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The Soviet Su-9 pilots who were ordered to ram Powers’ U-2 (One of them claimed to have downed it with the wake of his jet)

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

The Soviet Su-9 pilots who nearly rammed Powers’ U-2 and claimed to have downed it with the wake of their jets

Dario Leone

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The Soviet Su-9 fighters flew better without pilot: the incidents where pilotless Fishpot-Bs landed on their own

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety

The Soviet Su-9 fighters flew better without pilot: the incidents where pilotless Fishpot-Bs landed on their own

Dario Leone

Sponsored by: Schiffer Military

The story of the Su-15 that crashed after it tried to follow a SH 37 Viggen reconnaissance aircraft performing aerobatic manoeuvres at low altitude to shake off the Flagon

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The story of the Su-15 that crashed after it tried to follow a SH 37 Viggen reconnaissance aircraft performing aerobatic manoeuvres at low altitude to shake off the Flagon

Dario Leone

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That time a Sukhoi Su-15 crashed after ramming an Iranian Canadair CL-44 carrying smuggled weapons through Soviet Airspace

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

The story of the Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor that rammed an Iranian Canadair CL-44 carrying smuggled weapons through Soviet Airspace

Dario Leone

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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

Strange but true: the Soviet Su-9 flew better without pilot. The incidents where pilotless Fishpot-Bs landed on their own.

Dario Leone

Sponsored by: Schiffer Military

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