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Kapten Trumm kirjutas:
Mis aeroplaaniga tegemist?

Kapten Trumm kirjutas:Õige vastus.
Antud aeroplaan kogus tuntust eelkõige sellega, et nende abil on NSVL alla tulistanud kaks reisilennukit - üks Sahhalinil (nn KAL 007), aga teine mõnevõrra varem Murmanski kandis, mis suutis siiski külmunud järvele ühes tükis maanduda.

A novel idea–ramming a cargo plane

The Flagon’s armament also exhibited shortcomings in a second attack three years later when the Su-15 of Capt. Valentin Kulyapin intercepted a CL-44 transport of the Argentine Airline Transporte Aereo Rioplatense that had strayed a short distance into Soviet airspace over Azerbaijan.

The 41-meter-long, four-engine propeller plane was returning from a smuggling run to Iran, where it had delivered Israeli weapons. However, the crew had drifted over the wrong side of the the Turkish-Soviet border en route to Cyprus.

The clunky transport plane maneuvered to avoid Kulyapin’s interceptor, eventually slowing down to below the Su-15’s stall speed. Kulyapin saw this as proof of ill intent, and grew determined to destroy the cargo plane before it could exit Soviet airspace. However, he was too close to use his air-to-air missiles, which had a one-mile minimum range.

According to his account, he therefore decided on his own initiative to ram his interceptor into the cargo plane before it could cross back over the border to safety.

Kulyapin then flew up to the transport’s tail and bumped its stabilizer with the nose of his plane, the impact causing his canopy to shatter in a blizzard of glass. Then he butted his plane a second time into the lumbering transport.

This time, the 19-ton fighter sliced through the CL-44’s right stabilizer. Kulyapin successfully ejected from his stricken plane, while the CL-44 smashed into Armenian soil, killing the three Argentinians and one Englishman aboard. The Soviet Union celebrated Kulyapin as a hero and awarded him the Order of the Red Banner for the ramming attack.

Lemet kirjutas:Riiklik standard G 3, mõõtudega 2.10 x 0.85? Peaks nobedad näpud olema.

krizz kirjutas:Haakrist nagu sommidelgi.

Masur kirjutas:Et jättis Elami unarusse ja pärslased nabisid maad vaikselt omale?