Blackburn Buccaneer
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The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy. Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially
A Buccaneer taking off from Faro, Portugal
Buccaneer S.1 at the 1962 Farnborough Airshow; the anti-flash white colour scheme is for the nuclear strike role
A Buccaneer S.2 launches from HMS Eagle; the S.2 featured more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines that allowed it to launch at its maximum take-off weight
Buccaneer S.2 with wings folding, a space-saving feature typically employed by carrier aircraft
Sverdlov-class cruiser
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The Sverdlov-class cruisers, Soviet designation Project 68bis, were the last conventional gun cruisers built for the Soviet Navy. They were built in the 1950s and were based on Soviet, German, and Ita
Blackburn Buccaneer
…part of the Hawker Siddeley Group, but this name is rarely used. The Buccaneer was originally designed in response to the Soviet Union introducing the Sverdlov class of light cruisers. Instead of building a new class of its own cruisers, the Royal Navy decided that it could address the threat posed via low-level…
Admiral Ushakov in 1981
A Tu-95 Bear overflies a Sverdlov-class cruiser 1975
Dmitry Pozharsky (1968)