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de Havilland DH 108 Swallow – Deadly Delta

The de Havilland DH 108 “Swallow” was an experimental prototype jet aircraft designed in response to a specification put out

The Saab 29 Tunnan was a jet fighter developed by the Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab AB in the late 1940s.

The Avro Shackleton was designed as a long-range maritime patrol aircraft and was heavily derived from the Avro Lancaster bomber.

The SSM-N-8 Regulus developed in 1951 was the first cruise missile design to be successfully mass produced and deployed with

The MGM-1 Matador was one of the first operational cruise missiles to be built in the United States. It was

For a large part of the Cold War, the Lim-5 and Lim-6 series served as the flagship fighter aircraft of

The Armstrong Whitworth AW 660 Argosy was developed in response to a British government military specification issued in the 1950s.

The N1 rocket was developed by the Soviet Union as Russia’s answer to the American Saturn rocket in an era

The Lun-class ekranoplan is a unique and fascinating machine that straddled the line between resembling an aircraft and a ship.

The Myasishchev VM-T “Atlant” (also known as the 3M-T) was developed by the Soviet Union as an aircraft to transport