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Hace 5 días · German day- and night-fighter pilots claimed more than 70,000 aerial victories during World War II. Of these, an estimated 745 victories were attributed to Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters. [76] Flak shot down 25,000–30,000 Allied planes.
22 de may. de 2024 · At the speeds and altitudes at which such aircraft can operate, the problem of striking and destroying enemy aircraft becomes extremely complicated and requires an array of electronic, navigational, and computational gear. A single-seated, high-performance fighter of the 1980s might weigh as much as, and be vastly more complicated than, one of the multiengined bombers of World War II.
18 de may. de 2024 · Aircraft type: Carrier-based fighter. Country of origin: Japan. From 1940 to 1945, Japan produced almost 11,000 Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 Carrier Fighters, making it the most-produced fighter in the ...
Hace 2 días · The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", [b] is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe 's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939 ...
Hace 1 día · The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals ...
17 de may. de 2024 · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
Hace 4 días · The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War.The Meteor's development was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, pioneered by Frank Whittle and his company, Power Jets Ltd.Development of the aircraft began in 1940, although work on the engines had been under way since 1936.
