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The RF-86F filled an important gap until more capable reconnaissance aircraft became available. The Sabre, originally built as a day fighter, was first modified for reconnaissance during the Korean War. USAF personnel custom-fitted cameras to about a dozen F-86 fighters (known as "Honeybuckets" or "Ashtrays") to replace the slower RF-80 for missions in northwestern North Korea -- "MiG Alley" -- and into Manchuria. After the Korean War, a handful of F-86Fs received more capable cameras under Proj

No forward firing armament - the Boulton Paul Defiant at The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands. This example is the only survivor. #ww2 #ww2history #WWII #defiant #polishairforce | Daniel J Wheatcroft

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Hawker-Beechcraft MC-12W Liberty This aircraft is temporarily in storage for the MiG 25 to be on display. The MC-12 was a civilian aircraft modified for military duty. In US Air Force service from 2009-2016, the unarmed Liberty collected information using a variety of sensors as an Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform. Flying at low and medium altitudes over Iraq and Afghanistan, MC-12 crews spotted more than 650 enemy weapons caches and aided in stopping more than 8,000

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29A The aircraft on display was an early model Soviet Air Force MiG-29A (S/N 2960516761) assigned to the 234th Gvardeiskii Istrebitelnii Aviatsionnii Polk (234th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment) stationed at Kubinka Air Base near Moscow. It was one of the six MiG-29s that made a good will visit to Kuopio-Rissala, Finland, in July 1986. This event marked the first public display of the MiG-29. TECHNICAL NOTES: Armament: One 30mm GSh-301 cannon; six air-to-air missiles (mixtu