Reference Lists/Cold War
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Cold War Era Reference List
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- Aircraft-Carrying Aircraft
- Algerian War of Independence
- Angolan War of Independence
- Berlin Airlift
- Chiapas Uprising
- Chinese Civil War
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces Post-World War II
- Congo Crisis
- Constant Peg
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Iran-Iraq War
- Israeli War of Independence
- Malayan Emergency
- Operation Eagle Claw
- Operation El Dorado Canyon
- Operation Hajji Baba
- Operation Jonah Able
- Operation Opera
- Operation Vijay
- Orenburg Military Pilots School
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- Rhodesian Bush War
- SAGE
- Salvadoran Civil War
- Six-Day War
- Soviet Air Force Manpower
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- Soviet Izdelie Numbers
- Soviet Military Districts
- Suez Crisis
- Vietnam War
- War of Attrition
- Yom Kippur War
[edit] People
| Aderholt, Harry | Legendary Air Force Special Operations air commander during the Korean and Vietnam Wars |
| Boyd, John | Fighter pilot, visionary genius in air-to-air combat tactics, and military strategist |
| Deinekin, Pyotr | Last Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Forces, and first Commander in Chief of the Russian Federation Air Forces |
| Epstein, Giora | Leading Israeli fighter ace, with 17 confirmed victories |
| Kutakhov, Pavel | Soviet World War II fighter ace and later Commander in Cheif of the Soviet Air Forces, two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Skripko, Nikolai | Soviet aviator and air commander, who commanded Soviet Military Transport Aviation (VTA) for 1950-1969 |
| Slessor, John | One of the RAF's most brilliant thinkers, and a key advocate of promoting nuclear weapons as an instrument of deterrence during the Cold War |
| Spaatz, Carl | Squadron commander during World War I, commander of Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II, and first Chief of Staff of the US Air Force |
| Vershinin, Constantine | Soviet air commander who commanded the 4th Air Army during World War II and later became Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Forces |
[edit] Aircraft
| A-1 Skyraider | |
| A-12 OXCART | A high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft built for the CIA during the early 1960s, which was different from--but served as the basis of the design for--the later SR-71. |
| YF-12A | An interceptor variant of the CIA's A-12 reconnaissance plane developed for the US Air Force; three were built but the project was canceled before going into full production. |
| A-3 Skywarrior | Carrier-based bomber aircraft operated by the U.S. Navy starting in the mid-1950s |
| A-4 Skyhawk | Carrier-based attack aircraft operated by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps |
| AC-130 | A long-serving, heavily armed US Air Force close air support gunship based on the C-130 transport airframe. |
| An-2 | The largest single engine biplane ever built and one of the few biplanes designed after World War II, the An-2 was the first aircraft designed by the Antonov design bureau. |
| B-1 | American supersonic, low-level strategic bomber |
| B-36 Peacemaker | Heavy strategic bomber operated by the USAF from 1948 through most of the 1950s |
| B-52 Stratofortress | |
| CL-400 Suntan | Liquid-hydrogen fueled, high-altitude Mach 2.5 reconnaissance aircraft proposed to the US Air Force by the Lockheed Skunk Works in 1956 |
| EC-47 | A version of the C-47 transport specialized for SIGINT duties, particularly Radio Direction Finding, during the Vietnam War. |
| F-104 Starfighter | The USAF's first Mach 2 fighter, designed by Kelly Johnson's Lockheed Skunk Works |
| F-105 Thunderchief | American supersonic fighter-bomber designed for high-speed, low-altitude delivery of nuclear weapons that later saw extensive use in conventional bombing missions during the Vietnam War |
| F-117 Nighthawk | The world's first operational stealth fighter-bomber |
| F-16 Fighting Falcon | |
| F-80 Shooting Star | America's first operational jet fighter, used extensively for combat in the Korean War |
| F-82 Twin Mustang | A very long-range escort fighter designed during World War II and used in combat during the Korean War |
| F-86 Sabre | American Korean War-era jet fighter that was one of the most widely produced jet fighters in the West during the Cold War. |
| G.91 | |
| Mig-23 | Soviet swing-wing fighter aircraft |
| MiG-29 | Soviet fourth generation air superiority fighter |
| NB-36H | Variant of the B-36 bomber modified for testing an airborne nuclear reactor |
| PC-7 | Swiss-built two-seat turboprop trainer aircraft |
| SR-71 Blackbird | A high-speed (Mach 3), high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft based on the CIA's A-12, and operated by the US Air Force between 1964 and 1998. |
| T-4 | Prototype high-speed, high-altitude strike/reconnaissance aircraft developed during the early 1960s |
| Tu-4 | Soviet heavy bomber copied from the American B-29 |
| Vautour II | The first jet fighter-bomber natively designed and built in France, which served with the French and Israeli air forces |
| WS-125 | USAF proposal for a very long range strategic bomber powered by nuclear engines, created during the mid-1950s but canceled during the early design stages after being made unnecessary by rapidly developing ICBM technology |
| XB-70 Valkyrie | Prototype high-altitude, Mach 3 supersonic bomber developed in the mid-1960s for the USAF |
| XF-108 | A proposed but never built long-range, Mach 3 interceptor for the US Air Force intended to intercept supersonic Soviet bombers. |
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