7 million
Helicopters
Apache longbow
It is one of the most advanced helicopters
It has a 30mm canon AGM hellfire antitank missiles, rocket louncher hydra 70, and for anti air aim9 sidewinder and aim92 stinger
Chinook
One of the only helicopters that is still used in warfare today because of the new combat zones where fast airplanes are better and it is used to carry troops orother things