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Jun 10, 2024 · A U.S.-made Patriot air defense system was responsible for shooting down a Russian A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft over the Sea of Azov on January 14, according to a U.S. Army officer.
Jun 21, 2024 · Korean Air Lines flight 007, flight of a passenger jet that was shot down by Soviet air-to-air missiles on September 1, 1983, near Sakhalin Island, Russia, killing all 269 persons on board. It was en route to Seoul from Anchorage, Alaska, when it strayed more than 200 miles (322 km) from its scheduled path and entered Soviet airspace.
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Jun 11, 2024 · A Canadian judge has found Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) liable for the deaths of 176 passengers and crew on board a flight shot down by Iranian surface-to-air missiles.
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Jun 5, 2024 · U-2 Incident, (1960), confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
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- United States aircraft U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R.
- The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance...
- U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured while on a reconnaissance flight. On May 7, 1960, Nikita S. Khrushchev revealed that Powers had parachu...
- Francis Gary Powers was tried (August 17–19, 1960) and sentenced to 10 years’ confinement by the Soviets, but he was exchanged for the Soviet spy R...
Jun 4, 2024 · Summary: In late April, Ukrainian forces claimed their first strategic bomber kill, reportedly downing a Russian Tu-22M3. This significant loss marks a strategic win for Ukraine in the ongoing ...
Jun 18, 2024 · In mid-January 2024, Ukrainian forces said they had shot down a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft over the Sea of Azov. The loss was also reported by Russian military bloggers often used as...
3 days ago · Shootdown (1988), a telemovie starring Angela Lansbury, John Cullum, and Kyle Secor, was based on the book of the same title by R.W. Johnson, about the efforts of Nan Moore (Lansbury), the mother of a passenger, to get answers from the U.S. and Soviet governments.
