Famous Air Battles in History

6 Famous Air Battles in the 20th Century On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers of the United States piloted the "Aviator 1" for the first time in the air, and this great invention brought the 20th century into the age of the airplane. When the aviation competition show is popular around the world, the young Italian officer Du Hei has begun to brew his theory of air power. 1911 in the Italian-Turkish war aircraft in the war for the first time, by the outbreak of the first world war, the total number of aircraft of the major warring countries has reached thousands of aircraft. 1914, October 5, two sergeants of the French air corps will be a machine gun on board the aircraft, and shot down a German aircraft. This was the first air battle in the history of world war and marked the expansion of the war into three-dimensional space. In the summer of 1939, the Japanese militarists began to try to conquer Sumeria and Mongolia, and the Nomenklatura incident was their carefully planned experiment, which resulted in a defeat by General Zhukov. On June 12, 1939, the Japanese launched an offensive, sending a powerful fleet of aircraft to raid the Soviet-Mongolian positions. The Soviets immediately deployed 60 N-15 fighter planes to intercept them. The sudden appearance of the Soviet fleet disrupted the unsuspecting Japanese air force formations. The air battle lasted for 8 hours and the Soviets lost 34 planes and shot down and wounded more than 50 Japanese planes. Norman air battle is the Soviet Union to participate in the Second World War on the eve of a larger scale air battle, not only a heavy blow to the Japanese air force, but also for the air force to support the ground troops in combat to accumulate valuable combat experience. In the Korean War, the United Nations Army led by the United States by virtue of its absolute air superiority, rampant in the airspace over North Korea, the Volunteer Air Force came into being, in the Cheongchon River to the Yalujiang River over the establishment of a "Mig Corridor", completely thwarted the arrogance of the United States Air Force. In this 10-month "war of strangulation", the Volunteer Air Force *** shot down 122 American planes, wounded 41, even the U.S. "air hero", "ace pilot" Major Davis was killed by a young man. Major Davis was also killed by the young Chinese pilots shot down and killed. U.S. Far East Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Williams had to admit: the U.S. Air Force was "fighting a formidable and skilled enemy," "the United Nations Army Air Forces air blockade of North Korea's railroad transportation activities completely failed." The Battle of Kuban was a large-scale air battle in the Soviet-German theater of World War II, in which the Luftwaffe suffered a severe setback in the Battle of the Meeting, thus losing air control over the southern flank of the Soviet-German theater.On the night of February 5, 1943, Soviet Marines launched a preemptive offensive and successfully landed on the southern flank of the Kuban Peninsula, seizing the landing field and thrusting themselves across the southern flank of the German defense line. The Germans were terrified, on April 17th, four infantry divisions, 2.7 million people in a large number of aircraft support, the Soviet landing site named "small land" launched a frantic attack. The first round of the Battle of Kuban was fought on land, at sea and in the air, with the air battle being the most intense. The Luftwaffe's 4th Air Force put nearly 1,000 combat planes into this small space, bombing the landing site and supporting the infantry. The number of Soviet planes also increased to more than 900. During the 2-month air battle at Kuban, the Soviets flew 35,000 sorties and shot down more than 800 German planes, greatly weakening the German air power. The Soviet Air Force seized control of the airspace on the southern flank of the Soviet-German battlefield, paving the way for the further seizure of control of the airspace on the entire Soviet-German battlefield. After Hitler swept through Western Europe with the Blitzkrieg, he formulated a "Sea Lion Plan" for the invasion of Britain and decided to launch a large-scale air offensive first, aiming at eliminating the British Royal Air Force and destroying its defense system, in preparation for the landings on the sea, which led to the largest air battle since the beginning of the Great War. The Luftwaffe was seriously frustrated in the air war in Britain, and was forced to give up the "Sea Lion Program". On August 15, Germany deployed 520 bomber sorties and 1,270 fighter sorties to attack the main targets in Britain. Over the south of England, the British Air Force's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters and the German army's 600 bombers launched a large-scale air battle unprecedented in the history of the world war. The British planes used the tactic of separately pinning down the bombers behind the temple, causing the German bombers to flee in a state of confusion. Infuriated, Hitler carried out a number of blitzkrieg air raids on London in quick succession. In 1940 July to October "Battle of Britain" in the most intense four months, the British **** loss of combat aircraft 915. But Nazi Germany lost 1,733 aircraft, the first serious setback since the start of the Second World War. The Isle of Man War and the Lebanon War, which took place in 1982, were watershed events in the history of modern warfare, marking the entry of warfare into the era of high technology. In the Arab-Israeli war in Lebanon, especially the air war in the Bekaa Valley, the most attention of soldiers. 9 June 1982 morning, the Israeli air force released the unmanned aircraft to lure Syria to launch missiles; Bekaa Valley Syrian army radar captured the Israeli air force "aircraft", with the commander's order, the SAM-6 missiles fired at the Israeli air force again and again. After the Syrian Army radar in the Bekaa Valley had captured the IAF "airplane", the SAM-6 missiles were fired at the IAF "airplane" again and again on the orders of the commander. At that moment, 90 F-15 and F-16 fighter jets and F-4 and A-4 bombers of the Israeli Air Force launched a fierce attack on the SAM missile positions in the Bekaa Valley, and in a few moments, 19 SAM missile positions were reduced to rubble. Syria immediately took off 62 MiG-23 and MiG-21 fighters to counterattack the Israeli attack formations over the Bekaa Valley. However, the Israeli Air Force took precautions against this and achieved a record of shooting down 30 Syrian aircraft without losing a single one of its own in the air battle. In the Bekaa Valley air battle, the Israeli Air Force, without damaging a single aircraft, destroyed 84 Syrian aircraft. Since then, the air war into a high-tech era, the world air war history opened a new page.

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