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Russian military aircraft appear to be joining the ground troops around Ukraine, with dozens of warplanes shifting west in recent weeks.

Soviet and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Air Force (DRAAF) jet bombers began crossing into Pakistani airspace to blast those refugee camps in 1979.

By the end of the war, there were three female air regiments that eventually flew more than thirty thousand sorties and produced at least thirty Heroes of the Soviet Union. 

Some unusual cargo.  Here's What You Need to Remember: These special TB-3s were not carrying any bombs at all. Instead, the I-16 Type 24 fighters braced under the bomber’s wings each carried two 250-kilogram bombs. Early in the morning of August 10, 1941, three boxy Soviet TB-3 bombers took off from the airbase at Yevpatoria in the Crimean Peninsula, bearing a most unusual cargo under their gargantuan wings: two manned, stubby-nosed I-16 fighter planes, their Shvetsov radial engines chortling and propellers spinning to help propel the sluggish four-engine TB-3s they were attached to. One o...

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