S-75 Dvina
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The S-75 is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defence system. It is built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Following its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the most wid
S-75 Dvina in the National Museum of Military History, Sofia, Bulgaria
S-75 Guideline missile on display at the National Air and Space Museum
Rear view showing the solid-propellant booster nozzle, as displayed in Imperial War Museum Duxford
The S-75 in transport configuration
Martin RB-57D Canberra
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The Martin RB-57D Canberra is a specialized high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Martin B-57 Canberra tactical bomber, a license-built version of the English Electric Can
S-75 Dvina
…air defence systems in history. It scored the first destruction of an enemy aircraft by a surface-to-air missile, with the shooting down of a Taiwanese Martin RB-57D Canberra over China on 7 October 1959 that was hit by a salvo of three V-750 (1D) missiles at an altitude of 20 km (66,000 ft). This success was credited to…
Martin RB-57D-2 Model 796 53-3979 collecting atmospheric particle samples during Juniper nuclear bomb explosion; Operation Hardtack I Bikini atomic experiments, 22 July 1958.
Martin RB-57D 53-3977 shown in-flight with a Tactical Air Command B-57A bomber (black plane in this formation)
RB-57D 53-3982 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force
EB-57D of the 4713th DSES flying over a General Electric AN/FPS-6 radar