Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed...
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The Zeppelin Rammer (German: Rammjäger) was a design proposal by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin intended to use aerial ramming against the allied bombers attacking...
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Marinos Mitralexis (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
World War II credited with 5 aerial victories. He gained fame when he managed to bring down an enemy bomber by ramming its tail, on 2 November 1940....
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Yekaterina Zelenko (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Zelenko actually committed an aerial ramming, pointing out major discrepancies in the accounts describing her alleged ramming. Her first nomination for the...
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case of actual use, a "special detachment" unit dedicated to desperate aerial ramming tactics, known as Sonderkommando Elbe. In August 1944, a requirement[clarification...
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a hard object and enhance the momentum of the impact significantly. Aerial ramming – In military aviation, deliberately causing a mid-air collision to...
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Amet-khan Sultan (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
came to be teased by several of his fellow pilots for ramming his plane upwards instead of ramming downward and smashing only the landing gear of the plane...
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includes people with the given name and surname Taran, Russian term for aerial ramming in wartime A Welsh god, associated with the Gaulish Taranis Rutilus...
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down heavy bombers by ramming them in mid-air. Its sole mission took place on 7 April 1945, when a force of 180 Bf 109s managed to ram 15 Allied bombers,...
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Nikolai Gastello (category Pilots who performed an aerial ramming)
Presaizen was never awarded a Hero for the confirmed hit to this day. Aerial ramming "ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА --[ Мемуары ]-- Скрипко Н.С. По целям ближним и...
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