Bomber

Type markings of American military aircraft between 1939-1945

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In 1939, there were two aircraft type marking systems in the United States Armed Forces, Army and Navy. Thanks to this, it happened that the same aircraft received both designations. In addition, aircraft manufacturers also used their own internal type designation systems. Army Air Forces The Material Division, renamed the Air Material Command from 1942, … Read more

Code designation of aircraft according to NATO

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The North Atlantic Alliance has used a precisely defined code list for the cataloging and easier identification of weapon systems of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc countries and other countries, which was introduced in 1954 by the ASCC in order to unify aeronautical terminology. Aircraft technology has been assigned passwords according to a simple … Read more